Sustainability Times

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Sustainability in the food industry: trends and solutions must confront a harsh fact — the sector can account for up to 40% of greenhouse gas emissions — so leaders should prioritize regenerative agriculture, precision farming and the strategic use of technology to align environmental health with economic viability. 🌱 Consumer behavior [...]

IN A NUTSHELL 🍃 Green buildings apply resource-efficient strategies across the building lifecycle, arguing that a systemic approach to design, construction, operation, and maintenance is essential to cut environmental harm and improve indoor health. ☀️ How green buildings contribute to sustainability efforts: by combining renewable energy, passive solar design, daylighting, wat...

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 The benefits of adopting sustainable water management are clear: unchecked water scarcity—driven by population growth, urbanization and climate change—threatens ecosystems, food systems and social stability, so urgent, system-wide reforms are required. 💧 Protecting freshwater systems demands proactive conservation, habitat restoration and guaranteed access to c...

Coffee grown using drip irrigation can reduce its overall carbon footprint by nearly 60% while using substantially less water, energy and chemical inputs, according to a new Life Cycle Assessment study released by Netafim, the precision irrigation business of global sustainable solutions company Orbia. The three-year study, conducted in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province, one of [...]

What are these inefficiencies, and how can they be controlled and eliminated? One need not look too far to find wasteful and unnecessary practices on a typical construction site. While the building in question might ultimately become a Net Zero model of efficiency and environmental stewardship, the journey is at least as important as the [...]