“It’s not every day we get to paint a roof in Midtown,” said Special Projects Manager for the New York City Service Wendy Dessy to a group of volunteers assembled in the basement of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. As she distributed buckets filled with paintbrushes and gloves, an audible hum of [...]

People have never doubted NASA’s contribution to daily life on Earth: from cordless tools to water filters and memory foam, a majority of NASA’s technology, originally created to facilitate the exploration of space, now functions to make everyday living more comfortable. Importantly, NASA has also been making big strides in terms of improving our relationship [...]

Since its invention of the ketchup packet in 1968, H.J. Heinz Co. has received nothing but complaints about the small, messy, and above all else, simply wasteful design of the to-go version of America’s most popular condiment. But by the end of year, ketchup packets may disappear altogether. Fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Carl’s [...]

Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, [...]

When it comes to the topic of environmental degradation in Borneo, conservationists have become the new colonialists. From the conservationist standpoint, forests are seen as pristine sources of wilderness and wildlife, untouched by the human hand and unseen by the human eye. The goal of conservation in Borneo is to preserve important areas of biodiversity [...]

On January 28, 2011, the UK agreed to develop formal partnerships with China to accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies in both countries. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by UK climate change secretary Chris Huhne and Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, the governments outlined plans for a Low Carbon Cooperation (LCC) initiative designed to facilitate the [...]