The urban indoor vertical farm industry is at an important juncture.

On Nov. 4, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it planned to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 196 countries adopted in 2015. 

"Why don’t companies talk more about the good things they do for society?"

A major wildfire spread through Colorado, and I spent long hours locating shelters, identifying evacuation routes and piecing together satellite imagery.

On Jan. 1, the new International Maritime Organization regulation for reducing the sulfur content of marine fuels from 3.5 percent to 0.5 percent will take effect. With the change comes the need for inspections and enforcement to give the new rule "teeth" and force compliance.

Traditional recycling is the greatest example of modern-day greenwashing.

Last week was a downer for global climate policy.

Who would have thought the corporate sustainability profession would arise?

It is always difficult to encapsulate a 12-month period, let alone the 365 turbocharged 24-hour news cycles that seem to have become the new normal.

When asset management company Rheaply approached Washington University in St. Louis with a plan to make better use of campus equipment and supplies, Cassandra Hage, assistant director in the school’s office of sustainability, was already searching for "a way to circulate surplus property internally and also to connect with nonprofit organizations that might be able to utilize the university’s surplus."