The question of what wine to match with your Thanksgiving meal goes well beyond whether to pop a pinot or a cab franc.

In our consumer-focused culture, we often feel the need to buy our way out of a problem – and that’s a need that fast fashion brands have easily filled. Greenwashing has made it so that small changes ...

I remember sometimes in 1980, the last year of the Jimmy Carter administration, when a couple of economists from the US Department of agriculture visited a few of my colleagues at the US Environmental ...

Different companies and people can legitimately have different views on what successful sustainability efforts look like, according to a senior director at one plastics industry trade group. "It's a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The surprising thing about words is that they can be completely ineffective. Coming from a person ...

Businesses tend to value profit over people and planet. Climate change is forcing them to evolve. elenabs via Getty Images In his 2021 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the CEO and chairman of BlackRock, ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Group Michelin is calling for industrywide consensus on a "common and stringent definition" of what makes a material sustainable. "Currently, there is no single definition for ...

The term "sustainable" has become so elastic that, ironically, its continued effectiveness as an indicator of vital issues may not be sustainable. In modern usage, it rose as shorthand to describe ...

There are three elements to the definition of "sustainability." What is the resource, what is the area measured, and what is the time period measured. Resources that we want to be sustainable might be ...

At a breakfast meeting this morning with reporters, President Obama’s top economic adviser Austan Goolsbee maintained that the president’s budget proposal is “sustainable.” Goolsbee was asked by THE ...

True sustainability is reflected in our treatment of children—the future generation that we profess to cherish deeply. The term “sustainability” often evokes conventional imagery associated with ...