The Institute on the Environment was founded on the insight that our world’s greatest challenges won’t be solved by working…
Across the country, public- and private-sector stakeholders have set ambitious goals for reducing energy emissions and investing in renewables. New…
It’s well known that meat has a high environmental impact, largely because of the amount of corn animals are fed,…
That different foods provide different essential micronutrients (such as calcium, vitamin A, and folate) isn’t news. But now we know…
New research from the University of Minnesota points to lawn fertilizers and pet waste as the dominant sources of nitrogen…
A service that combines sustainable-fuel delivery and waste pickup in Uganda, and proposal for an e-commerce hub tailored to the…
Adapted from a news release by Carolyn Shapiro and Basil Waugh, Communications Officer, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, basil.waugh@uvm.edu. Let’s…
Adapted from a news release by Robert Sanders, Media Relations, University of California Berkeley, rlsanders@berkeley.edu Writing in the journal Science,…
With a growing population, rapid urbanization and environmental degradation from economic development, China faces a number of complex, wicked problems.…
A team that created a soap molecule made from renewable materials has won the $10,000 first prize in the Dow…