Green jobs go beyond solar panel installation and wind turbine maintenance. They’re found in fields from design to economics and in many types of management.
Articles on Sustainability
Displaying 261 - 280 of 858 articles
Most of us enjoy chocolate this time of year, but how many of us appreciate its historical roots and significance?
Dendrobium orchids are familiar to most people in bouquets, but they are in high demand in China for use in traditional medicines. Can Beijing find ways to grow these threatened plants sustainably?
The days of freeze-fried astronaut ice cream are long behind us. What will humans eat on Moon colonies in the future? Carefully engineered space gardens could be the answer.
As living standards rise, we could see smaller populations but much bigger ecological impacts.
A managed fossil fuel phasing-out offers a chance for producers – including governments, corporations and unions – to negotiate the terms of a ‘just transition’ to renewable energy.
The barriers and benefits to reviving the UK textile industry.
The transition to net zero will require huge investments, but how do we make sure investment goes to the right place?
Whether or not Patagonia’s recent move will have a lasting impact on business responsibility will depend on how it balances its environmental impacts with the social good it carries out.
Yvon Chouinard, his wife and their two adult children have given the company he founded away. From now on, its profits will fund climate and conservation work.
World heritage sites play an essential role in advancing Unesco’s goals, but more foresight is needed to imagine and enable promising strategies that address the needs of future generations.
Degrowthers are using the cost of living crisis to try and further their cause.
As Prince of Wales, Charles regularly met scientists to learn more about environmental research. Two Australian researchers recall encounters with the new monarch that left an impression.
Ethereum, one of the world’s largest blockchains and host of decentralized finance, NFTs and billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency, is poised to dramatically reduce its energy consumption.
Fossil fuel companies are winning the battle on how we talk about natural gas expansion by referring to it as a “bridge fuel” or an essential bridge to the net-zero energy system of the future.
As the climate crisis intensifies, New Zealand businesses of all kinds must face tougher scrutiny over their commitment to reducing carbon emissions.
The true cost of marine conservation often falls on vulnerable coastal communities. Can a ‘beneficiary pays’ approach protect both endangered species and the communities dependent on them?
Today’s mega-events are often greener because of what was pioneered in 2012.
Japanese people had to rely totally on materials already present within the country.
British households waste nearly 32% of all purchased food items per year.
Top contributors
-
Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
-
Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
-
Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
-
Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
-
John Thwaites is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
-
Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
-
Associate Professor of Quantitative Analytics, ESCP Business School
-
Associate Professor, Global Management Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
-
Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
-
Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
-
Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
-
Postdoctoral researcher, Universität Wien
-
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University