A new generation of succesful for-profit, mission-driven businesses are serving energy-hungry communities across the globe.

Using ceramics and metal nanoparticles, a non-profit organization from University of Virginia is making these simple but effective purifiers that can eliminate up to 99.9% of waterborne pathogens.

Good for the Westons, owners of both, for doing the right thing by admitting their use of the factory and their willingness to help out.

Can these 200 people save the world?

Many areas of the world have scarce access to electricity. This new solar lantern will provide light and charging power for cell phones.

Groups working in developing regions could use solar-powered 3D printers to make tools, lab supplies and more on the go.

The student invention just won the James Dyson Award for its intelligent design.

The large solar-powered box will help farmers get more food to the market for selling.

The toilets could be used to power lighting in refugee camps.

A fail-safe filter that delivers water easily with a sip or a squeeze could save lives in places where water-borne illnesses thrive, but look for it first as a trendy gym accessory.

Trust the rock stars, or your doctor.

The technology could save countless lives.

In a victory for Berta Cáceres' campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.

The Level Market wants to make the procurement of humanitarian aid and development products as easy as shopping on Amazon.

For the last two decades, Nargis Latif and her organization have been researching how to divert waste from landfills and reusing it as quick and cheap construction materials.

How would you reduce one pound of waste per week from your lifestyle?

How do companies close the “green-gap” and turn consumer values into action?

In our mission to close the “green-gap” through sustainable messaging, every bit of insight counts.

Do people have the right to say no to corporations that come into their communities and create environmental and health risks? In Israel, the public is proving that they do.

The discussion of implementing proactive environmental consciousness starts with our youth, who have the most influence on the trajectory of our eco-infrastructure.

A major brand is putting out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from recycled beach plastic

We need to see plastic for what it is: nearly-indestructible, highly polluted and far from disposable.

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

Why oceans, why now?

An item as ubiquitous as coffee has varying degrees of sustainability. Being aware of these can help us make better choices.

Companies are in position to shift away from a linear towards a circular product economy that is at once regenerative and restorative.

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.

Here are some tips that’ll help parents and children connect with nature and honor the environment.

World Water Day may be one day out of the year, but taking the time to reflect can help us make long-lasting impacts that we can carry forward.

Wastes are made in the kitchen.

Latest IPCC report calls for urgent action in the way land is used.

'These fires are a situation that humanity cannot tolerate.' – Carlos Durigan, WCS Brazil

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

The carbon footprint of air freight is ten times that of truck freight; perhaps it's time for "slow shopping."

When the heck did electric commercial flight become a realistic prospect?!

Tiny scales along the animals' bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water. These structures could do the same for aircraft.

Who needs flying cars when you can have flying trains?

CEO John Holland-Kaye expects to be taken up on this offer within the next 12 years.

If it weren't so subsidized, it would be a lot more expensive, and people might fly a lot less.

“December 10, 2019 will be remembered as the day the electric aviation age started.”

No more shopping blindly. It's time to question your whole approach to holiday gifts.

Cat lover? New plant parent? Fortune seeker? Traveler? We've got the perfect plant for all.

This artist mixes and matches up jigsaw puzzle pieces from different vintage puzzles to create mind-bending collages.

These photo-luminescent artworks hide fascinating stories about the places and cities they are located in.

Concerned about the threats facing coral reefs, this artist is creating bright, tactile reminders of what healthy corals look like.

Photographed in various natural settings, these life-sized, child-like works of art invoke a sense of wonder and delight.

These fascinating works explore how folding might push the frontiers of flexible photovoltaics, self-assembling materials and nano-forms.

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.