Product designers and engineers can help to significantly reduce the environmental impact of products by making sure that they change the way they design new products, by taking into account the ...

This is an excerpt adapted from Practical Sustainability (Houndstooth Press, 2022). When taking a new product out of plastic packaging, do you ever wonder how much consideration went into all that ...

With 2024 tracking to set a new global temperature record—surpassing the high reached just last year—and with an obvious uptick in human suffering due to war, social upheaval, political strife, and ...

With growing concerns about the construction industry's contribution to climate change, sustainable design is more important than ever. As the year comes to a close, we toast the best, most ...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are becoming crucial drivers of operational and investment decisions in both the public and private spheres, and the construction industry is no ...

The future of the world looks, at the moment, to be rather pessimistic, but there are plenty of designers and thinkers out there who are trying to make life greener and more sustainable — often ...

Sixty years after the first World Climate Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, 188 countries around the world reached an historic agreement in Paris pledging to cap greenhouse gas emissions in the ...

Consistent Engineering Consultants is a Business Reporter client. The construction industry is responsible for 39 per cent of global CO 2 emissions. How can it transform itself and contribute to a ...

Preserved as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the quiet Japanese villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayamaare a beautiful example of the gasshō-zukuri, or “prayer-hands construction,” historic building design ...