Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Different companies and people can legitimately have different views on what successful sustainability efforts look like, according to a senior director at one plastics industry trade group. "It's a ...

I remember sometimes in 1980, the last year of the Jimmy Carter administration, when a couple of economists from the US Department of agriculture visited a few of my colleagues at the US Environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Businesses tend to value profit over people and planet. Climate change is forcing them to evolve. elenabs via Getty Images In his ...

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, first published in 1971, is a cautionary tale about greed and the fragility of the natural environment. It highlights the tension between what human consumers want and need, and ...

"Sustainability" and "resilience" have become buzzwords in recent years, but many people don't know what either term really means. As an economist who studies environmental issues, I believe an ...

The word “sustainability” invariably conjures up stereotypical images of greenery, fresh air, forests, oceans, mountains. Last week, I discovered its real, deeper meaning. In Malaysia, it means a ...

In the coming months, Nature Sustainability will be publishing a series of World Views from diverse scholars to stimulate further thinking and dialogue within the community. Despite the growing ...

True sustainability is reflected in our treatment of children—the future generation that we profess to cherish deeply. The term “sustainability” often evokes conventional imagery associated with ...

The term "sustainable" has become so elastic that, ironically, its continued effectiveness as an indicator of vital issues may not be sustainable. In modern usage, it rose as shorthand to describe ...