DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

Other recipients of Aurea funding that have downplayed or denied the catastrophic consequences of global temperature rise include the Frontier Centre for Public Policy , the Montreal Economic Institute and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (which in 2019 merged with Fraser). They in turn belong to a U.S.

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Terra Infirma

MAY 10, 2021

I’m halfway through the four year term I won in 2019, but I was campaign manager and agent for our candidate for the second seat in the ward, and we missed out by a few percentage points after throwing everything at it. One of my personal resilience tactics for elections has been to set a challenge for myself for the summer.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 28, 2021

As people plan summer vacations while navigating COVID-19 , many are looking toward the great outdoor spaces of our 423 national park sites. This summer, some of the most popular national parks are implementing reservation systems to cut down on crowding. from 2019, with 237 million recreational visits, according to NPS stats.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

That perspective indicates a subtle evolution from last summer, when CEO John Carrington told GTM that he was more interested in growing the company and executing its strategy than seeking an imminent exit for investors. That transition included layoffs last summer. As a leadership team, we need to take that seriously.". Overall U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

Even after years of summer vacations in Maine, at the southernmost reaches of the loon’s habitat, Wells hasn’t tired of their calls. In the 1960s, marine biologist-turned-journalist Rachel Carson published the book Silent Spring. “I leaped out of bed and ran into my parents’ bedroom, like, ‘What is that?’”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Specifically, NatWest said it had lent £728m in green mortgages to retail customers to date, helping to increase the energy efficiency rating of the retail mortgages in its loan book from 36 per cent at EPC rating A-C equivalent in 2020, up to to 38 per cent in 2021. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - also known as the Brexit Freedoms Bill - is designed to strike the remaining EU laws from the UK's statute book by 2023, which environmental groups have warned could impact as many as 570 retained laws that come under the remit of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 – 00:50 With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. Farhana Yamin glued herself to Shell's London HQ in 2019. The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

[Hi all, Happy summer. The Arctic will be ice-free in the summer (this will allow ships to move freely in this region, which is technically good for shorter supply chains but a Pyrrhic victory at best). Trade wars and tariffs are all the rage in 2019. Where will we be in 2030? Will that trend continue? Get your copy here.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

[Hi all, Happy summer. The Arctic will be ice-free in the summer (this will allow ships to move freely in this region, which is technically good for shorter supply chains but a Pyrrhic victory at best). Trade wars and tariffs are all the rage in 2019. I haven't written as much this year (i'm hoping it's quality over quantity?),

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2021

We capture real time information about open seats, then make those seats available to book through our app. We raised a Series-A funding round in November 2019 and since then are focused on building the next iteration of a delightful product. We also make it easy for people to crowdsource and start new vanpools. What are we up to?

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

So if you feel a bit constrained that you can't fly abroad this summer, remember that you're now temporarily in the same, normal situation as the 80 per cent of humanity who have never set foot on a plane. Astonishingly, more British people took flights abroad pre-crisis than from any other country in the world.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

One 2019 study showed that the United States alone could lose $520 billion across 22 sectors due to global temperature rise. A trial is scheduled for this summer. A 2019 report by U.S. The results are likely to affect the supply chains of every business , whether directly or indirectly. The potential losses are also huge.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In the late summer of 2019, Candé set out for Europe. Candé then headed to Libya, where he could book a cheaper raft to Italy. The shift in climate had made for more mosquitos, and with them more disease. But there was another way — to go to Europe. His brothers had done it. His family encouraged him to try. He never made it.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The campaign follows a survey of residents carried out by the council last summer which found 44 per cent wanted it to provide greater guidance on what they could do to tackle the climate emergency. This is about individuals, households, business and community groups. We all have a role and responsibility in this space.".

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

From an emissions standpoint, Climate Week 2020 may go in the books as the greenest of all time. . Last year on the eve of Climate Week 2019, employees from big tech companies planned a walkout , demanding their employers take climate seriously across operations. Sessions and panels were virtual. There were no breakfast buffets.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For example, as Mann notes in his book “The New Climate War”, the government of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison acted to distract the public from the conversation on climate change and the bushfire crisis. Flooding in 2019 destroyed her house. And it doesn’t have to be that way.”. Swain echoed this. “I

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bloom announced its first fuel cells that can run on hydrogen in June 2019. Last summer it expanded its scope to making electrolyzers — essentially reversing a typical fuel cell’s conversion of hydrogen into electricity and water. percent from 2019. Bloom reported fourth-quarter revenue of $249.4 million, up 16.8

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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

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

His collar is open just enough to glimpse a gold pendant gleaming in the early summer sunshine. Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

” So Miller, who launched the platform in the fall of 2019 to provide funding to small, sustainably run farms — operations often underserved by traditional finance — soon found himself expanding Steward’s services to help these same farmers shift their business model.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

However, many view it as a huge setback to regional climate efforts and, as DeSmog previously reported , the assertion that demand will grow in the coming decades belies the relatively stringent climate regulations on the books in multiple states in the region, which require gas utilities to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

This week, delegates and advocates are gathering in Ottawa, Canada, for the fourth intergovernmental negotiating committee, or INC-4 — the second-to-last session on the books before the U.N.’s during the summer. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

My dad would bring home lab cars—like a library book, but it was a car. In summer 2010, I started reaching out to Tesla. We partnered with Inside Sales out of Palo Alto—they acted as kind of a booking agent. Inside Sales would book drives, and I’d go conduct test drives at peoples’ homes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The Telegraph’s print circulation at the end of 2019, when it last released the data, was over 300,000. Debates around ULEZ and net zero raged throughout the summer. A poll conducted in September, shortly after the announcement, found that over half of those who voted for the Conservative Party in 2019 still backed net zero targets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calls for the government to match its ambitious goals with stronger regulations to crack down on pollution and greater investment in nature recovery are only set to mount as the Chancellor preps his first Budget and the government proceeds with its controversial plans to strip out EU law from the UK's statute book.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

New Prime Minister promises to place Conservative 2019 manifesto at heart of his administration as Grant Shapps replaces Jacob Rees-Mogg at BEIS. We welcome his pledge to deliver on the 2019 manifesto, which promised the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on Earth," said Hall.

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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. Australian firefighters battle a spot fire in Hillville, Australia in 2019. The fires of 2020 seemed to be everywhere, a pyric pandemic.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 22, 2019

Clean Energy Trust’s Mid-Year Update Dear Friends of Clean Energy Trust, Summer arrived with a vengeance this past week here in Chicago after a rainy and chilly start. Please let us know if you would like to review our Portfolio Book with brief descriptions of the companies we support.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

From an emissions standpoint, Climate Week 2020 may go in the books as the greenest of all time. Last year on the eve of Climate Week 2019, employees from big tech companies planned a walkout , demanding their employers take climate seriously across operations. Sessions and panels were virtual. There were no breakfast buffets.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Detailing them all would require a book, if not several, to explain and goes beyond the scope of this blog. Sleipnir installing the Leviathan platform in the Mediterranean Sea, summer 2019. Assuming optimal conditions during summer times with 6 peak sun hours, a total daily energy production of 28.0 MWh is obtained.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In fact, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2019 after federal authorities claimed in a civil suit that Gilligan Sewell and 7S defrauded investors of nearly $7 million. There is no Starbucks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In fact, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2019 after federal authorities claimed in a civil suit that Gilligan Sewell and 7S defrauded investors of nearly $7 million. There is no Starbucks.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. In the summer, the process is converse, and the heat pump moves heat from the indoor air into the heat exchanger. heat exchanger-a system of pipes covered in the shallow ground near the building.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

First Solar reversed its recent string of quarterly losses in the third quarter of 2019, with lower revenues from its U.S. And the Arizona-based company continues to grow its module business, with third-quarter bookings at 5.4 Total expected shipments and bookings for the year grew by 1.1 gigawatts to stand at 12.4

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