We have developed a highly mechanized, energy intensive, high throughput economy that is chewing up the planet's resources at a ferocious pace.

With a global population that is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, the crucial question emerges -- how do we extract our needs from the planet without destroying it?

Just as the 20th century's move toward massive, technologically-based economic development changed our educational system in the second half of the 20th century, the challenges of global sustainability are also starting to influence higher education.

In an increasingly crowded planet, the scale of production of everything has grown. In the old days, water, energy and waste were minor factors in an organization's cost equation. Those days are gone.

Despite numerous disasters of late, a source of optimism is the growing ranks of experienced sustainability professionals working hard to improve organizations throughout the world.

Teaching the physical dimensions of sustainability- the use of natural resources to build products and structures, waste management and the impact of ...

The Bloomberg administration has again demonstrated its ability to marry sound business and environmental principles and placed themselves at the forefront of the emerging field of sustainability management.

The issue of sustainability is no longer a luxury item or an add-on to those factors routinely addressed by management; it has moved to the apex of management concerns.