environment

The urbanist fixation with new car services such as Uber and Lyft can seem paradoxical. Why is it good for the environment and for cities to increase the number of cars for hire on our roads? The same could be…

In the future, society will have to pay for each puff of carbon emissions emitted today. And the bill from the damages–from rising seas and the spread of diseases–is going to cause sticker shock.   Critics of strong national climate…

Continued population growth and industrial expansion is having a major impact on food, water and energy supplies. In the early 2000s, there were six billion people on Earth. By 2030, there are an additional two billion, most of them from…

If current trends continue, we’ll be dealing with three times as much waste by the end of this century as we are now, warns the World Bank. One solution is to treat waste as a resource—a solution that could also…

In the fall, PJM, the largest grid operator in the world, serving 60 million customers across 13 Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, issued the preliminary results of a major wind integration study. The final results of the study were released…

From an energy perspective, Hawaii is unique. Located in the middle of the Pacific, the Aloha State runs on imported oil. But its island environment—from sunny days to active volcanoes—also holds the keys to a future powered by renewable energy.…

Dubai aims to cut energy consumption by 20 per cent by 2020, as it enforces an energy-efficient building project, a government executive said yesterday.   Buildings use 70 per cent of the energy that we produce,” said Abdulla Mohammed Rafia,…

SINGAPORE — Every five years, the United States National Intelligence Council, which advises the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, publishes a report forecasting the long-term implications of global trends. Earlier 2013 it released its latest report, “Alternative Worlds,” which…

International environmental organization Greenpeace is putting pressure on eight luxury fashion brands to revise their production processes after finding toxic chemicals in their apparel and accessories.   learn more in luxury daily  Greenpeace urges luxury fashion brands to clean up…

The World Resources Institute found that 37 countries face “extremely high levels” of baseline water stress, in the first such country-level water assessment of its kind, according to the global research organization.   learn more in business insider  This Map…