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Sustainability
Why We Buy Things We Don't Need
By Alana Semuels
A Michelin Star Chef's Quest to Make China Embrace Vegetarianism
By Amy Gunia
Why the Pandemic Could Speed Up the Green Transition
By Chad de Guzman
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Go Green
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Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us
It keeps happening. Every summer, unprecedented heat surges through cities across the United States—in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; and in Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. Last week, a heat wave...
By Eric Dean Wilson
July 22, 2022
3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon
Not so long ago, Atlantic salmon was an abundant wild species. Born in the rivers of northeastern United States and Canada, after a couple years in freshwater they embarked on an epic migration, navigating 2,000...
By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
July 21, 2022
In the Face of a Climate Crises, There's a Better Way to Farm
Current approaches to producing food and other agricultural commodities used to make everyday essential products are contributing to ecosystem degradation, growing income inequality, a climate crisis, vulnerable farm communities and unequal access to healthy food....
By Sally Uren
April 15, 2022
Nutrition Labels Help Us Make Better Food Choices. Climate Labels Could Do the Same for Sustainability
Our existence relies on the food we eat and clean water to drink. We often take these things for granted. Yet climate change poses a threat to these most precious assets, an impact frequently neglected...
By Irene Heemskerk
April 15, 2022
If We Want a Sustainable Future, Financial Institutions Must Hold Each Other Accountable
Finance is indispensable to the achievement of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which address issues from climate change to inequality. Without capital, no business or government can hope to achieve these goals. At COP26,...
By Hiro Mizuno
April 15, 2022
Inside Finland's Plan to End All Waste by 2050
Finland believes education is key—getting every citizen to understand the need for a circular economy, and how they can be part of it
By Lisa Abend
January 20, 2022
We Must Come Together to Face Longterm Global Risks
As the world enters the third year of living through a pandemic, people are struggling. COVID-19 has caused a staggering 5.4 million deaths globally and led to an additional 53 million cases of major depression....
By Saadia Zahidi
January 11, 2022
Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food
Chef Massimo Bottura didn’t bring his chef’s jacket to the photo shoot. Which is just as well, considering that simple chef’s whites could never convey what this exuberant bon vivant has become since opening the...
By Aryn Baker
January 7, 2022
Chinese Scientists Make Animal Feed From Emissions: Report
The technology is said to involve synthesizing industrial exhaust into proteins
By Isabella Steger / Bloomberg
November 4, 2021
Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions Used to Go Together. In Some Countries, That's Changing
When negotiators from almost 200 countries gather in Glasgow from Oct. 31 for the most important U.N. climate summit since 2015, the priority will be agreeing on how fast each country should cut its carbon...
By Ciara Nugent and Emily Barone
October 29, 2021
Why We Shouldn't Write Off COP26 Before It's Even Started
As we approach the COP26 climate talks, I’m reminded of a Chinese proverb. The person saying it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. In other words, it’s easy to give up,...
By Paul Polman
October 27, 2021
How Climate Chaos Helped Spark the French Revolution
Historians have long observed the links between the natural environment and the fate of civilization. Natural emergencies like droughts, floods and crop failure regularly plunge people into chaos. Long term changes in the earth’s climatic...
By Mike Duncan
October 20, 2021
If the U.S. Spends Big on Climate, the World Might Follow
West Virginia has been at the center of a debate over the place of climate change measures in Joe Biden's domestic agenda. The results of this domestic policy fight will have a global impact
By Justin Worland
October 19, 2021
ECB Tells Banks to Map Climate Risk in Trading, Loan Books
The exercise also includes questions on how much revenue lenders generate from carbon-intensive industries as well as the volume of emissions they finance
By Nicholas Comfort / Bloomberg
October 18, 2021
Shutting Down Old Oil Rigs Is Harder—and More Expensive—Than it Sounds
The latest California oil spill has made clear it's time to shut down old rigs. That's easier said than done
By Alejandro de la Garza
October 15, 2021
Why Coal Shortages in Asia Might Be Good News for Clean Energy
Power crises in China and India that have caused blackouts and factory shutdowns are highlighting the region’s reliance on the world's dirtiest fossil fuel: coal. But some experts say the energy supply problems facing two...
By Amy Gunia
October 13, 2021
Prince Harry, Meghan Join New York Investing Fund as ‘Impact Partners’
The couple is joining $1.3 billion investing fund Ethic as “impact partners” in the hope of raising awareness around issues such as racial injustice, climate change and income equality
By Saijel Kishan / Bloomberg
October 12, 2021
Inside the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Future CEOs
Tima Bansal begins every new course with a cautionary statistic for her business school students. A 2008 study found that MBA candidates enter business school with more community-oriented values, but graduate with more selfish ones....
By Katie Reilly
October 8, 2021
How Australia Could Become a Green Energy Superpower
"Australia should aim for 500% renewables," he said during Thursday's episode of TIME100 Talks.
By Amy Gunia
October 7, 2021
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
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 and Elijah Wolfson
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
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