Sustainable Business
Corporations ‘should rethink’ how they treat freshwater
Corporations are learning to use water more sustainably, but they can still be doing a better job.
Warming weather could devastate future rice crops
Trouble is on the horizon for rice cultivation, warn researchers from Stanford University.
UN chief: Asian nations must kick their addiction to coal
"We need to stop the creation of new power plants based on coal in the future."
UK activists say fracking move is welcome but not enough
Exactly one year ago, a small earthquake brought Cuadrilla operations to yet another temporary halt in the UK, in compliance with then-enacted protocols that had just permitted the company’s Preston New Road fracking site to reopen. It was the latest
Ancient Aztec chinampas hold promise for urban agriculture
The Aztecs developed a water-saving agricultural system that is still used in Mexico today, and researcher Roland Ebel in the United States says there’s much that modern urban systems can borrow from the ancient techniques practiced in chinampa fields. The chinampas
Study: organic farming can drive up CO2 emissions
Organic farming, if adopted wholesale without a change in diets, would require millions more hectares of land.