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. . Read on to reckon with how a truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. . Alec Appelbaum. Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Michaela Herrmann: One of the core things you talked about in the book is a “climate shock.” Professor Dana R.

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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? How is this different?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Let’s rid our work environments of the toxic smoke of dysfunction. Work with the coach,” she said. Sometimes they were, themselves, pumping that toxic smoke into their work environments. You see the forests, not just the trees, and work to improve the ecosystems so the individuals in them can thrive. Chris Gaither.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

My work buddy Lucy gets on two stops down, always with a pair of scones, wheeling her bike next to mine in the locker downstairs before joining me in the sunny coach section. Twice a week, this; twice a week, we co-work from a cafe in the suburbs. “And one of the central ideas of degrowth is shorter working hours.”

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

But the world’s susceptibility to fungal pathogens is genuine. 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.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The farms we work with are seeing a huge spike in demand [for direct sales]," Dan Miller, CEO and founder of the crowdfunding platform Steward , told me when we spoke by phone in early April. And how do we transform this moment of crisis into a more resilient, sustainable, healthy and just food system? Mon, 11/02/2020 - 01:30.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. Interrupting a speaker, he announced that the world had already entered a new age: the Anthropocene.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These oil sands, sometimes called “tar sands,” which lie in northern Alberta, are one of the largest oil reserves in the world. These oil sands, sometimes called “tar sands,” which lie in northern Alberta, are one of the largest oil reserves in the world. But the oil that comes from them is distinctive in several ways.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

How can we be sure? Climate TRACE (short for Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) intends to use a massive worldwide network of satellite images, land- and sea-based sensors and advanced artificial intelligence to generate what it’s describing as the "most thorough and reliable data on emissions the world has ever seen.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

But what nobody really knows is at the other end of a building known as Le V, on the northeast side of the city, is a portal that leads to a secret pile of fracking waste from the woods of West Virginia. much of it toxic and radioactive. As you will see, this indeed was the case. It almost doesn’t seem real, and you might deny it.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

I suppose it’s possible, but how much were those people going to do anyway? I guess these actions can feed the climate denier propaganda machine, but they have a clear storyline about how climate change is not really that bad, etc., But let’s be brutally honest: that hasn’t worked (or worked fast enough).

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues. Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? And yet, the question “Why should we do this?”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30.

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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. Lets dare to do things differently. The following was originally posted to the Regen/ Notes newsletter. Joanna Watchman.

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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. Lets dare to do things differently. Also, a huge thank you to Josie Warden at the RSA for her inspirational foreword.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action.

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

Faith Kearns thought she knew how to talk about science. In 2008, she was working in a fire center at the University of California, Berkeley, not long after getting her doctorate there. Kearns had already worked in communications for years. That really forced me into a reckoning about what science communication is,” she said.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Fleet leaders that want to buy Class 8 electric trucks (those are the really big ones) commonly face long delivery timelines from automakers. I think it was my first on-site visit since the pandemic shut the world down, and I remained masked with the windows down the entire time. What it's like to ride in an electric big rig.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 19, 2020

’ as ‘how?’ ’ We have electric vehicles, how do we get people to buy them? Our view of the world is highly blinkered by what we know – hence the reason why we get campaigns against windfarms, but there are no campaigns to pull down electricity pylons. Then we can work out how to effect change.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

In his debut book The Energy Switch , leading energy expert Peter Kelly-Detwiler, is exploring the power grid’s transformation in the United States and around the world. Already in the first chapter of his book, Peter Kelly-Detwiler introduces quite a bold statement. LISTEN NOW. Why is that? Climate change anyone?

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I’m also working on my annual year-end wrap up ( last year’s was “How Did Business’s Role in Society Change in 2020”). The world’s largest companies are rapidly raising the bar on their commitments to tackle climate change. Chamber of Commerce tries to kill it. I’m asking for your input also.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Here are a few environmental awareness days coming up in October that you should really put on your calendar. Through their close relationships with nature, Indigenous groups have provided invaluable wisdom and insight on how to live more harmoniously with the planet and each other. Energy Efficiency Day – October 6th.

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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 it’s not ‘progress’ is it?

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Andrew Winston

MAY 26, 2022

(It’s hard to focus on much these days as the world seems in dire shape and the US in particular is unable to tackle any problems – one political party is rapidly moving backwards on women’s rights, guns, climate, inequality, racial equity, voting & democracy, and more. The only solution here is elections.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This is the first in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. I’m going to ask you a some questions that I’m typically asked.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

Some of the first casualties will likely be sensitive, specialty crops, like the tropical berries that make one of the world’s most beloved beverages: coffee. Some of the first casualties will likely be sensitive, specialty crops, like the tropical berries that make one of the world’s most beloved beverages: coffee.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The University of Bristol professor decided to break that unspoken rule in her first book, Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity. “I I really believe in true stories and it being OK to share how you are and what’s been going on for you, in addition to what you discovered,” she said.

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Low Impact

JULY 25, 2021

I then worked as a technician in theatre, and I worked for live bands. I learnt about how to get things found on the internet – product listings, photos etc. Then I spent 10 years working as a chef. How did you learn how to do it? Some of those are really good. I’m Tom Humphries. Good for tea or beer.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

With 215-mile-per-hour winds, faster than a severe tornado, the fictional Luna is the world’s first Category 6 hurricane. In the real world, Category 5 is synonymous with the biggest and baddest storms. According to the study, the world has already seen storms that would qualify as Category 6s. “We But some U.S. But some U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

In this #Solar100 interview, Allehaut discusses M&A in the post-virus environment, “detrimental investor behavior”, and advice for young people who want to work in renewables. You’re the first person I’ve met that started off in an embassy, which is also how I got my start. I chose the administration option.

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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.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

How do you know when something becomes the norm? Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Here we go.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By making the concept of sustainability part of its core values, Salesforce hopes to further operationalise its climate action, both internally and externally. This is the second time Salesforce has made an addition to its core values: It added 'equality' several years ago. As of March 2021, it had paid $16m to square things up.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 19, 2021

Each volume features a member of our Planet community and is a valuable opportunity to get to know the person, the whole person, and understand what belonging really means to them. . Tell us a little about yourself and some of the things you are currently working on at Planet. . I’m really excited about this new role.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is the second in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. First – why are you doing this? Why did you do this instead?

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 15, 2022

As we recruit for Elemental’s Cohort 11, we spoke with each of our Directors of Innovation about what they’re looking to fund this year, what motivates them in their work, and much more. What inspires you in your work fighting climate change? Life is short, and I want to leave a dent.

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