If the image accompanying this article conjures up images of “Blade Runner,” you’ve gotten the right idea. An unsustainable, hyper-consuming global society is one of five futures that could await us, based on some of today’s trade and technology trends. [...]
There are lots of ways to measure how efficient a thing or process is: miles per gallon, GDP per barrel of oil, lumens per watt, etc. There are also, as Mark Twain (or was it Benjamin Disraeli?) said, “three kinds [...]
We have the technology we need to resolve the world’s most pressing environmental and sustainability problems. Unfortunately, we don’t have the human smarts to do so. Whether it’s our unsustainable energy path, out-of-control financial systems or climate change, the facts [...]
Bringing electricity, more food and higher income to the world’s poor billions wouldn’t create much new stress for either the planet or the global economy. On the other hand, bringing down the vast levels of over-consumption by the world’s wealthiest [...]
The sustainable-living mantra of “reduce, reuse, recycle” is usually applied to low-tech or consumer goods: things like glass jars, old magazines and obsolete cellphones. But we could become a whole lot more sustainable if we followed those concepts for much [...]
How can better business processes and technology find ways to solve sustainability challenges involving materials, energy, water and more? A group of global businesses have begun working together to look for innovative answers to those problems. Along the way, they’re [...]
How can automated environmental reporting help a company become greener and more sustainable? An interactive webcast later this month will explore one organization’s experience. California’s North County Transit District (NCTD) is implementing Oracle’s environmental accounting and reporting software as part [...]
In an earlier post, we asked if it would be possible to power the world with clean energy. The United Nations believes it’s possible. So does the International Energy Agency (IEA). So what’s the problem? Why aren’t we there yet? [...]
Leadership failure on a global scale threatens to sow “the seeds of dystopia” — a future beset by rising economic inequality, shredded social contracts, high and chronic unemployment of the young and an aging population left dependent on cash-poor governments. [...]
Before any company can report on what it’s doing to become more sustainable, it needs to gather data … and lots of it. But simply presenting a mass of information in its raw form won’t tell anybody much about how [...]
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