When you think of sustainability, you probably think of practices and sources of energy that don’t deplete the earth’s resources and/or make it easy to renew the earth or materials that are harvested ...

Yes, rice, which contains a crucial tire material normally found in sand. Here's why Michelin is turning food into rubber.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Group Michelin is calling for industrywide consensus on a "common and stringent definition" of what makes a material sustainable. "Currently, there is no single definition for ...

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 ...

At a breakfast meeting this morning with reporters, President Obama’s top economic adviser Austan Goolsbee maintained that the president’s budget proposal is “sustainable.” Goolsbee was asked by THE ...

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 ...

The San Diego Planning Department is proposing a new definition to replace "transit priority areas," where the city aims to focus its future growth, after complaints from anti-density homeowners who ...

In an era of climate challenges, rising energy costs, and growing demand for sustainable construction, the building industry ...