Tag: Sustainability
Buildings grown by bacteria — new research is finding ways to...
Wil Srubar, University of Colorado Boulder
Buildings are not unlike a human body. They have bones and skin; they breathe. Electrified, they consume energy, regulate...
What is ‘green’ dry cleaning? A toxics expert explains
Joy Onasch, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The winter holidays are a busy time for many businesses, including retail stores, grocers, liquor stores – and dry...
Don’t stress about what kind of Christmas tree to buy, but...
Bert Cregg, Michigan State University
Environmentally conscious consumers often ask me whether a real Christmas tree or an artificial one is the more sustainable choice....
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom lin
Joanne Burgess, Colorado State University and Edward Barbier, Colorado State University
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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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
