Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

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Fairsnape

JULY 23, 2019

Tell the Truth: The first objective of call of extinction rebellion is to recognise that a climate emergency exists and to tell the truth. And, if anyone is setting up, or knows of a construction sector emergency declaration, I would be more than keen to assist/support. The second is to Act Now.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Grist

MAY 12, 2020

The ability to take things for granted stems in part from ignorance, Tong writes in her recent book The Reality Bubble. A recent survey found many people would prefer to remain ignorant rather than learn unpleasant truths, whether it’s how climate change might affect their hometown, or what other people really think about them.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. And I decided to go back to my ancestors' place to do it, which would be Ireland, so I could understand the ancients; I could understand what it is like to be humble in a place, and then what it would be like to build a solar-powered house in Ireland. How exciting.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

The public’s interest in environment-driven collapse picked up in 2005 with the publication of Jared Diamond’s book Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Some took issue with the interpretations in the book. The new story about Rapa Nui is more complicated.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

The Numbers Hide the Truth About Real Costs. In our book Net Positive , we explore ways to build businesses that solve societal problems and improve the well-being of everyone they impact. So why do so many in business still feel that sustainability doesn’t “pencil out”? The societal losses also cost business directly.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Climate sceptic and delaying advisors who fail to grasp this simple truth should be nowhere near the prime minister’s top team.”. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian. BP-Funded Think Tank. ‘Let Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. But the independence of these outlets’ reporters is not in question.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2022

Art Afterwards: A Book Discussion – The National Portrait Gallery and the DC Public Library will host a virtual conversation about love, second chances, and the power of a great torch song. The group will analyze a portrait of Ella Fitzgerald and discuss the related book, “Seven Days in June” by Tia Williams.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

How can it show its climate concern, when its loan book shows the opposite? Yes, there's a need for methodology, but in truth, it's not rocket science. The UK has no chance of reaching its domestic net-zero goal until British bank lending to fossil fuels is reined in. This poses a huge problem for institutions like Barclays.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This debt could become a major lever for forcing companies to adopt more robust decarbonisation plans, given the vast majority of leading banks now have their own net zero goals that will require them to decarbonise their loan books over the coming decades. warming pathway.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Almost a half century before Al Gore’s seminal film and book, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the conference organizers produced what appears to be the first publication devoted entirely to the subject of CO2 and climate change. Finally, Lionel Walford of the U.S. Ordway, Jr., A list of these 700 selected recipients has not yet been located.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Would the food consumption trends driven by the pandemic wind up as a paragraph in the history books — like the ” victory gardens ” of World War II — or could it lead to lasting change? “But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand.” They also looked more agile and resilient.

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Grist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But a new book challenges that narrative. The last line of the book says that with climate change, there’s less and less water, and “we don’t know how far below us the floor lies.” States are dipping into Lake Mead’s reserves, overdrawing 1.2 How do you plan for the future if you don’t know where the bottom is?

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

In a recent Twitter thread , Sky News' Ed Conway, who is working on a book on the transformation underway in the commodities markets called Material World, highlighted how each wind farm needs around 15 tonnes of copper for each megawatt of capacity. No one much likes to talk abt this.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There are some hard truths involved in engineering mobility for the future. The hard truth is that designs must be engineered for reliability, lower weight, and flawless operation, while still managing to sparkle on the showroom floor. This figure accounts for both fully battery-powered and hybrid propulsion system vehicles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Juniper, a former executive director of Friends of the Earth who has also co-authored a book on climate change with King Charles when the monarch was Prince of Wales, is scheduled to deliver the speech at Natural England's 'Farming for food and nature' conference in Birmingham today.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

One of my favorite books and movies is the Big Short. ” There is a lot of truth to that. I think there is truth in the saying that storage is the early days of solar, but it’s not just about a cost reduction curve. For every investment that we make, we take pride in the fact that we do so with our eyes wide open.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

There are some hard truths involved in engineering mobility for the future. The hard truth is that designs must be engineered for reliability, lower weight, and flawless operation, while still managing to sparkle on the showroom floor. This figure accounts for both fully battery-powered and hybrid propulsion system vehicles.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Publicly and loudly support truth, science, and scientists. Andrew's book, The Big Pivot, was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business Magazine! The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. F) is still technically possible.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 8, 2020

Don’t miss this one-on-one interview featuring GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower and well-respected sustainability consultant John Elkington, who recently published his 20th book, “Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.” Can’t join live? All of these events also will be available on demand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture. George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. At the end of the year, Time Magazine named 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as their youngest “Person of the Year” ever. People are taking notice.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are some hard truths involved in engineering mobility for the future. The hard truth is that designs must be engineered for reliability, lower weight, and flawless operation, while still managing to sparkle on the showroom floor. This figure accounts for both fully battery-powered and hybrid propulsion system vehicles.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

But amid the pronouncements and declarations of intent, a number of inconvenient truths remain. Shortly afterwards, the bank launched a new corporate strategy with climate change at its core, committing to halving the emissions of its loan book by 2030. As it stands, these flows are - to put it mildly - too small.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He asked the jury to consider the same question about Steyn and Simberg, the two climate deniers found guilty of defaming Mann: Did they believe what they wrote was the truth, or did they just want to push their agenda? “Because they truly believe what they say or because they want to further their agenda?”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

million tonnes of carbon emissions to date and confirmed that it will continue to offset on behalf of its customers for flights booked until the end of this year. Once the truth is exposed, offsetting loses its greenwashing magic and stands revealed for what it really is - an alibi to allow big carbon polluters to carry on polluting.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The truth is, I don’t believe you have to change your lifestyle to be an activist. Every time I pick up a book from before the 1960s, there are always young people criticizing the system and saying, “Hey, this isn’t possible. We won’t be strong enough if we do it individually. It has to be collective.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Investor-owned utilities, like NW Natural, have “built up an information environment around those regulators where they produce nearly everything they read or consume,” utility watchdog David Pomerantz explains in Kate Aronoff’s book Overheated. “If But utilities aren’t going quietly.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Construction work on Masdar City - in truth a suburb of Abu Dhabi's central urban area, rather than an entirely separate city - began in 2009, but progress since has been somewhat slower than originally envisaged. This in fact represents a massive opportunity," he said during a speech this week.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The truth, as ever, is complicated, with the Budget having left many unanswered questions and kicking several crucial issues down the road, while at the same time serving up a raft of potentially game-changing green policies that look set to further embed climate action right at the heart of the UK's financial establishment.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. And I decided to go back to my ancestors’ place to do it, which would be Ireland, so I could understand the ancients; I could understand what it is like to be humble in a place, and then what it would be like to build a solar-powered house in Ireland.

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T Rex Group

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Book a Meeting at T-REX’s Cabana. Book a Meeting at our Cabana. To book, please email sales@trexgroup.com or call +1 646 609 8888. . Topics: Standardization and centralization of data – operating off a single source of truth. Roundtable Discussion on the Challenges Facing Private Fixed Income Markets.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But the truth of the matter is that these were neighborhoods with no homes, so that water was not getting to the people who needed it. It includes the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act of 1972. This correlation has a direct effect on Social Justice. We sought to correct the mistake.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

This piece is adapted from the forthcoming book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next , which will be published by University of California Press in September. In truth, we should have begun them 40 years ago. The fires of 2020 seemed to be everywhere, a pyric pandemic. Something flipped.

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 30, 2023

For one, its ability to establish a single source of truth, consistent among all parties involved in a deal could drastically reduce inefficiencies and costs by providing trackable, transparent, and auditable data throughout the securitization lifecycle. Make sure to attend and hear what trends T-REX is planning for in 2023.

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