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Around the world in 100 Little Free Libraries

GatesNotes

As part of the release of my new holiday books reading list, I placed copies in more than 100 Little Free Libraries.

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Can employees lead the charge on climate action?

Business Green

If we're to solve the climate crisis, we'll need to deploy every trick in the book. Project Drawdown, you may recall, was formed out of the 2017 book Drawdown which laid out and assessed the most impactful solutions to slow climate change and, eventually, reduce the concentration of climate-warming gases in the atmosphere.

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1963 Conference Put Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change in the Spotlight

DeSmogBlog

Almost a half century before Al Gore’s seminal film and book, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the conference organizers produced what appears to be the first publication devoted entirely to the subject of CO2 and climate change. National Archives; and the LBJ Presidential Library. Government. Ordway, Jr.,

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Keeping your tech ticking: how to extend the lifetime of your laptop

Low Impact

Even better, it’s free to download, free to install and doesn’t harvest your data in the same way that proprietary software – Windows very much included – does. Hopefully you’re now feeling a little more optimistic about the prospects for your much-loved laptop. What’s not to love?

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John Thackara: ‘Strange’ ideas don’t sound so strange in strange times

Low Impact

I’d be surprised when your book comes out, if it doesn’t have a big readership, because people will think that now is the time that we have to learn about this stuff. I mentioned in my book that here in France there’s a large North African community. There’s a free hour, then thousands of courses. I think it’s human nature.

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With Billions in Fines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ranks Are ‘Packed With Rogues’

DeSmogBlog

The findings are “jaw-dropping even for people like me who study, teach, and write about corporate criminal misconduct for a living,” Jennifer Taub, a professor at Western New England University School of Law and author of Big Dirty Money , a book on corporate profiteering and white-collar crime, wrote to DeSmog in an email. Powell, Jr.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

America’s Gas Export Boom In order for an LNG project to constructed, it needs to obtain authorisation from the Department of Energy to export to countries that don’t have a free-trade agreement with the U.S. exporting gas to countries that do have a free-trade agreement with the U.S. Rather than repaired, they remain shuttered.