Sustainability

The Take's C.C. Sullivan wonders why designers, architects and artists think that recycling is automatically an aesthetic success. It takes a bit more than just reusing old stuff to create good...

May 22, 2013 3:00am | By C.C. Sullivan

One major Bangladesh garment-buying retailer has sign a legally-binding factory safety agreement. Will others follow?

1 | May 13, 2013 9:31am | By Tyler Falk

In-flight Wi-Fi connections—when they're available—tend to be slow and expensive. The FCC introduced a proposal that could help speed up service and push prices lower.

May 10, 2013 9:02am | By Kirsten Korosec

HONG KONG -- Leisure farms just outside this gritty city cater to the weekend farmer.

1 | May 9, 2013 3:00am | By Vanessa Ko

A new generation of architecture students is marshalling their brains and muscle behind projects that make a real-world difference for the disadvantaged, disabled or displaced.

1 | May 8, 2013 3:00am | By C.C. Sullivan

The South African native is challenging the legacy rules of U.S. power generation and financing, seeking to make clean energy as cost-effective as electricity generated by fossil fuels.

6 | May 7, 2013 3:00am | By Heather Clancy

What do the stock market and brain trauma treatment have in common? Allow me to explain.

Sponsored | May 6, 2013 5:54am | By Charlie Schick

Four Harvard University women created a soccer ball that generates electricity for use in off-grid areas of the world. It is having a powerful impact.

11 | May 6, 2013 3:00am | By Jason Dearen

Daredevils piloting a solar plane will embark on the first transcontinental flight of its kind across the U.S. starting tomorrow

1 | May 2, 2013 7:50pm | By David Worthington

Researchers make the green case for ordering groceries from your computer.

6 | May 1, 2013 12:39pm | By Tyler Falk

Verizon's $100 million clean power project aims to do more than cut carbon emissions and boost its green street cred.

May 1, 2013 9:28am | By Kirsten Korosec

How two mayors of small towns in right-wing America are showing the way to energy and climate progress: through local action.

29 | May 1, 2013 3:00am | By Chris Nelder

A new self-sustaining building is now open in Seattle. See what sets it apart from other green buildings.

7 | April 24, 2013 4:00am | By Tyler Falk

There are few black architects in the pipeline, and fewer still with a high national profile. C.C. Sullivan looks at the latest news, which suggests a growing role for African-American designers.

35 | April 24, 2013 1:45am | By C.C. Sullivan

In a Nairobi slum, newly minted entrepreneurs run more than 160 public toilets and transform their waste into fertilizer -- and someday they'll turn it into electricity.

2 | April 22, 2013 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez Sherwood

Erring on the side of caution seems more important than boosting innovation or research by purchasing firms for many businesses.

April 22, 2013 1:39am | By Charlie Osborne

Here are a list of businesses that are trying to make a profit and a difference.

3 | April 17, 2013 9:28am | By Tyler Falk

Creating a renewably powered grid is easy compared to crafting a new regulatory framework that will make utility investors whole during the transition.

20 | April 17, 2013 3:00am | By Chris Nelder

MELBOURNE -- Part of a global network of coworking spaces, a thriving outpost in Australia is driving innovation through diversity.

April 17, 2013 2:30am | By Lieu Thi Pham

PARIS -- The city deploys sheep to explore eco-friendly, all natural urban landscaping that doubles as PR for a forgotten corner of the city.

4 | April 12, 2013 2:00am | By Bryan Pirolli