Fairsnape

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Fast forward to Rob’s latest book, What If …From What Is To What If … What if we had undertaken that construction re-skilling back then?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Joel Makower talks to the former Unilever boss about his new book, 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take'. An icon of sustainable business has a new book. Joel Makower: So, Paul, this is your first book. What inspired you to write a book? Does net positive help get us there?

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 31, 2020

Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is an opportunity to reflect on how can we better understand the human potential to preserve biodiversity, get closer to nature and guide our future actions. Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is the first phase of a vast project designed to find and implement solutions for the future.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the world struggles to combat climate change, the need for a sustainable economy is more urgent than ever. It’s leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions which are affecting our ecosystems and contributing to climate change. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

After all, we're making a lot of progress as humanity in finding the technological solutions to tackle climate change and reduce carbon. Obviously it's right to focus on climate change, obviously it's right to cut CO2 emissions, but we won't achieve a real balance with our planet unless we protect nature as well.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our data, platforms, and services are powerful tools for addressing critical planetary challenges including climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian emergencies. I’m proud to announce that Planet has appointed Andrew Zolli as Planet’s new Chief Impact Officer. .

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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.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It wasn’t just pandemic malaise…I was mostly working on a new book with the former Unilever CEO, the great Paul Polman. Our overall purpose with this book is to help leaders raise their ambitions and build companies that profit by solving the world’s problems, not creating them. and much more. and much more.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

My inbox and bookshelf have been groaning lately under the heft of some weighty books, essays and reports heralding a kinder, gentler era for capitalism. Can sustainability save capitalism? Joel Makower. Tue, 03/30/2021 - 02:11. This idea isn’t exactly new.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

After nearly a year of renovations, the Netherlands’ prized Naturalis Biodiversity Center — a museum and research center with one of the largest natural history collections in the world — has just reopened to the public. Naturalis Biodiversity Center reopens with a sustainable, future-proof renovation. The rest is here:Â .

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. Ideas for building a supply chain resilient to both short-term disruptions such as the pandemic and long-term risks such as climate change. EDT June 16.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 9, 2021

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Aubrey McCormick Fri, 04/09/2021 – 02:00 Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets. UPM has developed a range of indicators and methods to monitor a net positive impact on biodiversity, he added.

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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. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C.

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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 used to think that the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem col­lapse, and climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

In the UK, XR put climate change back on the political agenda at the highest level, and made the public conscious that we were so far off our scientific targets," she says. "We We also helped alert the media to it, and exposed its lack of engagement and storytelling on the issue which was often distorted and infrequent.

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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 used to think that the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem col­lapse, and climate change.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action…].

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. I attempted to lay out some options for how companies should think about this ongoing emergency that runs hand-in-hand with climate change. Understand your biodiversity footprint. [Another piece I didn't post from some months back.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

Her work — in blogs, scholarship, professional services and a forthcoming book — reminds professionals that deals made on the backs of oppressed people are no deals at all. . One is looking at Mexico, and the tension between climate change mitigation and justice for communities. Energy & Climate. Biodiversity.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

What inspired you to work fighting climate change? If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. What’s one thing about climate innovation that you wish more people knew? That there’s hope!

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

This is part 1 of a conversation with John Thackara – senior fellow of the Royal College of Art, visiting professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, founder and director of the Doors of Perception sustainable design conferences, and author of many books, including How to Thrive in the Next Economy. Hello John. Good Morning. Fair question.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Broaden your perspective with these 22 books by Indigenous authors. Tune in to the global discussion around food insecurity and its tie to climate change, and improve your company’s food waste management. Support biodiversity by including native plants in your landscaping. Hosting a movie screening.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Some of the apocalyptic predictions about climate change you’ve heard about were likely based on a scenario which many scientists say is no longer probable. Take the best-selling book, The Uninhabitable Earth. Remember that high-end fossil-fuel intensive scenario with no climate policy to 2100, & no climate impacts?

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This new book, ‘A Small Farm Future’ published by Chelsea Green, outlines what a post-covid, post-capitalist society might look like, built around a repopulated countryside of small farmers. However, in this review, I won’t go into the details of farming covered in the book. But does it have to be that way?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The WBA is pulling every misleading trick in the book to claim bioenergy is clean and green, including actually over-representing the amount of energy burning trees provides,” Mary Booth, director of Partnership for Policy Integrity, a U.S. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections.

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Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

But, as David Quammen writes in his book Spillover , a note in his medical history jumps out: He had recently helped to prepare meals that included chicken, domestic cat, and snake. For pandemics and climate change, voluntary measures aren’t enough. Coronavirus postpones major climate plan in Congress.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

Last November at United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26 , 141 countries signed the Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on Forests and Land Use committing to “halt and reverse forest loss by 2030.” . Soy expansion was no longer permitted to clear forests, but also there was better enforcement of the rules that were on the books.”.

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Varuna

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The water utility industry has an opportunity to improve its infrastructure to meet the demands of climate change and customer needs. On the other hand, changing customer needs in the water supply sector is transforming the face of service delivery in the sector.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Treasury said the green gilt was both the largest inaugural green issuance by any sovereign, while also attracting the largest ever order book for a sovereign green transaction. Government bonds, or gilts, are sold to institutional investors and provide a fixed rate of return until their expiry.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

"It is characterised by adverse trends in many areas, frequent failure to make progress towards targets, and a lack of progress in addressing existential risks, including from climate change." Just this week Environment Secretary Therese Coffey again offered assurances to a Parliamentary committee that the targets would be met.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

The spotlight It’s no secret that climate change poses a threat to our agricultural systems. And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply. If arabica is Goldilocks, climate change is an angry bear.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The controversial Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - a move originally championed by Jacob Rees-Mogg during his brief stint as Business Secretary - is designed to strike remaining EU laws from the statute books by the end of 2023.

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