As awareness and importance grows around climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, human and resource exploitation, and the circular economy, we are no longer accepting loose environmental claims and empty promises from corporations and governments. Greenwashing is the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how environmentally…

Materials and people are alike. They come in many shapes and sizes. Their diversity makes for the richness of their realm, and reducing them to one attribute by applying a label is likely a hasty conclusion. No one is forever kind nor beautiful. Neither can we say that materials are…

Sustainability is about making sure that future generations have what they need. Our current practices of design and consumption, as well as population growth and widespread urbanization, have resulted in a depletion of resources, climate change and excessive amounts of waste. We lost our balance long ago. …

As new generations emerge and we see social, cultural, and technology shifts, it is inevitable that our perception of materials will evolve in parallel. Materials are everywhere, transformed into the products and spaces that surround us, and enabling the experiences of modern life. A material’s purpose is often two-fold; the…

Since the term “sustainable development” was used by the World Commission on Environment and Development at the United Nations in 1987 (The Brundtland Report), sustainability is widely considered to comprise three aspects: People — social equality Planet — environmental protection Profit — economic growth Our collective efforts to be more…

Everything is made from something. Materials form us, as well as the world we see and feel around us: our flesh from water and tissues, our clothing from fibers, our furniture from wood, our plates from ceramic, our windows from glass, our homes from concrete, even the batteries that power…