Tag: Sustainability
A Great Lakes pipeline dispute points to a broader energy dilemma
Douglas Bessette, Michigan State University
A deal involving an aging oil pipeline in Michigan reflects the complex decisions communities across the country need to make...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here’s what happened
Andrew Spicer, University of South Carolina and David Graham Hyatt, University of Arkansas
What a difference the birth of a granddaughter can make.
For Lee...
Yes, humans are depleting Earth’s resources, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell...
Robert B. Richardson, Michigan State University
Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the global environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, the world economy has...
As the Trump administration retreats on climate change, US cities are...
Katherine Levine Einstein, Boston University; David Glick, Boston University, and Maxwell Palmer, Boston University
Despite almost universal scientific consensus that climate change poses a growing...
To succeed, large ocean sanctuaries need to benefit both sea life...
Rebecca Gruby, Colorado State University; Lisa Campbell, Duke University; Luke Fairbanks, Duke University, and Noella Gray, University of Guelph
There is growing concern that the...
The world is facing a global sand crisis
Aurora Torres, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Jianguo "Jack" Liu, Michigan State University; Jodi Brandt, Boise State University, and Kristen Lear, University of...
Can technology help fashion clean up its act?
Suzanne Mancini, Rhode Island School of Design
Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy.
The fashion industry is no...
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Quit sugar, go paleo, embrace ‘clean food’: the power of celebrity...
Rebecca Charlotte Reynolds
Celebrities of nutrition evoke feelings of awe, envy and adulation in many of us. While the Gwyneth Paltrows of the group first...
