Resource revolution

Clear measurement standards, high-grade operations, specialized products, and more training for entrepreneurs can make impact...

Cross-functional collaboration and customer-focused design thinking can help companies reap more value from the energy and resources...

By reassessing where waste is most prevalent in their value chains, companies can learn to close those loops to get more from...

New sources, mobility, and industry fragmentation are set to disrupt the system.

To make bioconversion commercially competitive, the industry needs swift advances.

How will the world satisfy its need for energy? McKinsey research offers a perspective.

Advanced analytics opens vast untapped potential for farmers, investors, and emerging economies to reduce the cost of goods sold....

Satisfying the world’s food needs opens the door to investment throughout the value chain.

How moving to a circular economy can preserve our most vital resource.

A number of social, economic, and technological trends will work together to disrupt mobility, potentially creating three new...

In an interview, Jay Walder of Motivate discusses how new services and technology are changing how city residents are getting...

As more of the world’s cities become congested and polluted, new business models and technologies are emerging to solve...

A new report finds that applying circular-economy principles could dramatically reshape the economics of this workhorse of the...

Growing economic prosperity is rapidly increasing waste volumes in emerging countries. We discuss how governments can react to...

Editor’s note: The 2015 Stemming the Tide report you are looking for is no longer available, following the Ocean...

By not acting now, we’re allowing the future costs of the greenhouse-gas crisis to compound. Eventually, the consequences...

What will it take to shift markets and companies away from a short-term way of thinking?

The yachtswoman and founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation discusses her vision for a global economy in which scarce resources...

The authors of the new book Resource Revolution argue that high resource prices are spurring innovations powerful enough...

Meeting increasing global demand requires dramatically improving resource productivity. Yet technological advances mean companies...

Over the next quarter century, the rise of three billion more middle-class consumers will strain natural resources.

Historian Niall Ferguson, the CEO of a water services company, and Boeing’s lead environmental executive reflect on the resource...