Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Join the WCS LA Chapter for a stimulating conversation about Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future”. The book chronicles the many different ways that the Ministry promotes climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the resulting social and political unrest stemming from climate change impacts. Ursula Heise.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Join the WCS LA Chapter for a stimulating conversation about Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future”. The book chronicles the many different ways that the Ministry promotes climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the resulting social and political unrest stemming from climate change impacts.

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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Within FutuREstorative I included a list of books that have inspired me on my sustainability journey. in 2006 was not recognised outside of the science community. By the time you finish this book you will have become an Extinction Rebellion activist. This is Not a Drill : An Extinction Rebellion Handbook.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Esteemed professor and author Cees Buisman, whose renowned book explores how the growth of humanity depends on the growth of our consciousness, has been announced as a BlueNote speaker at global water technology event, BlueTech Forum (6-8 June 2022, Vancouver).

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The centre will be open to the public and group bookings during this time, as well as visiting Northern Ireland Science Festival events and local schools. For more information or to register interest for a group booking, visit GeoEnergyNI.org/Geothermal-Roadshow.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Meanwhile, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ) has warned that biodiversity is declining in every global region. Places can be booked now, at 09:00 (CET) or 17:00 (CET).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”. The post Gas Utility Sends Kid-Friendly Activity Books to Oregon Schools appeared first on DeSmog. NW Natural activity booklets sent to schools in the utility’s service area.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, and his work includes more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications on climate change, as well as several books. Mann's book, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet , is out now.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That was the stark title of the leaflets piled up outside the Birmingham & Midland Institute’s Lyttelton Theatre, where old school climate science denial was on open display on the outskirts of the Conservative party’s annual conference. Reform UK leader Richard Tice at the Bruges Group event. Credit: DeSmog. Question Time.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

You would not expect a book titled A Theory of Everyone to be anything other than bold, and Muthukrishna certainly delivers.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

What continues to define these people as "deniers" in my book is their unshaken belief that climate change is simply no big deal and there is no reason to go out of our way to prevent more of it. One reason people might be confused about how much climate deniers actually accept about the science is the vitriolic rhetoric of so many of them.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2019, the company was caught spying on reporters and helping orchestrate an operation to denigrate Carey Gillam , a book author and contributing writer for The Guardian. . Too often, people scrutinize science issues only if they fall within their narrow focus of interest: climate change, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leveraging the use of well-established principles such as mass-balancing and book-and-claim, the carbon capture and emission accounting mechanisms have been independently reviewed by a third-party verifier. With the CCUS projects already launched, the company aims to save 10 million tonnes of CO₂ cumulatively by 2030.

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Grist

DECEMBER 4, 2019

All disciplines of science are recognizing that we need long-term data,” said Taylor, who told Grist that solving a large-scale problem like climate change will require as much historical information as we can get our hands on.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Where they once denied climate science outright, companies now engage in “ discourses of delay ,” publicly accepting the science but working to stall climate policy by redirecting blame, pushing non-transformative solutions, and emphasizing the downsides of taking action.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The source for author Jordan Peterson’s recent claim that climate change cannot be modelled was a climate science denier who received money from a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies. million followers citing a book called “Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate” by S Fred Singer.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing. In response, on Monday, Mann talked about his wife and daughter, his love of teaching, mentoring, and supporting other scientists, and his “nerdy” science tendencies. Science works not because of individual genius.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 24, 2021

Headlines related to recent extreme weather appear to come out of a science fiction book: Even the richest countries in the world can’t control widespread fires — they’re even burning in the Arctic. Deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July 2021 completely washed away buildings. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 23, 2021

He’s also the author of the upcoming book “Electrify,” from MIT Press. And he has a PhD from MIT in materials science and information theory. If we are on a wartime footing for decarbonizing the economy, Saul could be considered a 5-star general of the “electrify everything” movement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Science, climate and clean tech writer and analyst joins BusinessGreen editor in chief James Murray to discuss his latest book Windfall, and Australia's ongoing political battles over climate action. Ketan Joshi is a leading energy, science and technology writer and analyst from Australia, who is now based in Norway.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

Unraveling how that came to be turned into a 20-month Rolling Stone magazine investigation , which won an award with the National Association of Science Writers, and an entire set of shocking DeSmog investigations. It is out of this unknowing, and deception, that this book can exist.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

million in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers in 2022. Anti-science climate change denialism has become the secret handshake that ushers in the faithful and bars the door to unbelievers,” Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JULY 4, 2022

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : The very hungry caterpillar needs food and shelter – and depending on its life-history traits, its requirements can be either decidedly specific or just as generic as the children’s book illustrates: A new study by Wurz et al.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

In her new book Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic , author, professor, and researcher Emily Monosson unravels the expansive and unsettling history of fungal invasions across the globe and how they have shaped our lives in both visible and invisible ways. But most of the book focuses on the past 100 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Taken together, it claims these measures will enable it to become a fully net zero emission company within the decade, in line with the standards of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), which require firms to only use offsets for a small proportion of their emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Dembicki’s book illuminates for the first time how these industry players profited from Canada’s oil sands and then spun those profits into international networks of climate denial that would help extend the oil sands’ lifetime. But part of the reason I wanted to do this book was to really educate readers in the U.S.,

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Even ExxonMobil, a company that has spent decades muddying the science on climate change, wrote in a recent report : “[On] a list of the biggest challenges facing humankind … addressing poverty and climate change would be at the top.”) Need to I rarely talk about the science of the climate threat, preferring to focus on that business case.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

Magnason’s book On Time and Water , recently released in the United States, is his attempt to answer that question. During the years he spent gathering research for his book, the world changed dramatically. What if the world will be saved before the book comes out?” Magnason found himself thinking. “It

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In that time, data science in the water industry has “noticeably moved in and moved on”. Dickenson said focus should be shifting towards fully integrating data science into business as usual operations, enabling decision makers to use data on a daily basis. For more details and to book visit www.britishwater.co.uk/events/dataconference2020-494.aspx

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Heriot-Watt University is launching a new Master of Science degree programme to provide advanced training in the increasingly urgent work of energy transition. Heriot Watt’s Orkney Campus.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 3, 2022

The Regenerative Playbook landed at the World Book Day Zoom Regenerative special event on the 1st of March. It was inspired by the Content Coms Little Books series which have been such a force for good. I thought that with thirty years of good science we could address these problems, but I was wrong. John Ennis.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 30, 2022

The Regenerative Playbook landed at the World Book Day Zoom Regenerative special event on the 1st of March. It was inspired by the Content Coms Little Books series which have been such a force for good. I thought that with thirty years of good science we could address these problems, but I was wrong. John Ennis. Jasper Goris.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Business accountability for human rights, including environmental and social justice beyond what is legally required, is the next chapter in the responsible leadership book. His credo was: "To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; study the art of science. A new type of humanism . Learn how to see.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Together with top-class coaches and speakers they further developed their business models and their communication skills and met numerous representatives from industry, science and politics who have become sponsors, partners and investors. Regular Q&A sessions can be booked here.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The University of Bristol professor decided to break that unspoken rule in her first book, Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity. “I In the book, which comes out in the United States this week, Wadham recounts three decades of her research expeditions all around the world.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

World-renowned climate scientist and author joins BusinessGreen for a chat about climate justice, US politics, dealing with climate deniers, and the science behind net zero. In addition to numerous plaudits and awards he has received throughout his career, Mann was earlier this year elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.

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