When you think of sustainability, you probably think of practices and sources of energy that don’t deplete the earth’s resources and/or make it easy to renew the earth or materials that are harvested ...

Different companies and people can legitimately have different views on what successful sustainability efforts look like, according to a senior director at one plastics industry trade group. "It's a ...

There are as many definitions of sustainability as there are people who care about the issue. Platitudes about environmental degradation almost always include the word “sustainability” and now it has ...

There are three elements to the definition of "sustainability." What is the resource, what is the area measured, and what is the time period measured. Resources that we want to be sustainable might be ...

An interdisciplinary team led by Senior Researcher Dr. Christoph Rupprecht (FEAST Project, RIHN) has revealed a new definition of sustainability that expands the concept to non-human species and their ...

Business operational sustainability is a method of evaluating whether a business can maintain existing practices without placing future resources at risk. Sustainability can refer to any one of a ...

Most people like "sustainability"—but few can agree on what it means. Four panelists from The Atlantic's Food Summit share their thoughts. Most people agree that "sustainability" is a good thing when ...

Whatever your stance on the UK's recent in/out referendum, I think we can agree that we are facing uncertain times and that businesses, as well as consumers, are nervous about what is next for us as ...

There is no straightforward, simple definition of what sustainability means to the construction industry. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of today without destroying ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Group Michelin is calling for industrywide consensus on a "common and stringent definition" of what makes a material sustainable. "Currently, there is no single definition for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Despite its name, the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef is not so much an ...