The White House’s tariff seesaw is disrupting global supply chains and planning for many businesses. However, it’s also benefiting companies that don’t manufacture overseas, or at all. Tariffs are poised to boost the market for secondhand apparel, which is booming for the second year in a row, according to ThredUp’s annual Resale Report. Amid the […]
The Science Based Targets initiative has published a 132-page “initial consultation” document describing proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. SBTi’s methodology has become the de facto framework that guides companies in setting science-based targets for emissions reductions that seek to hold global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. The draft has […]
The profession of sustainability is changing. It always has been, though this moment feels more fraught than any before it. Sustainability professionals are being buffeted by countervailing forces: On the one hand, to accelerate progress in reducing emissions and in restoring or regenerating despoiled resources and ecosystems; on the other, to stand down, or at […]
In an effort to expedite the federal permitting process, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) rescinded its power to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), likely achieving the opposite result and further slowing an already long permitting review. The changes, announced via the Interim Final Rule released by CEQ, formally relinquished its […]
From my home in Los Angeles, I witnessed the devastation of wildfires earlier this year and how they underscored the rising urgency to modernize water infrastructure. A slew of dangerous chemicals were released into Los Angeles’ drinking water and stormwater systems during the wildfires, leaving many communities concerned about whether their water was safe to […]
Many Germans voted for change in the country’s February 23 elections, following a second consecutive year of economic contraction. In defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP), Friedrich Merz’s right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party secured 28.52 percent of the vote and 208 seats in the Bundestag. The election, though, will likely be […]
“This has the potential to be very big.” That was agriculture sustainability expert Andy Beadle’s conclusion after wrapping up the first insetting project executed by his employer, chemicals giant BASF. The project, which funded the production of crops with a dramatically reduced carbon footprint, is an example of the surge of interest in the use […]
We all know a night of good rest can be the difference between being ready to face the day or struggling to focus and counting down the hours until you can get back under the covers. But new research shows a stark inequality in good sleep for more vulnerable groups. Using a range of 0 […]
Moth holes and merlot stains usually send shirts to the trash, but these imperfections are leading to new creations at Eileen Fisher. The company’s Mended collection of blatantly repaired, patched or merged clothes is launching March 27, selling new white linen shirts concocted from pre-worn ones. These and other Mended items — which will only be […]
Google has introduced a carbon footprint calculator that lets advertisers measure the emissions associated with running campaigns on the world’s largest advertising platform. The resource, Carbon Footprint for Google Ads, is only available to a limited number of accounts but access will be broader in an unspecified future. The tool will help ad agencies track […]