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TEB Sustainability Research Team

The TEB Sustainability Research Team covers practical environmental topics: renewable energy, sustainable homes, waste reduction, pollution, water, green technology, and responsible consumption. We dig through research papers, industry data, government guidance, and other trusted sources, then turn that information into something readers can actually use. Complex environmental subjects don't have to stay complicated. Our job is to make sense of them.

Environment

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September 22, 2011

Rainforests Are Disappearing—But the 2025 Data Add Hope

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Rainforests are still disappearing, but the latest data contain a crucial complication: tropical primary-forest loss fell sharply in 2025 after a disastrous, fire-driven 2024. That improvement is real, yet it…

Sustainability

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
September 18, 2011

Sustainable Food Production: What Matters Most in 2026

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Sustainable food production is often reduced to a contest between farming labels. The 2026 reality is broader: the environmental footprint of food runs from land clearing and fertiliser to refrigeration,…

Climate Change

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 11, 2011

Global Warming First Victim? What Lohachara Island Really Tells Us Today

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For years, Lohachara Island has been described in dramatic terms: an inhabited island swallowed by rising seas and one of the first places on Earth lost to global warming. The…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
January 5, 2011

Mystery Bird Deaths: Weather, Pollution or Disease?

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The thousands of red-winged blackbirds that fell over Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year’s Eve 2010 became an early social-media mystery. Pollution, secret weapons and apocalyptic theories circulated before laboratory evidence…

Green Tips

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
December 22, 2010

The Seven Sins of Greenwashing—Updated for 2026

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The classic “seven sins of greenwashing” still offers a useful vocabulary, but environmental marketing has changed dramatically since the framework became popular. In 2026, misleading claims appear not only on…

Other Stories

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November 22, 2010

Tilikum Crossing: Portland’s Transit Bridge After a Decade

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Portland’s proposed Willamette River transit bridge is no longer a rendering. Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, opened in September 2015 and now carries light-rail trains, streetcars, buses, bicycles and…

Other Stories

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October 22, 2010

Rail~Volution Is Now Mpact: How Transit Planning Changed

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Rail~Volution did more than host an annual transportation conference. It helped establish a now-familiar planning idea: transit investment works best when housing, streets, jobs and public space are designed around…

Green Technology

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October 1, 2010

2026 Nissan Leaf: Did the Electric-Car Pioneer Thrive?

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When the original Nissan Leaf reached U.S. buyers in late 2010, it was a risky experiment: an affordable mass-market electric car with limited range, slow road-trip charging and a battery…

Green Tips

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
July 22, 2009

10 Eco-Friendly Date Ideas That Feel Genuinely Romantic

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Eco-friendly date ideas work best when sustainability improves the experience instead of turning romance into a checklist. In 2026, the most useful shift is away from buying “green” products for…

Environment

Posted byby TEB Sustainability Research Team
May 2, 2009

Mercury Pollution in 2026: Risks, Fish and Safer Choices

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Mercury pollution has fallen from several major U.S. sources, but the public-health problem has not disappeared. The important update in 2026 is that progress at smokestacks coexists with persistent mercury…