Green Business Stories

The Race to Reinvent Cement

The material that built the modern world is due for an upgrade. What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker
into a carbon sponge?

Greening the last mile of e-commerce

Could hubs, nudges, and EV night deliveries crack this surprisingly tough puzzle?

Fly farming is a mini-livestock industry poised to get big

Nascent industrial-scale insect farms are starting to dot the globe, with big livestock-feed and pet-food players such as Cargill, Skretting, Bühler, and Purina getting into the game.

Pollution and economic growth mostly move in sync. But some countries are bucking the trend

In a first, researchers use two decades of satellite data on pollution to show the potential to break the links between growth and emissions

Fairer access to credit could speed net zero in Africa by a decade

Previous studies have ignored regional differences in capital costs and painted a too-rosy picture of green energy development in Africa and elsewhere

A review of 100 studies crushes assumptions about conflict between profit and sustainability

Only two studies found negative effects on the bottom line from adopting sustainability practices

Erratic weather inhibits economic growth

An extra degree of day-to-day temperature variability reduces regional growth rates by 5% on average—a pattern seen across economic sectors

If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em.

A photo essay on the rise of edible packaging

The Circular Economy Made Real

In more and more pockets of the industrial landscape, the byproducts of one process are becoming the raw materials for another, trash is getting a useful second life, and waste is becoming a thing of the past.