The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.

Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

The wood and plastics industry prefers Green Globes and is designing laws around it. Paging Jerry Yudelson.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

Innovative model brings fresh produce and jobs to areas and people in Chicago that need it most

Decommissioned buses are getting a second useful life as mobile shelters for Honolulu's homeless.

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.

The SolPad Mobile device offers a scaled-up solar charging and battery solution for both home and off-grid applications.

The Lancey electric space heater allows users to charge its battery during off-peak hours and use the electricity for heating during peak demand periods.

The bookcase was designed on a napkin because "Ideas are perishable"

Forbes reports on how General Motors is recycling or reusing "90 percent of its manufacturing waste."

Inspired by theater set design, this versatile volume holds storage and other hidden furniture.

But maybe he should.

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.

Not in the ocean. Below it.

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.

A new study looks at how AVs are part of a much bigger picture of how we get around.

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.

We are wasting too much time, energy and money on autonomous vehicles. We know what to do and it's not AVs.

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

A measure that would remove roughly $6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once-heralded alternative fuel. It

The Double Pyramid is an innovative way of portraying how the ecological footprints of our food compare to their nutritional value.

Art Works For Change is using a unique online exhibit to inspire change through storytelling, including 'featured tours' of the galleries by leading eco-organizations.

This could be why so many people ignore global warming.

The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.

"A Jewish ecology is 'not

It's a moveable feast of cheaper, cooler, greener electricity for building blockchains.

Want to do something really different for Thanksgiving this year? Come have an organic dinner on the lawn of Monsanto's World Headquarters and watch the latest show from Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.

Melinda Hanson talks to TreeHugger about taking back the streets.

One of the big beefs with Energy Star for housing is that all it cared about was energy; beat the standard code by 15% and you got it. No matter that the best way to make a house efficient is to make it tight, leading to all kinds of air quality

Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the

A tropical skyscraper by WOHA and Patricia Urquiola is wrapped in a vine-covered sunscreen.

School strikes, non-violent direct action, office sit-ins. It feels like something might be building.

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PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

You might want to rethink that dream house by the ocean.

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.

The Norwegian Consumer Authority thinks the fast fashion company is misleading shoppers with its so-called Conscious Collection.