The Complicity of Corporate Sustainability
Long hailed as a major piece of the climate solution, sustainable business practices have not only fallen short: They even enable the continued dominance of fossil fuel.
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Innovations in sustainable energy (more)
Smart Tourism
Global Himalayan Expedition turns adventure seeking into sustainable giving, creating electricity and employment in remote Indian villages.
Open-Source Learning for 2020 and Beyond
How Middlebury’s culture of collaborative, student-centric innovation lead to Energy2028, the phaseout of fossil fuel investments in the college endowment. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Autobahn Alternative?
The two-person company Solmove has a plan to pave Germany’s roads with small, durable, slip-resistant solar panels. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.
The Next Big Thing for Pay-as-You-Go
Strategies for cross-sectoral partnership in reaching consumers in emerging markets through pay-as-you-go business models.
SSIR’s Earth Day Reading List
A collection of our recent articles, essays, and book excerpts covering climate change, environmental protection, and sustainability.
Scaling Power for Global Prosperity
Ending energy poverty to address systemic inequality requires a much more ambitious plan than philanthropic and nonprofit leaders currently envision.
Capturing Emissions for Fish Food
NovoNutrients uses bacteria to convert CO2 and other industrial emissions into fish food.
Clean Energy by the People, for the People
After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the “energy rebels” of Schönau, Germany, launched a grassroots revolution in the Black Forest to take control of their community’s power.
Accelerating an Impact Industry: Lessons from Clean Cookstoves
The experience of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves in accelerating investment, collective action, profitability, and impact provides lessons for other impact industries attempting to do the same in base of the pyramid markets across the developing world.