My conversation with a global health researcher about COVID-19
GatesNotes
JANUARY 12, 2022
I enjoyed talking to Professor Devi Sridhar about how we end this pandemic and prevent the next one.
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What role does ESG play in the 'new normal'?
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2020
In recent weeks and months, as many of us have "sheltered in place" in the face of a global pandemic, each of us has come to grips with a valuable reminder of what’s truly important: family, friends and colleagues; security and safety; food and water; healthcare. What role does ESG play in the 'new normal'? Janine Guillot.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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New publication asks: Is the UK government’s clean air approach good enough?
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 22, 2021
Academics and experts at The University of Manchester are calling for large-scale behavioural change in a bid to improve the UK’s air quality (“the biggest environmental health issue facing the UK”), in a new publication, On Air Quality. This is why we welcome this timely publication.”.
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The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems
GreenBiz
JULY 17, 2020
Bard MBA alum Nicole Pamani recently spoke with Isaac Nichelson, CEO and co-founder at Circular Systems , about how the company’s circular production processes are helping to redefine the meaning of sustainable materials in the fashion industry. The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems. Nicole Pamani.
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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni
GreenBiz
JUNE 29, 2020
We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. Mon, 06/29/2020 - 02:30. June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. .
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“Water shutoff ban saves lives”, says US research
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 22, 2021
Research highlighted at a recent water industry webinar appears to show that nearly half a million Covid-19 infections could have been prevented in the US alone if there had been a nationwide ban on water shutoffs. Access to water is vitally important for health, businesses and communities. Efficiency through innovation.
This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 8, 2020
This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread. Normally, that would be a wise choice, but during a pandemic, indoor shelters present new risks. Stand next to a panel, and you can feel it drawing heat away from your body. Gloria Oladipo. Thu, 10/08/2020 - 00:40. It’s just that it’s hot.".
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11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance
GreenBiz
MAY 10, 2021
With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30.
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Hard truths about tough times
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
I’m not sure how to characterize exactly how I feel. Will the next generation feel betrayed if we "win" the fight and things keep getting worse anyway? I’m struggling. Back in the day, I had a reputation as someone who always offered to my team a positive interpretation or hopeful outcome to supposed bad news.
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This study on using water and fans to cool down sounds silly. Here’s why it’s important.
Grist
AUGUST 12, 2020
You’d be forgiven if your initial reaction was a facepalm over how obvious that conclusion sounds, because that’s what this reporter initially did. As obvious as cooling off with fans and water sounds, it’s not obvious to all public health departments. Assembling in cooling centers could be deadly during a pandemic.
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A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change
Grist
JULY 5, 2022
And the cases that are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, are most likely the symptomatic cases, typically the ones that land people in hospitals. Warming temperatures are helping ticks shift their ranges into new areas, and warmer winters are helping the bloodsuckers survive from one year to the next.
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Empty labs, abandoned research: Coronavirus puts climate science on hold
Grist
MARCH 27, 2020
That’s the situation that Emily Bristol, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute, almost found herself in when her lab shut down on Tuesday to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Here’s how it could also help the planet. Article continues below. More in this series. Sasha Peterson. “I
20 Sustainable Business Practices for Your Workplace and Office
Green Business Bureau
OCTOBER 5, 2021
It can bring cost-savings through decreased utility bills and wastage, improve employee morale and health (and in turn, their commitment), and demonstrate to customers and partners that you’re taking strides to be environmentally and socially responsible. Go with no-VOC paints to protect employee health and limit airborne pollution.
'Massive challenge of translation': David Shukman warns complex language could hold back net zero transition
Business Green
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Players from across the climate movement and green economy need to sharpen up their language if they want to cut through to audiences and enlist citizens in the next phase of the net zero transition, according to veteran broadcaster David Shukman. This is a massive challenge of translation.
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ULEZ expansion declared 'success' as London NO2 emissions fall 20 per cent
Business Green
JULY 18, 2022
Mayor's Office reveals expansion of ultra-low emission zone has had positive impact on air quality, as it convenes gathering of Mayors from around the world to explore how to further improve air quality. And it said the changes to the ULEZ have helped prevent pollution levels in the capital from returning to pre-pandemic levels.
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How Covid-19 stimulus packages could drive record power sector emissions
Business Green
JULY 19, 2021
Hopes that the unprecedented levels of public spending released by governments in response to the Covid-19 crisis could drive a more rapid shift towards a greener, more sustainable global economy are looking increasingly frail 18 months into the pandemic.
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Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows now law
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 4, 2021
Measures to reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows became a legal requirement on 29 March, as part of “an ambitious agenda to build back greener from the pandemic” During wet weather, storm overflows act to prevent sewers becoming overloaded with a combination of sewage and rain and release diluted wastewater into rivers.
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Mobilising Finance for Forests: Government launches £150m rainforest protection push
Business Green
MARCH 12, 2021
The fund will focus on supporting local economies while curbing deforestation, for example through eco-friendly projects like harvesting nuts, seeds, and coffee sustainably, restoring lost forests, diversifying crops to prevent soil erosion, and launching conservation activities. In addition to protecting 2.1 In addition to protecting 2.1
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New Statewide Report Features Community-Informed Environmental Justice Recommendations
Front And Centered
DECEMBER 3, 2020
The Environmental Justice Task Force (EJ TF) report with recommendations on how Washington State can achieve EJ has been released! It contains 26 policy recommendations spanning four categories on how state agencies can incorporate EJ into their responsibilities. By Sameer Ranade , Civic Engagement and Policy Manager.
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Covid-19 and the environment: Three steps to help prevent the next pandemic
Business Green
MARCH 24, 2021
The world must change behaviour and practices, both personal and commercial, in order to tackle the route causes of pandemics, writes Ecosia CEO Christian Kroll. When Bill Gates said that ending the Covid-19 pandemic was easier than tackling the challenge of climate change, he was right. This is unacceptable.
Allowing cheap food imports would come at huge environmental cost for the UK
Business Green
MAY 29, 2020
The pandemic has exposed the fragility of UK food supply chains, and decisions made now could either increase or reduce future risk, argues WWF UK CEO Tanya Steele. Here in the UK, as we've queued in the supermarket or searched online, we have all become more conscious of how fragile our supply of food really is.
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AI Startups Raise Funding to Help Utilities De-Risk Dangers of Climate Change
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Pieter Verhoeven, CEO and co-founder of Myst AI, sees value in turning time series data into predictions of how energy systems operate — particularly futures that have no corresponding past to model them. Myst AI: Smarter energy forecasting from "non-stationary" data.
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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00. Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation. .
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Black Futures for Black History Month – Martha Foster
Front And Centered
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
This past year has put life in perspective for Martha, as she has taken the time to reflect on her father’s passing and how she can integrate the different parts of her cultural identity and family legacy of service and support right here in Washington State. Black Leaders on the Frontlines: Martha Foster, Emerging Young Leader.
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Coronavirus Response: What can we learn from Covid-19 help drive climate action?
Business Green
APRIL 14, 2020
Covid-19 and climate change are vastly different crises, but the public health threat they pose and means of overcoming them may hold similarities, argues the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Bearing this in mind, it makes sense to look at climate change through the same lens as that for Covid-19. What is required now is for policy to catch up.
2020: A heartening year for tackling the climate crisis
Business Green
DECEMBER 31, 2020
How does one even begin to talk about the year that is 2020? Not only did the pandemic affect our health and personal lives, it also fundamentally challenged our political, social, and economic norms too. It's been a year full of uncertainly and has presented challenges for so many people. This is a mammoth task.
Research: Building more sustainable food system could slash CO2 by 10 gigatonnes
Business Green
MARCH 22, 2022
Changing the way food is produced and consumed could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by more than 10 gigatonnes a year, a figure higher than pre-pandemic emissions from global transport and residential energy use combined, according to fresh research today. Moreover, a third of all food produced in the world - approximately 1.3
Could a UK heatwave exacerbate the coronavirus crisis?
Business Green
JUNE 2, 2020
The pandemic has, for example, shone a light on the importance of undervalued work such as waste and recycling collections to the day-to-day functioning of society. A great many frailties, structural problems, and inequalities sitting right at the heart of the economy have been exposed by the coronavirus crisis.
'Critical juncture': Charities warn Prime Minister pandemic response will determine if climate goals are met
Business Green
JUNE 14, 2020
In a letter sent to Boris Johnson today, more than 50 UK charities warn that preventing the worst impacts of climate change is contingent on a green recovery to the coronavirus crisis. What we urgently need to see now, and post-pandemic, is commitment from government on turning this into action.".
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Leveraging Data to Ease Energy Burdens for Low to Moderate Income Customers
Bidgely
MAY 3, 2021
By leveraging customer data to generate awareness, provide billing transparency, build trust, and target and engage customers, we can help LMI customers improve their comfort, health, and safety and reduce their energy burden. And, as a result of the pandemic, many customers are facing financial troubles for the first time.
CCC: Failure to adapt to 'inevitable' climate change could derail net zero transition
Business Green
JUNE 15, 2021
As a result, the UK is already facing a catalogue of physical threats to public health, infrastructure, and businesses which are costing the country billions of pounds each year, according to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) latest five-yearly comprehensive climate risk assessment.
Green recovery: UK business leaders urge PM to build a 'resilient economy' ahead of nationwide address
Business Green
MAY 7, 2020
It is now clearer than ever before that the health of humanity is inextricably bound to the health of our planet," the letter reads. "It It is now clearer than ever before that the health of humanity is inextricably bound to the health of our planet," the letter reads.
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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions
Business Green
AUGUST 9, 2021
The report is not focused on how the world should halt climate change - that is due in a separate IPCC report early next year. An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. The planet is at its warmest in 125,000 years.
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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Now, a new peer-reviewed study , published in the journal PLOS ONE , highlights how one particular form of fossil fuel extraction has pummeled the Appalachian region’s rivers and streams, including the Elk River – waters that the diamond darter and dozens of other endangered species call home. Mountaintop Mining.
Resilience post COVID-19
Business Green
MARCH 25, 2020
Ben Caldecott reflects on how a fixation on short-run cost optimisation has resulted in economic systems and business models that are not sufficiently resilient to shocks. In the UK we have designed our businesses, supply chains, market regulations, and public services in a way that systematically opens up our society to critical failures.
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The UK's short and long term climate plans must invest in nature
Business Green
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Of course, that parallel universe doesn't exist and instead, due to the impacts of the pandemic, we're now a year out from COP26. Of course, that parallel universe doesn't exist and instead, due to the impacts of the pandemic, we're now a year out from COP26. The UK has a legal commitment to decarbonise to reach net zero by 2050.
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'Boom and bust': Are coal and oil on the brink of permanent decline?
Business Green
APRIL 25, 2022
Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.
'Climate security is energy security': Alok Sharma urges world to 'break dependency on fossil fuels'
Business Green
MAY 16, 2022
In speech to mark sixth month anniversary of Glasgow Summit, COP26 President argues 'net zero means security, prosperity, and preventing the problems of the present from growing inexorably'. And globally, people are struggling to feed their families -all as we continue to deal with the effects of the pandemic. Debt is mounting.
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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.
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'Investing in our future': EU touts green infrastructure blitz at heart of ?1.85tr recovery plan
Business Green
MAY 27, 2020
It follows widespread support and vocal calls for a green economic recovery from the pandemic led by businesses, major investors, influential politicians, and millions of healthcare workers and citizens over the past two months, heaping pressure on the Commission to step up to the plate. This is Europe's moment," she said.
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Global Briefing: EU Commission targets €20bn annual support for nature restoration
Business Green
MAY 22, 2020
By planting three billion trees over the next decade, increasing organic farming to a quarter of agricultural land, reversing the decline of bee populations, cutting pesticide use in half, and restoring at least 25,000km of EU rivers to a free-flowing state, the strategy promises to "fix our broken relationship with nature".
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‘We can’t recycle our way out’
Grist
OCTOBER 1, 2022
But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Should packaging all be the same color of plastic to avoid dye-based contamination in recycling processes?
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The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems
AGreenLiving
JULY 17, 2020
Bard MBA alum Nicole Pamani recently spoke with Isaac Nichelson, CEO and co-founder at Circular Systems , about how the company’s circular production processes are helping to redefine the meaning of sustainable materials in the fashion industry. Nicole Pamani: Tell us the Agraloop story.
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This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread
AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 8, 2020
This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread Gloria Oladipo Thu, 10/08/2020 – 00:40 In the face of dangerous heat waves this summer, Americans have taken shelter in air-conditioned cooling centers. Normally, that would be a wise choice, but during a pandemic, indoor shelters present new risks. It’s just that it’s hot.”
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