Many of us have let vegetables wither in the crisper drawer, or thrown out a child’s half-eaten restaurant meal, but the sheer scale of food waste around the globe is hard to grasp. The Rockefeller Foundation and IDEO are working together to fight food waste through a series pf partnerships with hotels, food banks, foundations, and entrepreneurs.

Working with researchers at Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital, the startup Neuromotion Labs created a tablet game that pairs with a heart rate monitor to "gamify" emotional control. Neuromotion embedded at IDEO for a design sprint to expand its suite of games and prepare for launch.

Meet the man charting a greener course for coal country by shutting down the massive Big Sandy coal plant and establishing Kentucky’s largest solar farm.

Developers, politicians, and mining executives wanted to bring California’s largest coal terminal to West Oakland, which already suffers excess pollution. "Why the hell are we going to go backward by bringing coal through here?" asked Reverend Ken Chambers. "No way! Not when my parishioners live two blocks from this site." Residents fought back—and won.

Decades of intensive antibiotic treatments have cost Americans many of their native gut bacteria. Could a damaged microbiome be an underlying cause of conditions like asthma, obesity, and MS?

Butoh on the runway? It’s perfect for San Francisco designers Elena Slivnyak and Ilan Rueben, who walk the thin line between fashion and modern art.

With a record number of applicants, stiff competition for top students, and a desire to make classes more diverse, college admissions teams are feeling the strain. IDEO helped Bowdoin College redesign its admissions process to reduce overlapping by 40 percent, while maintaining the university's personal touch.

I worked hand-in-hand with IDEO's David Webster to write this op-ed for Quartz about the future of emotionally intelligent AI. I interviewed David extensively and drafted the piece in his voice.

From California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years—sometimes decades—for the U.S. EPA to investigate complaints of environmental racism.

Probiotic cheese found with the bodies of perfectly preserved, 4,000-year-old mummies in Xinjiang, China was likely a dietary staple for local herding tribes.

Mark Galey was born deaf, but that won’t keep him from his dream of supporting his family—and seeing the country—by driving a big rig.

This 11-part blog series from Earthjustice celebrates the centennial of the National Park Service. I led the planning, calendaring, and editing of the series.