If sustainable plastic sounds like an oxymoron to you, you wouldn’t be the only one. But with the sleeping giant of public opinion beginning to awaken to the unsustainability of plastic around the world — roughly 40 percent of which is found in packaging — some innovators are starting to look for ways to avoid using the material.

Forget green. The next clean economy is blue. Blue, as in the deep blue sea.

There’s been a noticeable uptick lately in buzz around chemical recycling, and the promise of technologies that can fix the broken recycling system.

In our Eco Pulse 2018 survey, we polled consumers on a range of sustainability and environmental terms to gauge their level of awareness.

A growing number of homeowners in Germany are installing batteries to store solar power.

One night in October 2017, as a fast-growing wildfire burned near Napa, California, Pete Gavitte and his first mate, paramedic Whitney Lowe, flew continuous helicopter flights to save as many people as they could.

For many years environmentalists have urged the public to "think globally, act locally" — consider the health of the planet, then take action in your own community.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) doesn’t cut it any more. In fact, leader companies are putting distance between themselves and this approach. They don’t find it to be relevant to their growth or business models.

Roughly a year and a half ago, when the Dutch materials company DSM examined where its businesses stood in terms of circular practices, the company’s leadership wasn’t particularly happy with the process for doing so.

Last year was a landmark one for corporate renewable energy adoption and sustainability initiatives. However, these aren’t new endeavors.