Sustainability

Food policy experts weigh in on the possibilities of individual diet choices and sustainable production methods.

The majority of logging companies, however, fail to protect their lands from unsustainable clear-felling practices and even fewer have systems to monitor and ensure such policies.

"Wild foods," or wild edible species, provide important nutrients for millions of people worldwide, but they were left out of a recent report on creating sustainable food systems.

To get on track to achieve sustainability goals, the report outlines a series of changes to the global systems of food production, energy, and waste management.

Four years ago, the meat industry killed efforts to include the environmental impact of the food we eat. New reports say the issue won't resurface in 2020.

Green New Deal detractors argue that the economic policies in the plan are extraneous. They're wrong.

A recent study found that, even after controlling for income and homeownership, the racial and ethnic disparities remained.

North Carolina has acutely felt the downside of a massive, environmentally damaging pork production industry, but a better model may be emerging.

With Congress at an impasse, sustainability advocates worry the farm bill could cut funds for conservation and give more to agriculture's biggest polluters.

Both companies have made big commitments to prove their eco-friendliness, but there's still debate over whether they will put the environment ahead of their bottom lines.

A new report from Greenpeace shows that brands and their suppliers are not abiding by their own pledges to only buy from sustainable producers of palm oil.

Commodity-driven deforestation is most responsible, with farming and forestry also playing a major role in the global tree cover loss.

A recent study illustrates the connection between consumer demand in the U.S. and increased furniture production in China, which is, in turn, fueling logging in Central Africa.

The author discusses his new book about the original architect of the North American landscape: the beaver.

In the era of climate change, do the current standards of environmentally sound building practices—developed in the late '90s—still hold up?

In Portugal, a group of environmentalists and social planners is trying to model a more ecological design for refugee settlements.

A new study asks: Can countries meet citizens' needs without over-consuming resources?

Because they can.

The United Nations' sustainable development goals have two critical problems: they contradict one another, and they focus on economic growth.

Founder Monica Jain sees an unsustainable industry that's ripe for technological disruption.

Today’s rising conservationists are at risk of being forced out of their career by trends, structures, and decisions they had no part in.

More readings on the fallacy of endless economic growth.

Safford is committed to applying her talents and work ethic to a noble and necessary goal: using policy to change the way we think about human existence.

The 26-year-old's social entrepreneurship centers around jackfruit, a large, green, studded fruit native to Southeast Asia.