What's the best way to get people to want to buy products made from dying corn? Market them to the middle class as fancy and exclusive--just like Itanoní Flor del Maíz is doing with its gourmet tortillas in Mexico.READ»
It's not because large-scale farms are evil, per se, but the lack of crop diversity and farming knowledge that comes from massive farms of just a few crops could result in disastrous consequences.READ»
Author David Bornstein says that when it comes to covering social innovation, the media is doing it wrong. Instead of showing what's wrong in the world, how about showing how smart solutions can bring about change?READ»
Yesterday Aaron O’Connell stunned TED audiences with his
description of an experiment three years in the making that for the first time
showed quantum delocalization taking place at the level of a ...READ»
An emerging theme of the TED conference, which started today in Long Beach, CA, is the value of the tactile & embodied. Virtual reality has become a commodity; real reality is at a premium. READ»
The World Bank today announced a $3 million investment to create jobs and boost sustainable conservation through a community-conceived ecotourist resort.READ»
Three billion people burn wood for fuel every day. Trees fall in the Amazon for cattle ranching and in Indonesia for palm oil plantations. The death of forests is the second leading cause of global warming and an ecological ...READ»
One of the world's top management gurus is spending a lot of time these days thinking about trash. I spoke with author of The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge, because of his work with Starbucks on their pledge to provide recycling ...READ»
Solving climate change is a big challenge that will require cooperation and innovation on a global scale. Tokyo startup Fullcircle Innovations is taking on this challenge with its offerings at GreenITers.com and EcoAppsFree.com.READ»
Starbucks made headlines around the world last week for telling baristas to slow down. Now they aren't to make more than two drinks at a time, and they're to steam pitchers of milk and grind batches of coffee as needed instead of all at once.READ»
I think I'm the only person who moderated panels last week at both the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City and Opportunity Green, a green business conference in Los Angeles. While it may seem unfair to compare a gathering of ...READ»
What is a sustainable innovation? I had the pleasure of representing Fast Company among judges from Nike and IDEO at the Sustainable Brands Conference's second annual Innovation Open in Monterey, CA this week, and we had a lively ...READ»
A new photography show produced for the U.N.'s World Environment Day portrays Rwanda as a model of sustainable development where humans live and work in harmony with nature.READ»
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/4563942618_3927c99cf9.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="4303_300" />I'll be going back to beautiful Monterrey, California June 7-10 for the Sustainable Brands conference (Fast ...READ»
An aid worker from the European Commission holds a PDF printout from OpenStreetMaps.
The humanitarian relief effort underway in Haiti is proving the true potential of open source map building. Don't take my word for it, follow the ...READ»
Oil-Coated Ruddy Duck in the San Francisco Bay, by wolfpix, on Flickr
Earlier this month, the world's chief energy economist told the UK Independent that global oil production was likely to peak in 10 years, with a "global energy ...READ»
T. Boone Pickens has dropped his much-ballyhooed plan, chronicled in our pages, to build the world's largest wind farm, in favor of a handful of smaller wind farms scattered around the Midwest.
He cites many of the same factors that ...READ»
