The pursuit of endless industrial growth is chewing through our living planet, producing poverty and threatening our existence. The new Sustainable Development Goals fail to deal with this.
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Almost everyone wants to throw out less food. The good news is that even something as simple as organising your fridge into zones for different food types can stop your bin filling up.
Changing habits and pollution concerns are calling time on our love affair with cars. But this doesn’t have to be the end.
Air conditioning alone won’t make global warming more bearable – architects must reinvent the window.
The UN’s lofty Sustainable Development Goals will fall flat without more attention to how the many interested parties work together.
Tourists seeking to make voluntary work part of their holidays have helped build a sizeable industry which is now open to sharp criticism.
As Obama travels to Africa, it’s a reminder of how people and communities need to play a bigger role in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Buen Vivir is a concept and practice influencing politics and communities across South America. It involves a radically different way of thinking about collective wellbeing and sustainable living.
A disappointing end for one of the UK’s flagship environmental schemes.
China’s formal climate target shows that the world’s largest greenhouse emitter is determined to green its economy on an unprecedented scale - and that it can bring the rest of the world along for the ride.
How can we live within the means of our planet? Almost all environmental literature grossly underestimates what is needed for our civilisation to become sustainable.
There is a long road to travel before South Africa’s scientists live up to the grand expectations to encourage solutions to the country’s problems and boost the economy.
The outcry over the government’s plan to allow wood burning from native forests under the revamped Renewable Energy Target belies the fact that woodchips can be useful and sustainable if harvested responsibly.
The UN’s ambitious education program must be extended to the most marginalised and disadvantaged.
Being time-poor makes it harder to be green, says a study which shows that people who work long hours are more likely to fall short on taking real action to address their environmental concerns.
Monocultures - vast expanses of a single crop - may look pretty, but mounting research shows they are likely bad for environment. And in turn that’s bad news for farms as well.
One of the biggest ironies in the history of bottled water is the role that the soft drinks industry has had in its growth.
The Milan Expo is themed around food and sustainability. But the reality of the world’s fair is a hyped up consumerism that’s far from sustainable.
Flake is great with steaming hot chips. But what fish species is it, and is it sustainable? In Australia, it’s mainly gummy shark, which is a sustainable choice. But beware poorly labelled imitations.
Across the western world, the distance people travel is starting to fall. That’s a good thing, for us and the environment.
Top contributors
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Architectural Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Western University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral researcher, TU Wien
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Professor, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Winnipeg
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
