Grist

MARCH 21, 2024

As a journalist covering climate, he’s had years of experience reporting on electrification, energy, and technology — and demystifying those often complex topics for the average consumer. Still, that doesn’t mean that renovating a home to be more climate-friendly is easy, or cheap, as Tik and his wife discovered.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It is important not to overstate the strength of arguments against climate action that have repeatedly falied to gain traction. Over the past decade this loose grouping has argued against renewables, only to watch them become the lowest cost form of new power capacity and backbone of the energy system. This is sage advice.

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Grist

MAY 12, 2020

Article continues below. This doctor is prescribing climate action. Coronavirus is a make-or-break moment for climate change, economists say. Just as scientists warned us about a pandemic, they have spent decades trying to raise the alarm about climate change and a host of other environmental problems.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Implications of climate change. The implications of climate change are systemic and apparent, with extraordinary weather events including flooding, drought, storms and wildfires increasing in frequency, with significant financial and human consequences globally. Managing the risks posed by climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

Delaying net zero will not only increase costs, but keep us vulnerable to Putin and Co's every whim. These organisations and their friends have spent a large part of their existence undermining climate science. When that failed, they began claiming climate change would actually be of benefit to us. A major cause? The result?

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

She is the closest thing the world has to a climate conscience and deserves all the plaudits going. The climate movement, like any change movement, needs an inside and outside game. And yet, today's reaction to the unveiling of the EU's new Climate Law still grated. "We Much of this criticism is justified.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

At the same time as campaigners were gathered on the footsteps of the Court of Appeal waiting to hear whether the government's approval for Heathrow expansion, just over a mile away at the City of London's Guildhall Mark Carney was sketching out a vision of how to remake the entire global financial system to build a net zero economy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. For those who spend their lives in the countryside, city visits can feel chaotic, confusing, and loud in comparison. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

Over the past week the government's most senior figures have all gone out of their way to signal that climate action will be right at the heart of their imminent economic recovery plan. They improve energy security, reduce air pollution, and boost climate resilience. This is extremely good news.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2021

Energy needs represent one of telecommunications operators’ highest and fastest growing expenses; rising electricity prices can cause multimillion-dollar increases in their operating costs. Cooling existing equipment and adding new sites to cater for 5G wireless networks will add to burgeoning energy costs. Thu, 06/10/2021 - 00:05.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Costco declined to be interviewed for this article). How are these two brick and mortar retail giants tackling Scope 3 emissions in their supply chains? The answer lies in what’s left unsaid as much as what’s disclosed. Costco and Walmart; the tale of two supply chains. Their supply chains are vast and complex.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, what struck Patterson was the family in the foreground: As a man throws a wooden club to knock chestnuts from the branches above, a child shells the nuts and a woman gathers them in a basket. Even the dog seems engrossed in the process, watching with head cocked as the club sails through the air. He sounded wistful. Courtesy of the RMSC.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice? every first Wednesday. “I forget that this isn’t normal,” he says.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. A shorter version of this article was published in Utility Dive. For example, the 2035 Report 2.0

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Typically undertaken every 20 years, the exercise normally costs upwards of a billion dollars , once capital expenditure and revenues lost through halted production is taken into account. But the ‘green' transformation of the steel sector is not just a climate imperative.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The cost of energy and raw materials is soaring as geopolitical tensions mount - can the journey to zero emission road transport navigate the latest bumps in the road? Waiting times have lengthened at the same time as order books have continued to swell. From televisions to food, supply chain disruption has become the new normal.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 10, 2021

Telco plus utility = Energy savings and modernized infrastructure Energy needs represent one of telecommunications operators’ highest and fastest growing expenses; rising electricity prices can cause multimillion-dollar increases in their operating costs. Network failures are often high-profile, and their negative effects can be lasting.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 10, 2021

Telco plus utility = Energy savings and modernized infrastructure Energy needs represent one of telecommunications operators’ highest and fastest growing expenses; rising electricity prices can cause multimillion-dollar increases in their operating costs. Network failures are often high-profile, and their negative effects can be lasting.

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Low Impact

MAY 25, 2020

This is the third in a series of articles about community wealth building and mutual credit , by Dave Darby and Dil Green of Lowimpact.org and the Open Credit Network. Further, software implementations of these systems in conjunction with the internet greatly increase reach and utility while reducing transaction costs. Mutual credit.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

But as Democrats turn their attention to infrastructure measures potentially costing trillions of dollars, that focus needs broadening. Often the most cost-effective infrastructure is not made of concrete or steel, but soil. If farmers deploy the right practices, soil can limit the huge cost of floods and safeguard food supply. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. This impressive history shows for just how long climate issues were known by Shell personnel,” said Ben Franta, senior research fellow in climate litigation at the University of Oxford.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. It amounts to a level of extinction risk that is higher than at any point in human history.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

But as Democrats turn their attention to infrastructure measures potentially costing trillions of dollars, that focus needs broadening. Often the most cost-effective infrastructure is not made of concrete or steel, but soil. If farmers deploy the right practices, soil can limit the huge cost of floods and safeguard food supply.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The year voters in the planet's pre-eminent superpower rejected a racist, misogynist, climate denier in favour of a man who pledged to engineer a net zero emission economy by mid-century. of warming by 2100 - a still dangerous level of climate change but a remarkable achievement given just five years ago the projection was for around 3C.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Though the stock market is at an all-time high (weird), there is much talk about impending economic doom. One that can propel us to a sustainable all-time economic high. Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. It is summer 2020.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Usually the biggest environmental news pertains to climate change at the global level, or local pollution problems such as lead in the water pipes. Wildlife,” on the other hand, seems always to be waiting in the political wings. Biodiversity” gained traction as an issue in the 1990s, but seems to have slipped off the public’s radar.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It took centuries to build all those homes from wood and brick and steel and concrete, but, if we’re to seriously address the climate crisis, we have only a few years to remake them. So far, the climate debate has gone on mostly in people’s heads and hearts. We can solve the climate crisis.”. This is one object at a time.”.

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