How do you balance “doing well” with “doing good” when it comes to raising money for startups? A new platform from MIT can help.

Pricing incentives can help match electric vehicle’s increasing electricity usage with power output.

New research points that building in harmony with nature improves employee health, attentiveness and productivity.

Four weeks into the job, Josh Stanbro, chief resilience officer of the city and county of Honolulu, discussed confronting the sustainability challenges confronting the city.”On Oahu, people recognize that there are direct and immediate threats from climate change,” said Stanbro. Forward-thinking Honolulu recently had voted to establish an office of resilience that tackles affordable housing, critical infrastructure and response to natural hazards associated with climate change and sea level rise.  

It’s been two decades since the launch of a book and a movement on harnessing nature’s designs to solve pressing environmental challenges. How — and where — is it going?

The furniture maker-turned-restaurateur partnered with tech companies Leanpath and Winnow to save thousands of tons of wasted food resources and euros.

The mission of the Gold Standard Foundation is to show that projects meant to mitigate global warming can go hand in hand with sustainable development.


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