Author: Science and Technology for Sustainability Program

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management's (EM) mission is the safe cleanup of sites associated with the government-led develo...

Even as malnutrition in the form of hunger and obesity affect the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, a significant amount of fo...

Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Researc...

By 2050 the world's population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in glob...

In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainab...

Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in sustainability education in colleges and universities across the United States, with a ma...

Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, with the U....

The responsible management of natural resources for present-day needs and future generations requires integrated approaches that are place-based, e...

The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new p...

The COVID-19 pandemic and overlapping global crises, including geopolitical conflict and climate change, have made achievement of the United Nation...

The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with vario...

In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this...

The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challe...

In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmenta...

A sustainable society, according to one definition, is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and w...

Sustainable developmentmeeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet's life support systemsrequires a continuous process of scientif...