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 ...

Sustainability isn't just about the environment. It also means preparing for retirement and sustaining a way of life.

Different companies and people can legitimately have different views on what successful sustainability efforts look like, according to a senior director at one plastics industry trade group. "It's a ...

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 ...

Business operational sustainability is a method of evaluating whether a business can maintain existing practices without placing future resources at risk. Sustainability can refer to any one of a ...

Ed note. Commentary below comes via Project Syndicate, and is reprinted here with permission. Author David Griggs is Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute (MSI) in Australia. Emphasis added.

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 ...

Whatever your stance on the UK's recent in/out referendum, I think we can agree that we are facing uncertain times and that businesses, as well as consumers, are nervous about what is next for us as ...

Most people like "sustainability"—but few can agree on what it means. Four panelists from The Atlantic's Food Summit share their thoughts. Most people agree that "sustainability" is a good thing when ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Despite its name, the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef is not so much an ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Back in January, McDonald’s announced plans to begin purchasing “verified sustainable beef” by 2016. The only problem was no one quite ...