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The nonprofit Camfed teaches young women to spread climate-smart agriculture techniques in their communities to increase food security, climate resilience and even school attendance.

Sustainable living can feel out of reach as a college student on a strict budget, but making sustainable lifestyle changes doesn’t require buying new things or following trends — and it can save you money. These simple things made a big impact in my student years.

More than 80 companies around the world are searching for the best ways to advance women across racial and ethnic groups into leadership roles to improve gender equity as a part of the Catalyst CEO Champions For Change initiative. 

Knowing what counts as a sustainable building material can be difficult, especially when working with the overwhelming variety of products available for interior spaces. Gensler's new platform helps companies implementing sustainable design identify their options.

The cocoa industry generates roughly $200 billion in annual profits, yet the farmers who produce it often make less than a dollar a day from growing and selling cocoa. As we celebrate Valentine’s Day, WWF's Jason Clay examines how companies can invest in the people and places that sustain cocoa production. 

Sustainability writers are often tasked with answering the question, "where is the impact?" When it comes to sustainable living, the impact is felt in the daily life of the person practicing it. Here are some of the ways it's added to my enjoyment of life.

Talking about race at work often devolves into defensiveness that invalidates people of color and their perspectives. To have productive conversations, you should arrive capable of managing your own feelings while accepting hard truths about yourself, this diversity and inclusion expert recommends.

Scroll idly through Instagram’s explore page and it won’t be long before you encounter an influencer’s trip to Bali. They paint a paradisiacal vision, but if you walk down those beaches yourself, the stark reality of plastic debris intermingled with the sand quickly shatters the illusion so carefully cultivated for your digital consumption. 

In the spirit of our 2024 Sustainable Living Challenge, and trying out affordable and accessible things that reduce our personal footprints, we decided to give it a go — and we're not going back. Bookmark this page for when you have enough scraps to start some stock yourself. 

We heard through the grapevine that everyone's favorite digital assistant, ChatGPT, is also a powerful ally for reducing food waste at home. But does it really work? We gave it a try to find out. 

You're probably storing your fruits and vegetables wrong. Clickbait aside, improper storage is the No. 1 reason your fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs are spoiling faster than you can use them. Bookmark this list to start storing your produce like a pro.

Nonprofit builders are at the forefront of developing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that advance the public good. Helping students with their resumes, trialing generic drugs to treat cancer, and improving livelihoods for rural farmers are among the missions nonprofits are pursuing with help from AI.

With the 2024 Sustainable Living Challenge, we're out to prove adopting a more sustainable lifestyle can be easy, budget-friendly and fun (yes, fun!). 

Representation in disability-related product design has come a long way, but there is still room for improvement. Businesses can use disability-inclusive design to make products that can be used by and benefit all while making sound business sense.

New plant-based brands, partnerships and products are released almost every day, to the delight of vegans and curious omnivores alike, making it easier for everyone to mix up their plates more often.

As mobile home owners fight rising housing costs, some of them have hit upon a solution that also helps in the fight against climate change: banding together and buying the land underneath their homes.

2023 was a big year for TriplePundit. Our renewed focus on evidence-based sustainability solutions resonated with our community of readers, and these were some of the headlines that caught your eyes most last year. 

A recent report from the American Thoracic Society shows the local impacts of air pollution so cities, counties and regions can see the direct benefits of making air quality improvements.

The U.S. faces a caregiving crisis of immense proportion. Support for the care workforce is severely lacking while America enters an elder boom, with all baby boomers turning 65 or older by 2030. It doesn’t have to be this way. Solutions for creating a care economy that works for everyone exist today.

In Ohio, the Truetown Drainage dumps over 2 million pounds of iron oxide into nearby Sunday Creek each year, destroying seven miles of aquatic habitat. A new facility will treat the water and extract the minerals to create pigments used to color paint.

Construction workers are key to realizing our vision for a sustainable future. How can we honor their value and ensure a skilled and fulfilled workforce?