Understanding Newsweek’s 2014 Green Rankings
The good news is that disclosure of the most important environmental metrics by the biggest companies has become table stakes: 88 percent of the 100 largest US companies now disclose their greenhouse...
View Article2014 Newsweek Green Rankings FAQ and Advisory Council
The Newsweek Green Rankings are one of the world’s most recognized assessments of corporate environmental performance. This page provides information on the Rankings Advisory council, and helps address...
View ArticleBuilding for a Better World and Making People Smile?
In 2004, American architect and sustainability pioneer William McDonough met the Dutch developer Coert Zachariasse of Delta Development. Together, they brought forth Park 20|20, the first Cradle to...
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Putting an End to Gassy Cows
Karen Beauchemin spends every day in her lab at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Alberta, Canada, working on cow feed. Boring, you say? Far from it. Beauchemin is part of an international...
View ArticleAmerica’s Invisible Trolley System
In 1995, a nonprofit transit advocacy group in New York, the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA), decided to construct a light rail service connecting the underserviced neighborhood of Red...
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Is It Too Late to Save Our Cities From Sea-Level Rise?
On May 11, two research papers splashed like splintering icebergs on a public already worried about sea-level rise with this grim news: West Antarctica is melting out of control. Miami and Manhattan...
View ArticleThe Rebirth of the Shopping Mall
When Victor Gruen designed the first suburban shopping mall, Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota, he dreamed it would revolutionize the American way of life. Gruen, a Viennese immigrant, was a...
View ArticleNewsweek’s Green Rankings, 2014
The plane flew off, leaving three scientists alone on a vast ice shelf in Antarctica. As the twin-engine aircraft became a speck in the sky, they realized they were utterly alone; the nearest human...
View ArticleDecision to Free U.S. Soldier Bergdahl Was Unanimous: Hagel
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the decision to strike a deal with the Taliban for the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was unanimous in the White House as it was believed...
View ArticleAmericans Who Dropped Out of the Workforce Are Coming Back
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time in six years, the share of people who either have a job or are looking for one is on the rise in a majority of U.S. states, a sign one of the deepest scars of...
View ArticleSnowden's Lawyer Says Russia Will Extend Asylum
BERLIN (Reuters) - A lawyer for former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden told German radio on Thursday that he expected his client's asylum in Russia to be extended beyond July."We assume...
View ArticleIsrael to Build More Than 1,000 New Settler Homes: Media
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is planning to build more than 1,000 new settlement homes in the West Bank, Israeli media reported on Thurday, following the formation of a Palestinian unity government...
View ArticleBananas Coke Bust Worth $17 Million
PODGORICA (Reuters) - Customs officers in Montenegro have seized 250 kilograms of cocaine smuggled beneath a shipment of bananas, authorities said on Thursday, in what was described as the biggest drug...
View ArticlePope Fires Entire Board of Vatican Financial Watchdog
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican's financial watchdog on Thursday - all Italians - in the latest move to break with an old guard associated with a murky...
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A Number Without Equal: Baseball Legend Don Zimmer Dead at 83
They could never retire Don Zimmer’s number because each year it kept changing. In his final years in baseball as a coach with the Tampa Bay Rays, Zimmer, who died on Wednesday at 83, would change his...
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The 9/11 Museum's Biggest Oversight: The World Trade Center's Neighborhood
On May 14, 1942, Michael Yanoscik went down Washington Street one last time. He grew up at 9 Albany Street, where today there is a W hotel looking down at the twin cataracts of the 9/11 Memorial. The...
View ArticleGraphic Novel Illustrates How Chelsea Manning Was Treated in Prison
A new graphic novel brings to life the courtroom drama of the court-martial of Private Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking thousands of diplomatic cables and military...
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IBTimes Digest: What Leads a Soldier to Desert?
1. What Leads A Soldier To Desert?As debate rages over whether Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl deserted his post, others among the estimated 59,000 soldiers who went AWOL during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd's Weed Shaman Says She Was Warned
When New York Times columnist David Brooks confessed his stoner past in a confoundingly moralistic January column, an old weed buddy of his quickly emerged to tell tales of their “moments of...
View ArticleIndian Official Says Rape Is ‘Sometimes’ Right
In late May, two girls living in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh went outside to use the bathroom. That night they were gang-raped, and they were found dead the next day, hanging from a...
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