Big business needs to “ramp-up” its board-level understanding of built environment issues, such as dealing with problems related to carbon targets, a new report has warned....
All things are connected. This sentiment, which goes right to the heart of sustainability, was the central theme at a recent Intelligence Squared event. Water, Food,...
If the human race continues expanding, fuelling climate change, and using resources at its current rate, it will eventually need to colonise three more planets to...
Stephen Emmott, head of computational science at Microsoft Research, clearly and simply spells out some of the world’s most pressing problems in 10 Billion. Emmott has...
If you’re looking to broaden your knowledge of sustainability – or simply want a page-turner to read on holiday – any of these six essential reads...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are “failing the population challenge”, according to research from environmentalist and writer Jonathon Porritt and the charity Population Matters. Porritt argues that population...
Changing trends in the way households around the world stay together may have a huge, and so far unaccounted for, environmental impact, a new study has...
Ben Goldsmith, head of sales and marketing and a partner at WHEB, speaks to Jeremy Grantham, the chief investment strategist at GMO, about resource scarcity and...
TEDxLondon, with a theme of ‘City2.0’, sought to bring the issue of sustainable cities to the forefront. Speakers outlined how to deal with a growing urban...
Shell, Adidas, Statoil, Monsanto: are these companies among the most sustainable in the world? According to a recent ranking they are. Devised by Canada-based firm Corporate...
New research has found that just seven countries, including the UK, account for 63% of climate change. Relative to population size, the UK has pumped the...
The cities of tomorrow can learn from the example of Singapore by embracing density in order to be more resource efficient, says a new report. The...
A combination of rising global population, economic growth and climate change means that more than half of the world’s inhabitants will live in ‘water-stressed areas’ by...
Predictions that half of the British population will be obese by 2050 may actually be underestimating the scale of the problem, a new report has suggested....