Tag: sustainability
Software giant Microsoft hopes to become carbon neutral by tracking and self-taxing its carbon output and investing in clean energy and efficiency. ...
The movement for restaurants to feature more ingredients grown a virtual stone's throw from the kitchen is gaining in popularity. It has culinary schools teaching new skills and chefs learning new ways of planning menus and sourcing ingredients....
Popular retailers like Target, Costco and Walmart have started to sell fish labeled as certified sustainable. But there's disagreement on what these labels mean....
The 21st century race to create a zero-emissions vehicle mimics the scramble to develop engine technology in the 1900s....
The Pacific Ocean is filling with discarded plastic. One company wants to use that plastic to create recycled bottles....
After years of waiting and hoping, solar power is now affordable, and some solar power companies are cashing in. ...
Teams from around the world converged on Washington DC to compete in the Solar Decathlon, a competition to see who can build the most energy-efficient solar powered home....
Jeremy Seifert scavenged in dumpsters behind grocery stores and found perfectly edible food -- he started eating it and feeding his family with it -- even his pregnant wife....
Vertical farms could help solve environmental problems associated with agriculture in order to make cities more sustainable....
Intrepid architects from Copenhagen are turning a power plant into a man-made ski hill, and creating a new kind of 'hedonistic sustainability.'...
