Biking Vegas? Are you crazy?
Urbane Renewal Chapter 3: Betting on bicycles See Part 1: Hail, Caesars! Casinos Go Green and Part 2: Vegas Redefines “Central Location” “You can’t be serious.” “That’s nuts!” “Are you crazy?!?” That’s a sampling of reactions to my plan »
Sustainable Social Innovation: Put People First
Social innovation is a big word. A big but important word. No fancy social innovation idea will work if there are no insatiably driven people to move ideas forward. There are stories of great ideas that have not »
Sustainable Tourism
SustainableTrip.org supports business owners’ efforts to become sustainable by promoting them to key tourism markets in the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America at no cost to the businesses themselves. This exposure is especially valuable for those »
Ice Dunes for a Winter's Hike
The museum’s new exhibits pair adds to this wintry mix of a trip. In “The Politics of Snow,” Diane Burko’s oil paintings of Alaskan glaciers and European peaks reveal clues to accelerated, potentially cataclysmic ice melt. Having observed many of these »
Technology of Fashion
This article marks the seventh in Urban Times’ EcoFashion Series. We hope to shed some light on the eco fashion industry by exploring elements such as the sustainability, culture, ecology, psychology, labour and future of fashion. Our authors explore to what extent »
Food for Thought: Toxic Nutrition?
You are What You Eat. Previous Food for Thought: To Whom is Our Beauty Beholden? In January 2012, Environmental chemist Brian P. Jackson, and his research team at Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program found »
The World’s Most Sustainable Restaurants and Cafes
As entrepreneurs look for new ways to stand out in the highly competitive food services industry, more and more restaurants are adopting eco-friendly business models. By adapting more environmentally sustainable »
Technology of Fashion
This article marks the seventh in Urban Times’ EcoFashion Series. We hope to shed some light on the eco fashion industry by exploring elements such as the sustainability, culture, ecology, psychology, labour and future of fashion. Our authors explore to what extent »
Water and the Demand Problem
According to Rob McGinnis, by the year 2030 there will 40% less fresh water in the world than the world’s growing population will need. I remember in junior high school doing a project on water scarcity and learning that by the middle of the century peak water »
Sov Nou Zako – Save Our Monkeys
The paradise island of Mauritius attracts thousands of tourists each year to its idyllic beaches and lush tropical rainforest. However, many visitors and residents of the island may be shocked to learn that Mauritius is »
Legality of Fashion
This article marks the sixth in Urban Times’ EcoFashion Series. We hope to shed some light on the eco fashion industry by exploring elements such as the sustainability, culture, ecology, psychology, labour and future of fashion. Our authors explore to what extent eco »
5 Bodies of Water at Risk of Drying Out
The Colorado River The Colorado river is undoubtedly one of the most important rivers in Earth’s geological history, for it created the majestic and awe-inspiring Grand Canyon, producing one of the greatest »