This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When most people think about good design, they might think of an Eames lounge chair, an iPhone or Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture. Harmonizing functional perfection with a clean and timeless…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Melanie Anderson grew up in the West Texas Trans-Pecos area (Midland), part of the Chihuahua desert which is the largest desert in North America. The Midland-Odessa area, known as the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. University of Michigan students know a little something about how difficult it can be to get a resistant administration to stop investing in fossil fuels. It took years of demonstrating,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For 149 years, Americans have marked Arbor Day on the last Friday in April by planting trees. Now business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around 11 a.m. on April 3, an emergency alert flashed on residents’ cell phones in Manatee County, Florida. “Evacuate area NOW,” it read, according to a screenshot later published by the Tampa Bay…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent to the Russian Far East. Today they are endangered, with only about 4,000 tigers left in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Analysse Humaran and Gianna Hutton are 11th graders representing Miami Palmetto Senior High School in this year’s Aspen Challenge. Living in Miami, the climate crisis is already at their doorstep. Analysse and Gianna want…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We need to stop focusing on dates and numbers and actually accept and acknowledge the fact that we need to reduce our emissions right now. We can talk about 2030 or 2040…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In January, the World Economic Forum put climate change and related risks at the top of its long-term threat list, displacing old worries from cyberattacks to economic instability. Then a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On April 13, 2021, the ICLEI World Congress will host a session featuring innovative leaders from across the world on sustainability, equity, and issues citizens care about on a personal and global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enric Sala of the Pristine Seas project at the National Geographic Society and 25 other scientists from the US, Canada, France, Germany and Australia report in the journal Nature that they have devised a planning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Urgent change in how economies think, act and measure success is needed to protect and enhance global prosperity and the natural world, a major review commissioned by the UK government…