Slow-moving, self-driving, electric shuttles could be one key way that people first encounter autonomous vehicles.

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian sociologist and media guru, changed my mind. The medium’s-the-message man. As I switched my major from economics to sociology in 1968, his vision of a "Global Village" was a North Star.

Thanksgiving may be uniquely American, but its core spirit was exported from harvest festivals stretching back for millennia. Its essence is being grateful for what one has, while noting a duty to share one’s good fortune.

The journey of a single food item from farm to fork can be rather treacherous, as it is picked, boxed, transported, sorted and reboxed on its way to our local grocery store and ultimately our kitchens.

As scientists concluded in the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, avoiding the worst effects of climate change will require an all-hands-on-deck transformation of the global economy.

Imagine a taxi service that picked you up (into the sky) and then dropped you off after an exciting journey, completely free of road works and traffic lights.

Last month we held our annual VERGE conference in Oakland, California, and heard from inspiring policy-makers, entrepreneurs, city leaders and sustainability executives on our main stage.

Climate change was on ballots across America last month. The results were mixed but leave room for increased climate action in the next two years and beyond.

As electric cars and trucks appear increasingly on U.S. highways, it raises the question: When will commercially viable electric vehicles take to the skies?

Business schools have a unique opportunity — or obligation — to educate leaders in sustainability. Fifteen years ago, Presidio Graduate School launched one of the first MBA programs in sustainable management, in which each course from finance to operations to marketing has triple-bottom-line sustainability at its core.