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How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
Insights

Monster Avocados and Bread Beer: 12 Technologies Fighting Food Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
Garbage bins
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
Insights

Q&A: How a Cuban Name Change Boosted Panera’s Soup Sales

  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Food
Black bean soup
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Food
Insights

Barriers to a Circular Economy: 5 Reasons the World Wastes So Much Stuff (and Why It's Not Just the Consumer's Fault)

  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
Insights

By the Numbers: The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Recycled bread rolls
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Insights

6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2017

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Andrew Steer
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Insights

2030 Champions Brings Together Business and Government to Cut US Food Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Bald Eagle at Tomoka Landfill
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security

RELEASE: New “Better Buying Lab” to Develop Sustainable Food Strategies

  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Food
  • agriculture
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Food
  • agriculture
Insights

How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste

6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Responding to Questions about Bioenergy

  • biofuels
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • biofuels
  • agriculture
  • Food
Insights

Biofuels Are Not a Green Alternative to Fossil Fuels

  • Energy
  • Food
  • biofuels
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate change
As Earth becomes more crowded, fertile land and the plants it supports become ever more valuable for food, timber and carbon storage—things for which we don’t have an alternative source. Patrick Wall/CIMMYT/Flickr.
  • Energy
  • Food
  • biofuels
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate change
Research

Finding Balance

Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset