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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

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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John Thackara: What does the future hold for humanity?

Low Impact

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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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

It’s quiet, dark, and cool, even on a summer day. Losing the hemlock, the book says, is like “losing a conductor and the music.”. In the spring, as the sun beams down and melts snow and ice elsewhere, hemlock preserve circles of snow at their trunks, which leech slowly into nearby streams and creeks and keeps them cool.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

In between all that, and various other advisory roles besides, the 68-year-old also managed to write five books on climate and energy. The new regime will shift towards an economic rewards system that actually encourages carbon sequestration in woodlands and soils, as well as biodiversity uplift." So that's my aspiration."

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

You double-book and spend just as much time picking what to prioritize as you do once you’re actually there. 🌳 NatureMetrics , an Egham, United Kingdom-based DNA-based biodiversity monitoring platform, raised $13M. Where we’ll be at NY Climate Week New York Climate Week is so, well, New York.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018. UAE, Switzerland and France.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018. UAE, Switzerland and France.