Environmental and sustainability writer, journalist. Founder of TDS Environmental Media and the PlanetWatch Group. Member, Society of Environmental Journalists and Pacific Media Workers Guild
Ways to Offset Your Carbon Footprint - Means and Matters
You can't reduce your carbon footprint without measuring it. Knowing your carbon footprint can help you make better purchasing decisions. When you can't reduce, you can offset. This article for Bank of the West introduces a new checking account that keeps consumers informed and offers ways to offset what can't be reduced.
Until There Are No More Left
The swim bladders of the Totoaba, a rare species of large fish found in rapidly dwindling numbers in the Sea of Cortez, sell for upwards of $100,000. An illicit market built on human imagining — a raw delusion of the medicinal properties of the Totoaba’s bladder.
Pollinator Habitats Are Declining Worldwide, But Business Can Help
This article series is sponsored by General Mills and produced by the TriplePundit editorial team.
Bees are necessary to pollinate plants, including crops we use for food, but bee populations are in decline worldwide. For well over a decade, colony collapse disorder (CCD) has shaken the agricultural sector and challenged scientists. How business can step up and
Ingersoll Rand: How a Legacy Company Stretches the Limits of Sustainability
Image: Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz (right) presents Ingersoll Rand CEO Michael W. Lamach with the World Environment Center's Gold Medal Award. Old-school sustainability reimagined for today
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Expansion Scores Platinum LEED Certification
The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is an excellent example not only of a resource-efficient building but also how LEED can foster biophilic design in the built environment.
What Design Can Do and the Climate Action Challenge: The Product of Ideas
hen Amsterdam-based research and technology initiative What Design Can Do laid down its challenge in May 2017, they minced no words: “Climate change is real and it's happening." But that doesn't mean we can't find a way to mitigate its impact. Here's what smart, visionary changemakers are doing to help in the fight against climate change.
Business as a Tool for Compassion: LifeStraw Brings Safe Water to One Million Children in Kenya
LifeStraw "Follow the Liters" program is one example of the "humanitarian entrepreneurship" business model driving the mission of Global Health company Vestergaard. More than 1 million schoolchildren in Kenya now have access to safe drinking water. And it's not just a "one-off".
Eliminating Food Waste: Dupont’s Tyvek a Critical Link in the Chain
I had a bowl of strawberries for breakfast this morning, which sounds unremarkable, even in the middle of February. Thanks to growers in Florida, Mexico, and South America, I can sit at my breakfast table in the middle of a California winter, munching away on strawberries.
But for every strawberry delighting my palate, another is lost, wasted somewhere on the long road from farm to table. Of the 1.3 billion tons of food that is wasted every year, fruits, vegetables, and tubers have the highes...
Agriculture in the Anthropocene: the Challenge is the Solution
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
-Winston Churchill, The River War
The world’s farmers not only must feed a growing population, but also cope with a rapidly changing climate.
Given the urgency of the climate crisis, agriculture is a big problem. Is it? Or is there another way to frame our outlook?
The Sea is Confused
A Harbormaster’s Reflection on a Life Watching the Sea
"The sea is confused." One of the observations from Monterey's long-serving harbormaster Steve Scheiblauer on his time serving Monterey Bay Fisheries.
Mutually Secured Destruction and the Circular Economy
The corporate waste stream can be complicated. Recalled products, expired pharmaceuticals and electronics containing personal data are just some of the waste items that can give companies pause: They can’t be reused or resold, but landfilling them wastes resources. That’s where secure destruction comes in — and it can even create clean energy.
Design for a Better World: Autodesk Doubles Down on Its Commitment
TriplePundit chats with Lynelle Cameron, VP of sustainability for Autodesk and CEO of the Autodesk Foundation, about biomimicry, Donald Trump and designing for a better world.
Is Energy Independence a Cover for Coal?
Of all the actions and orders in Trump’s 80+ days in office, none may have more far-reaching or long-lasting impact than the proposed “Energy Independence” executive order. TriplePundit obtained an early draft of the order. Tom Schueneman reports.
Measuring the Circular Economy : Putting Principles into Practice
The risks inherent in a globalized linear economy are manifest. Resource and economic shocks reverberate across the globe. This increased vulnerability comes at a price.
Pollinator Restoration : Häagen-Dazs Makes the Connection
If ever there were a canary in a coal mine, the wild bee in the almond patch is it: The decline in pollinator populations could have broad-sweeping effects for global agriculture. Ice cream purveyor Häagen-Dazs wants to do its part to save the bees — and one of its key ingredients, the California almond.