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.

Climate change 78

Climate change Biodiversity Health Sustainability 78

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. But most of the book focuses on the past 100 years.

Agriculture 80

Agriculture Climate change Health North America 80

GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Responsible leadership is a dynamic and continuous exercise of seeing, understanding and addressing your organization’s role in society and in the market, tackling three mutually reinforcing sets of emergencies and their impact on stakeholders: The climate emergency, the biodiversity emergency and the growing socioeconomic divide.

Sustainability 385

Sustainability Biodiversity Resilience Health 385

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.

Biodiversity 78

Biodiversity Sustainability Incubators Incubators 78

The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As Oxford professor Dieter Helm points out in his latest book – Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – we need to mend our ways in order to meet the needs of future generations. Many businesses and governments put profits and short-term gains over the long-term health of our planet.

Sustainability 195

Sustainability Fossil fuels Climate change Government 195

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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Sustainability Climate change Organic Biodiversity 430

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.

Biodiversity 78

Biodiversity Sustainability Incubators Incubators 78

GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

For example, PETA considers docking tails of sheep to be inhumane, yet it is long-standing practice that arguably improves the health of animals. Biodiversity. As chief conservation officer of TNC at the time, I can say that I was not very happy with these practices, but I thought some of the allegations were overblown. Conservation.

Agriculture 360

Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 360

Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

That awful list translates into serious impacts on humans, including threats to food and water security, health risks and the spread of disease, loss of biodiversity (that is, the web of life we rely on), infrastructure breakdown, and what the U.S. military calls “threat multipliers” that affect national security. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Climate change Law Sustainability Demand 148

GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

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. These things are absolutely vital to the health and wellbeing of future generations, so we all need to do our best to make things better.".

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Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 545

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. Sustainability and business 3.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

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. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.

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COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

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. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Construction 130

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?

Agriculture 139

Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity. We are on the brink of a world in which the orangutan and the black rhino can be found not in the jungles of Borneo or the savannahs of Africa, but confined to the pages of a history book. There is the very fact of this summit, the first of its kind.

Biodiversity 51

Biodiversity Africa Law Health 51

Fairsnape

JULY 23, 2019

And in doing so recognising that business as usual sustainability (BAUS) has not moved the needle on carbon, global climate temperatures or biodiversity. Act Now – Declare : Only with greater transparency in respect of the products we use, can we address impacts our buildings have on human, biodiversity and planetary health.

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Construction Biodiversity Sustainability Carbon 60

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

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. That has enormous health consequences.”. Loss of biodiversity can also cause diseases to spread more widely.

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Medicine Climate change Health Africa 143

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.

Biodiversity 82

Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Waste 82

Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action…].

Biodiversity 60

Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Understand your biodiversity footprint. Hope comes through action.].

Biodiversity 60

Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

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 9, 2021

Economist sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the response to his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity. Feminist scholars have argued that when the overriding goal of family planning has been to reduce population, the results have actually been detrimental to women's health.

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Biodiversity Government Health Africa 36

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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Government Biodiversity Policy Health 36

Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

It has also provided, as Barbara Griggs writes in her excellent book ‘Green Pharmacy, a history of herbal medicine’, a flimsy legal roof under which (the profession of herbal medicine) has sheltered and flourished to this day in Britain. Herbs are used primarily for health promotion and therapy for chronic conditions.

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Medicine Health Africa Law 90

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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Government Law Biodiversity Policy 68

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 40

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. By necessity, modern farming has become a global, well-oiled machine. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

The program, dubbed AI for Earth , is finding and funding innovators who are making progress in four critical areas — climate change, water, agriculture, and biodiversity. Andrew's book, The Big Pivot, was named a Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy+Business Magazine! Follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewWinston.

Agriculture 60

Agriculture Africa Cooling Biodiversity 60

Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Having left her UNFCCC role in 2016, Figueres has remained steadfastly committed to the climate cause, co-founding the Global Optimism Group, co-writing a book, and co-hosting a hugely popular podcast, Outrage and Optimism, in addition to sitting on the boards of various businesses and organisations.

Climate change 62

Climate change Fossil fuels Biodiversity Education 62

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Second, there’s a growing realization that a focus on one key stakeholder or metric is as flawed as using your cholesterol level as the only measure of your health. But in his book Saving Capitalism from Short-Termism , he makes a compelling case that our real issue is short-termism and how we think about “value.” Get your copy here.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Second, there’s a growing realization that a focus on one key stakeholder or metric is as flawed as using your cholesterol level as the only measure of your health. But in his book Saving Capitalism from Short-Termism , he makes a compelling case that our real issue is short-termism and how we think about “value.” Get your copy here.

Fossil fuels 60

Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

For example, PETA considers docking tails of sheep to be inhumane, yet it is long-standing practice that arguably improves the health of animals. As chief conservation officer of TNC at the time, I can say that I was not very happy with these practices, but I thought some of the allegations were overblown.

Agriculture 28

Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 28

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book " The Good Ancestor " is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. He argues persuasively that, in addition to large-scale, self-inflicted wounds, humanity’s "capacity to think and plan over long timespans is wired into our brains and has enabled monumental feats."

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

And as coffee growers venture into new regions, they’ll tear down more trees, threatening biodiversity and transforming even more forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. These ingredients have historically been more accessible than coffee, and sometimes confer purported health benefits. per pound in 2022.

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Startups Agriculture Climate change Upcycling 55

Grist

MAY 15, 2024

” — Christina Figueres, climate advocate and diplomat, in her 2020 book The Future We Choose The spotlight How do we know that the climate is changing — and that humans are causing it? They found that the wildfire smoke led to lifelong health impacts. To a certain extent, we can see and feel it ourselves. .

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Climate change Health Biodiversity Carbon 61

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

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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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52