Green Business Stories
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
Greening the last mile of e-commerce
Could hubs, nudges, and EV night deliveries crack this surprisingly tough puzzle?
Keeping Clothes Out of the Garbage
How close are we to the Holy Grail of sustainable fashion?
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.
Human waste is a terrible thing to waste
Off-grid energy production is becoming affordable for smallholders, restaurants, and even families—thanks to a startup’s innovative biodigesters that turn food and feces into carbon-neutral cooking gas, fertilizer, and hot water.
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
Can corporate greenwashing be proven empirically? Maybe.
In a first-of-its-kind global assessment, researchers found that having a sustainability board or an official climate-change initiative has little effect or even worsens a company's carbon emissions.
If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em.
A photo essay on the rise of edible packaging
Scientists take on food waste and fashion pollution—fabricating faux cotton and leather with fungi.
Bread-eating fungus spores produce natural fibers that can be treated to mimic cotton and leather, using far less water and energy than conventional materials.
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
