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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sustainable architecture refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs; it’s a way of building that considers the full life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Sustainability is all the rage today, partly due to the pandemic which drove home the extent to which we’re all interconnected. It ...

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 ...

With the world’s landfills and waterways littered with plastic waste, packaging companies are under growing scrutiny from regulators and consumers to develop more circular solutions. And while most ...

There are three elements to the definition of "sustainability." What is the resource, what is the area measured, and what is the time period measured. Resources that we want to be sustainable might be ...