Green Business Stories
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
Keeping Clothes Out of the Garbage
How close are we to the Holy Grail of sustainable fashion?
If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em.
A photo essay on the rise of edible packaging
Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data centers, and transit systems—in order to pull fossil fuels out.
The Problem with Making Nature Pay for Itself
Trying to make nature valuable has had a disappointing track record.
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
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?
In the sustainability race, the Olympic Games are lagging behind
No Olympics since 1992 scores high on all sustainability indicators, and the overall picture is middling at best
The race is on to build an AC unit that doesn’t cook the planet
There's a $1 million prize for anyone that can design a room air conditioner that costs no more than twice what a standard one costs and produces five times less greenhouse gas
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
