Nature

Concerns about the world’s most precious resource -- water -- are growing, and businesses are increasingly taking note. Many large companies have already experienced disruptions in operations, increasing expenses and other adverse impacts related to water. A new suite of tools called Aqueduct, under development by the World Resources Institute, provides the context to help firms understand, manage and mitigate water risk. Read More

The first report from the CDP on the impact of water constraints on the world’s largest corporations. Read More

In a bid to cut air pollution, the City of London began spraying a "dust suppressant" today that acts as an adhesive to paste particulate matter to the streets instead of re-circulating in the air. Read More

Most people would not consider January an ideal time to plant crops, especially January in Montreal. But for Mohamed Hage, Kurt D. Lynn and Howard Resh, timing is one of the proof points of their project -- a commercial-scale rooftop greenhouse that's designed to yield produce year-round for an urban community. Read More

By making simple changes to the jeans finishing process, Levi's has been able to dramatically reduce the water needed to produce each pair of jeans. Read More

A small company based in rural Montana has big dreams for using post-consumer plastic waste to restore fish populations, sequester carbon, remove water pollution -- and create unlimited amounts of new waterfront property. Read More

Experts say it will cost $300 billion per year by 2020 to stop biodiversity loss, but the Global Canopy says that we are now only delivering between $36 billion and $38 billion per year. Read More

Enforcement of the amended Lacey Act has begun, both on and off the public radar. A recent seizure of Peruvian tropical hardwood provides several insights into how companies can stay in compliance with the amended Lacey Act. Read More

In a green building tour de force, Johnson Controls' corporate campus in Glendale has earned four LEED-Platinum ratings -- the most awarded to a single site in the history of U.S. Green Building Council. Sodexo's North American headquarters also received certification at highest USGBC level. Read More

The biggest winner in the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE competition is not an electric car, but a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds and is powered by an internal combustion engine. Read More