Environment

The business of sustainability – meeting the needs of the present without compromising resources for future generations -- is growing among companies with a social conscience. Guayakí, which makes and sells Yerba Mate beverages, is an example of a company that has built its entire business model on practices that drive environmental and social change. Its main goal: to get you, as the consumer, to support sustainability with your dollars. …

Restoring the Rainforest: Guayakí Brews Environmental and Social Change

In 2012, student entrepreneur Ryan Marschang and some of his classmates launched Invisergy, a developer of solar technology building materials. While the technology showed great potential, building owners weren’t quite ready for the high-tech product, and its founders dissolved the business in December. Marschang sat down with KWHS Editor Diana Drake to discuss his passion for energy and how it feels to close the doors on a new business.…

Solar Eclipse: What Happens when Your Startup Fails?

What stands 300 feet high, weighs more than 1,000 tons and has rotor blades that reach more than 250 feet in diameter? Chances are you’ve seen one, but never really thought much about it. Wind turbines are perhaps the most towering evidence of a growing manufacturing sector in the U.S. – the production of wind energy. KWHS goes down to the farm – the wind farm, that is – to check out the moving parts of this promising new industry.…

‘Larger than Life’: Wind Farms and America’s Energy Future

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, people have been coming together each year on April 22 to celebrate the environment and advocate for sustainability and protection. But as this year’s theme, “A Billion Acts of Green”, suggests, true environmental change is a full-time effort. High school students around the country are finding ways every day in their schools and communities to raise awareness of environmental issues, inspire change and improve the livability of the planet. …

The Voice of a Green Generation

Developing economies around the world struggle with providing ample, affordable food supplies, which compromises community nutrition and overall health. Five teenage women in Northern Zambia are investing new entrepreneurial skills into their remote fishing community through savvy farming strategies and increased employment to tackle the local food crisis. This case study written by Camfed International, an organization that works toward eradicating poverty in Africa through the empowerment of young women, tells the story of Chitundwa’s Poverty Fighters.…

Northern Zambia’s Poverty Fighters

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