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…].

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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.].

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60

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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Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Waste 82

Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Juniper will argue that the future of agriculture is heavily reliant on a healthy environment, and that it is possible for farmers to secure a good income from food production while also protecting and restoring nature and biodiversity, as the government's proposed farming subsidy reforms schemes aim to achieve.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Even the Treasury is looking at rewriting its Green Book to better account for environmental considerations. It is in this context that this week's highly contentious but hugely wide-ranging Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity might just become the breakthrough moment that is so desperately needed.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

soy, wheat, and corn farmers use cover crops, and only 25 percent have adopted crop rotation and conservation tillage practices, even though the country is losing more than 10 billion tons of soil each year as well as more than $50 billion in social and environmental benefits.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Ethics Biodiversity Carbon Agriculture 36

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

“No other tree species in our eastern landscape exerts such a widespread and profound influence on the environment and other organisms, including ourselves,” researchers who work in the Harvard Forest, Orwig among them, wrote in a book published in 2014 titled Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge.

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 140

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Get your copy here.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Get your copy here.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book " The Good Ancestor " is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Innovation marches forward.

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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

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Woodberry is a fierce-looking 69-year-old who likes to bring environmentalism to the pulpit, making connections, for example, between the rivers that became blood in the Biblical Book of Revelation and red tides of toxic algae. “If It is extractive, polluting, climate-disruptive, and destructive of biodiversity,” Smith told me.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Deforestation affects rainfall, potentially triggering a vicious circle of dryer conditions, soil erosion and desertification. Biodiversity declines, crops fail. His work is very diverse, and includes editing books, public speaking, magazine articles, and book reviews. Tensions rise.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Ethics 40

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. Loss of biodiversity.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book ” The Good Ancestor ” is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials.

Politics 36

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data?

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

One of its leading proponents is Steven Pinker, whose 2018 book Enlightenment Now was once described by Bill Gates as "my new favourite book or all time". Such projects also support ecosystem services, biodiversity, access to freshwater, climate resilience, improved livelihoods, healthy diets, and food security.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Politics Agriculture 89

Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises. This is easily affordable, and it will create millions of jobs.

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Fossil fuels Biodiversity Government Politics 62

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

That’s just an ecological disaster, definitely from a biodiversity perspective and maybe from a carbon perspective,” said Fangyuan Hua, a conservation ecologist at Peking University in China. When tree planting goes wrong. Tree-planting programs have run into problems from the start. So is it time to stop focusing on ‘planting’ trees?

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Climate change Carbon Africa Fossil fuels 105

Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

She found that current carbon accumulation rates vary by a factor of a hundred, depending on climate, soils, altitude, and terrain. But overall, besides being better for biodiversity, the study showed, natural regeneration can capture more carbon more quickly and more securely than plantations. A trillion is a big number.

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Soil Carbon Climate change Organic 106