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Why Coal Shortages in Asia Might Be Good News for Clean Energy
By Amy Gunia
Prince Harry, Meghan Join New York Investing Fund as ‘Impact Partners’
By Saijel Kishan / Bloomberg
Inside the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Future CEOs
By Katie Reilly
How Australia Could Become a Green Energy Superpower
By Amy Gunia
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CEO of Insect-Farming Company Ynsect on Mealworms as Meals
Ynsect’s powdered protein is currently used in pet food, fish meal and even as an ingredient in burger patties and pasta in parts of Europe
By Eben Shapiro
September 26, 2021
Prince William Unveils Earthshot Finalists
Five winners will be chosen from the 15 finalists, and each will receive a grant worth £1 million ($1.4 million)
By Sylvia Hui / Associated Press
September 17, 2021
I Tried Lab-Grown Fish Maw. Here's Why It Could Help Save Our Oceans
I'm an avid surfer and a certified scuba diver, and spending so much time in the water means that I'm keenly aware of the impact that human activity is having on the ocean ecosystem. It...
By Amy Gunia/Hong Kong
September 17, 2021
Cities Have Firefighters and Trash Collectors. As the Climate Breaks Down, Do They Also Need Resilience Corps?
When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in early September, Tonya Freeman-Brown made the difficult decision to stay in the city. The 53 year-old and her family sheltered in an old brick hotel in the downtown...
By Ciara Nugent
September 10, 2021
How Extreme Heat Hurts Jobs and the Economy
By driving down productivity, extreme heat could cost the U.S. economy $500 billion by 2050, per an Aug. 31 report by the Atlantic Council
By Ciara Nugent
August 31, 2021
California's Wildfire Problem Could Be Solved by a Few Legal Changes
Some aspects of the crisis might be fixed with a paper and pen
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 26, 2021
Auto Workers May Be Left Behind As Industry Shifts Green
The AFL-CIO estimates that 25-30% of auto-making jobs could disappear in the industry’s transition
By Justin Worland
August 11, 2021
American Agriculture Almost Ruined My Little English Farm
English shepherd James Rebanks grew up admiring American agriculture. Now he's trying to save his farm from that model
By James Rebanks
August 5, 2021
Vermont Is Remaking Its Power Grid to Fight Climate Change
'We have to move faster as an industry'
By Alejandro de la Garza/Panton, Vt.
July 26, 2021
Will Green Energy Be Fairer to Indigenous People?
In Australia, development has sometimes been undertaken without support from local communities. But a $75 billion green energy project has set out to change that dynamic.
By Amy Gunia
July 16, 2021
City Heat is Worse if You’re Not Rich or White. The World’s First Heat Officer Wants to Change That
Black and Hispanic residents of U.S. cities are around twice as exposed as white people to the “urban heat island effect”
By Ciara Nugent
July 7, 2021
A/C Feels Great, But It’s Terrible for the Planet. Here’s How to Fix That
For the past few days, a heatwave has glowered over the Pacific Northwest, forcing temperatures in the region to a record-breaking 118ºF. Few people in the region—neither Americans nor Canadians—have air-conditioning. Stores sold out of...
By Eric Dean Wilson
June 30, 2021
Can Barcelona Fix Its Love-Hate Relationship With Tourists After the Pandemic?
Before last year, Martí Cusó didn’t like to linger in the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the neighborhood where he has lived all his life. It was impossible to sit on a bench or play...
By Ciara Nugent
June 9, 2021
Can Airlines Preserve Emission Reductions as Travel Rebounds?
Travel restrictions imposed across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic forced airlines to plead for government bailouts and lay off staff, while some folded entirely. There was one silver lining, though: a huge temporary drop...
By Ciara Nugent
May 17, 2021
Why Greening Your 401(K) Isn't As Easy As It Should Be
Blame a tiny parting gift from the outgoing Trump Administration back in December 2020
By Aryn Baker
May 12, 2021
The Empire State Building's Green Retrofit Was a Big Success
Underneath the Empire State building, a maze of pipes, gauges and steel valve wheels that comprise the building's chiller plant look as if they might have remained unchanged since President Herbert Hoover turned on the...
By Alejandro de la Garza
May 10, 2021
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Come to the U.S
They're intended as a population control tool, but some locals in the Florida Keys are furious over the project
By Alejandro de la Garza / Florida Keys, Fl.
May 9, 2021
How Kenya Copes with Thousands of Displaced Climate Migrants
When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the way life used to be. So it comes as something of a surprise that at 38, he is now the one...
By Aryn Baker/Kampi Ya Samaki, Kenya
April 22, 2021
The Urgent Need to Change the Language We Use to Talk About the Climate Crisis
Forty years ago, as I was leaving my friend’s house to throw a baseball outside, his father stopped us for inspection. “Where are you going?” Peter’s father asked. “When will you be back?” And most...
By John Freeman
April 21, 2021
Judith Butler: To Save the Earth, Dismantle Individuality
However differently we register this pandemic we understand it as global; it brings home the fact that we are implicated in a shared world. The capacity of living human creatures to affect one another can...
By Judith Butler
April 21, 2021
Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like
The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more...
By Naina Bajekal
April 20, 2021
We Must Hold Companies Accountable for Climate Irresponsibility
In an earlier era, green referred to grass and trees and jealous eyes. But over the past half-century, green has taken on a life of its own. The Green movement deals with the collisions and...
By William Nordhaus
April 20, 2021
Automakers Are Going All In on Electric Pickups. Will Anyone Buy Them?
'Do you think anybody really wants an EV pickup truck?'
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 16, 2021
Could Eating Insects Help Save the Planet?
If human beings could learn to add insects to their dinner plate, it would help save the planet
By Aryn Baker
February 26, 2021
Underwater Noise Pollution Is Disrupting Ocean Life—But We Can Fix It
A new report finds noise pollution can be just as harmful to the ocean environment as other kinds of pollution, but the damage can be reversed
By Aryn Baker
February 5, 2021
How China Could Change the World By Taking Meat Off the Menu
China is on the cusp of a plant-based protein revolution
By Charlie Campbell/Shanghai
January 22, 2021
A Chef's Quest to Harvest Rice From the Sea
Chef Ángel León wants to change the way we feed the world
By Matt Goulding
January 9, 2021
UN Emissions Report Says World is Behind on Commitments
Dense U.N. reports may not make onto anyone’s must read list for the holidays, so think of the United Nations Environment Program’s 2020 Emissions Gap survey as a warning letter from Santa, on behalf of...
By Aryn Baker
December 9, 2020
The Ocean Farmers Trying to Save the World With Seaweed
In a cove in Bamfield, a coastal community in British Columbia, Canada, Louis Druehl steers his boat, The Kelp Express, a mile along the mountainous coastline. For 51 years, this boat has taken Druehl to...
By Mélissa Godin
September 4, 2020
This Town Wants to Be the Country’s Most Sustainable
'Babcock Ranch will exemplify what it means to be a town of the future'
By Justin Worland
April 28, 2016
What Happened When I Realized My Cheap Clothes Were a Global Problem
'What I can't rationalize is being a part of a business that produces tens of thousands of dresses a month in China that are hurting the world we live in'
By Yael Aflalo
March 28, 2016
Report: Plastic Pollution in the Ocean Is Reaching Crisis Levels
Plastic has infiltrated the ocean's ecosystem, from plankton to whales.
By Claire Groden / Fortune
October 1, 2015
Food Industry Experiencing 'Tectonic Shift'
“This thing is continuing to move, and you better get on board with it or you’re going to get left behind”
By Beth Kowitt / Fortune
September 28, 2015
Watch How Researchers Are Ensuring the Future of America's Livestock
"We are losing breeds at an estimated rate of one per month on a global scale"
By Julia Lull
September 15, 2015
20 Delicious Bug Recipes from Chefs
Bug appetit! Here's how Rick Bayless and Curtis Stone like their insects
By Mandy Oaklander
April 22, 2015
This Is the App You Need to Download for Earth Day
It lets you keep a log of your daily energy consumption and tells you how to reduce it
By David Stout
April 21, 2015
Vatican to Host Summit on Climate Change
The move is part of Pope Francis's environmental strategy
By Sarah Begley
April 16, 2015
Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 11
1. Special collaborative courts focus on rehabilitating troubled veterans. They're working. By Spencer Michels at PBS Newshour 2. PayPal runs a dead-simple microlending program that helps small businesses grow. By Michelle Goodman in Entrepreneur 3....
By The Aspen Institute
March 11, 2015
Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 10
1. How do we convince Americans that justice isn’t for sale — when in 39 states, it is? By Sue Bell Cobb in Politico 2. It took pressure from customers and investors to make corporations...
By The Aspen Institute
March 10, 2015
Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 22
1. Want to improve your bottom line? Diversify your workplace. By Joann S. Lublin in the Wall Street Journal 2. Journalism shouldn’t be a transaction for communities. A local news lab can make it transformational....
By The Aspen Institute
January 22, 2015
You Won't Believe the Source of the World's Most Sustainable Salmon
Hint: it's not the open sea or a Norwegian fjord
By Josh Schonwald
November 18, 2014
Tesla Awards 'Gigafactory' Deal to Nevada
6,500 jobs to be created in Reno
By Helen Regan
September 5, 2014
Giant Floating Duck Proposed to Bring Green Energy to Copenhagen
The unique structure could theoretically provide the environmentally conscious city with solar energy and hydropower
By Nolan Feeney
August 3, 2014
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