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Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart’s ambition project to bring sustainability to its millions of budget-conscious customers – a plan that began with the birth of a granddaughter.
Urban trees are literally made with the help of human breath – they turn the carbon dioxide we breathe out into the building blocks of plant growth. So your local trees have a piece of you inside them.
About 100 billion items of clothing are produced each year. That’s not sustainable fashion.
August 1, 2018 is ‘Earth Overshoot Day,’ a date coined by the nonprofit Global Footprint Network to publicize overuse of Earth’s resources. But their estimates actually understate the problem.
The environmental responsibility some businesses say they embrace is only a veneer.
The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots.
Despite promises, it’s hard to deny that the UK’s standards on agriculture, air pollution, and climate change are under threat.
The University of Melbourne is the first institution in Australia to have its nitrogen footprint calculated – it’s 139 tonnes per year, mainly because of food production, energy use and transport.
A new report reveals Australia is lagging behind most wealthy nations in working towards the globally agreed goals. It’s performing particularly badly on climate and environmental indicators.
Overtourism is driving a backlash among residents of many European cities, and concerns are rising in Australia, too.
The residents of Freetown Christiania have lived by degrowth values for decades.
How you prepare your coffee at home (and wash up the mugs) can have a big impact on its carbon footprint. So fill that kettle carefully, and only brew what you know you’ll drink.
As major supermarkets ‘ban the bag’, the spotlight is firmly on sustainability. Retailers are racing to promote their green credentials to shoppers.
Supply-chain experts see reliable data, STEM education and smarter regulation as essential for Australia to succeed in an increasingly automated world under pressure to be environmentally sustainable.
Waste byproducts from rice and glass combined with fungus can create a construction material with the potential to save lives and the planet.
Australia’s business-as-usual plan will not be enough to achieve our 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Once a niche market, sustainable finance is now expanding and accelerating, yet too few universities have committed their finance programmes to these issues. The time has come for change.
Health care produces 7% of Australia’s carbon emissions. And hospitals produce about half of this. Not to mention all the single-use items thrown away every day.
Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Architectural Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Senior Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University
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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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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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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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Professor, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Winnipeg
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
