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.

Discarded laptop batteries could power LED lights in regions with scarce electricity.

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

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.

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.

Access to safe, reliable and affordable sanitary napkins is a big barrier to equal opportunity for many girls in developing countries. This inexpensive and clever set allows girls and women to clean, dry and carry their pads discreetly.

The device made from household objects could replace AA batteries for powering small electronics.

The technology could save countless lives.

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.

Achieving 100% zero waste isn't always feasible, but the path toward zero waste comes with its own rewards.

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

Why so much focus on packaging when product waste is equally important to consider?

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

Companies and manufacturers are creating custom solutions for their difficult-to-recycle waste

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.

Industry coalitions working with municipal recycling can work, but only in two circumstances

In Canada, we’ve collected over 150 million units of waste and engaged two million people to recycle.

When it comes to communicating an alignment with personal values, it doesn’t get more personal than social media.

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?

“Lightweighting” often shrinks down packaging into items that are unrecyclable, difficult to capture, highly polluted and designed without end-of-life solutions.

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.

How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources?

Average consumers of all incomes have the ability to meaningfully invest in organizations doing good work

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 Oceans Day celebrates awareness and brings to attention the resources available to all of us in the battle against plastic pollution.

Wastes are made in the kitchen.

The most wonderful time of the year is often the most wasteful

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

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

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.

On the heels of their success pushing sales of electric cars, Norway want to spur the move to electric airplanes

Who needs flying cars when you can have flying trains?

Because “the pursuit of speed is a moral imperative.”