Sustainability

Street vending, brunch, and house plants have more in common than you may think. In this episode of “Connect the Dots,” Fernando Hurtado ends up on #PlantTok, meets a street vendor selling plants, and learns about why some black plastic can’t be recycled.

Travelers care a lot about the environmental impact of their trips, surveys show, but many say they’re unsure how to be a more sustainable and eco-friendly tourist, or are worried about paying more to do so.

When Coldplay considered a 2022 world tour, they knew they wanted to offset as much of the environmental impact of their stadium shows as possible. So they got creative. Telemundo correspondent Randy Serrano goes to Costa Rica for an inside look at a kinetic dance floor and other innovative ways Coldplay is reducing their impact.

While organizations make notable progress on reducing the harmful effects of their operations, experts say sustainability claims can be overstated and mask underlying problems.

Girls are more likely to be dissatisfied with environmental efforts than boys, and older teens are more likely to care about corporations’ role in climate change than younger teens, new data finds.

Two Southern Methodist University grads are looking to the future of the planet with the launch of their company PlantSwitch which makes sustainable straws and utensils.

Two Southern Methodist University are looking to the future of the planet with the launch of their company Plant Switch which makes sustainable straws and utensils.

Clothes designed by Asate Maisé have sold out online in 6 minutes. Maisé gives a tour of her studio in Wilmington, Delaware, and talks about her use of sustainable, deadstock vintage fabrics in eye-catching clothing.

After committing to making all of its products sustainable by 2030, Danish toymaker LEGO announced that it will start rolling out new bricks made entirely of recycled bottles.

At the beginning of the pandemic, as grocery store shelved emptied of essentials, many people in the U.S. got a taste of a world where food isn’t easy to come by. But as climate change threatens the planet, experts say mass food shortages are a real danger. That’s why people like Elizabeth Medgyesy of California’s Sonoma County are turning to...

Two British designers have developed an eco-friendly approach to producing furniture — they grow it directly from trees. The co-founders of the U.K. furniture business, called Full Grown, coax trees to grow into the shape of tables, chairs and even lamps. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories met with the co-founders of Full Grown to see this “organic 3D printing”...

In Taos, New Mexico, a team is building a model of self-sustainable, off-the-grid living called Earthships. The concept was pioneered by Michael Reynolds 50 years ago and has been evolving ever since. He said the structures meet the six key human needs by providing shelter, water, food, energy, sewage treatment and garbage management.

Taking a toy out of the box can make a mess.

Vogue Italia has produced its first issue of the new year and decade with an eye on sustainability, substituting fashion illustrations for photographs in an effort to reduce the environmental impact associated with staging fashion photo shoots around the globe. Editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti said the January issue was believed to be the first time a Vogue magazine has gone photo-less…