]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/sustainability Blog Articles Tagged with 'sustainability' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190203?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability As you may have gathered, the idea of city-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 has gained a lot of steam here in Worldchanging's home base of Seattle. Our City Council has embraced it as a goal (though it's wrestling with the timeline) and some of our... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190203?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:54:21 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/190029?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability TAKE ACTION!Rainforest Action Network [search] is a key supporter of failed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] efforts to sustainably log tens of millions of hectares of primary and old-growth forests for lawn furniture, toilet paper and othe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/190029?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:43:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189985?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Earth Day is only six weeks away (April 22nd). Are you ready?While we all know that a commitment to sustainability goes beyond going green one day a year, Earth Day is the perfect opportunity to remind employees of your commitment, highlight progra... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189985?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189986?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability For anyone trying to explain what sustainability is to a semi-curious relative or a completely out of touch co-worker, there could hardly be a better place to start than Annie Leonard's twenty minute web video The Story of Stuff. The video features ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189986?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189995?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability In recent years, after the initial honeymoon of broader consumer interest in all things green, it's now settled squarely in the space of prove it to me. Yet proving something's greenness, sustainability, fair trade status, organic certification... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189995?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:02:45 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190206?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability by Warren KarlenzigLast post I covered some guiding principles for urban resilience planning in the face of climate change and diminishing resources (especially fresh water and oil). Considering these guidelines, what aspect of U.S. metrodevelopment ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190206?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:43:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190209?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine. Low carbon was seen to be at loggerheads with India's ambitious economic development agenda and was too controversial ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190209?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:46 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-the-future/189880?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability I'm honored to have been asked to serve on the advisory council for LAUNCH, a group looking to support innovative ideas for sustainability. Sponsored by NASA, the US Department of State, US Aid for International Development, and Nike(!), LAUNCH is in... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-the-future/189880?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:20 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/190181?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine. Low carbon was seen to be at loggerheads with India's ambitious economic development agenda and was too controversial... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/190181?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/eco-advantage-blog/190161?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability I must have done something wrong to someone today because I feel like I'm in some kind of surreal dream. The day started well with a great event hosted by Xerox in Dallas, talking sustainability with some leaders in the field. Then I ended up in tw... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/eco-advantage-blog/190161?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:35 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190215?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability It's understandably common for people working on bright green issues to be dispirited these days. We're currently living in the wake of the failure of climate talks in Copenhagen, the miring of climate legislation in the swamp of the U.S. Senate ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190215?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:35 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-home-building/190158?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Guest blogger, Dan Grifen, has written the following:The world is in a constant state of flux and the environment is no different. Lately, it seems as though flash flooding, earthquakes, and hurricanes are occurring all too often. The severity of th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-home-building/190158?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:53:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190217?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability A group of MIT nanotechnology researchers has discovered a new way of generating electricity:Like a collection of flotsam propelled along the surface by waves traveling across the ocean, it turns out that a thermal wave a moving pulse of heat ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190217?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:15:03 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/190184?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Over a third of the greenhouse gas emissions related to the consumption of goods in wealthy nations actually occur in developing countries, according to a new analysis by researchers with the Carnegie Institution. Annually, each person if the United ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/190184?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190193?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Over a third of the greenhouse gas emissions related to the consumption of goods in wealthy nations actually occur in developing countries, according to a new analysis by researchers with the Carnegie Institution. Annually, each person if the United ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190193?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189617?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability There are few areas of research in tropical biology more exciting and more important than seed dispersal. Seed dispersal the process by which seeds are spread from parent trees to new sprouting ground underpins the ecology of forests worldwide. I... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189617?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/189595?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability No form of energy not solar, wind, hydropower, obviously not coal or oil comes without environmental tradeoffs.One promising new energy source a vast supplies of natural gas, trapped in shale deep beneath the earth's surface is getting renewe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/marc-gunther/189595?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:34:50 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/189541?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability This little article focuses on my friend John Sheehan and his take on biofuels and land-use. He proposed reframing the issue in an interesting way: We need to not look at land use as a biofuels problem, we need to look at biofuels as (being part of)... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/189541?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:24:07 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189428?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability By Ryan WhisnantLast week I attended a panel hosted by the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan: Green Tech: How the Web and Information Technology are Empowering Sustainability. The panel featured Nick ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/189428?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:47:54 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189254?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Harry de Gorter and David R. Just Abstract The efficacy of alternative biofuel policies in achieving energy, environmental and agricultural policy goals is assessed ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/189254?rsstype=tag&tag=sustainability Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:06:02 -0500