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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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Particular initiatives would still face normal business scrutiny, but we could stop making the overall business case every time. And companies would be freed from the idea that making sustainability a core strategy will absolutely make or break the business. This appeared last month in MIT SMR.] Now He’s Speaking Out.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

With 2020 in the history books and hopes for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic rising, these companies seek to build on their newfound momentum in 2021. With 2020 in the history books and hopes for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic rising, these companies seek to build on their newfound momentum in 2021. percent from 2021 to 2027.

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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. Adaptation was once viewed as an unhelpful distraction from the main focus of securing emissions reductions.

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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. Adaptation was once viewed as an unhelpful distraction from the main focus of securing emissions reductions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

And, eventually, it all became this book, Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It — available here on Amazon , here on Bookshop , or it can be ordered at any local bookstore. much of it toxic and radioactive. As you will see, this indeed was the case. And no one ever has — until now.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

London’s smoke was a stronger pull for the visual and literary imaginations of the 19th century than for the priorities of public health, and the worlds of Dickens and Conan Doyle are unrecognisable without it. The London smog of 1952 was certainly tragic in its effect, claiming over 12,000 lives.

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Low Impact

JULY 14, 2021

The project that I am referring to started in 1983 and was centred around sustainable and affordable living, away from the busy ‘non-sensica’ of what was then (and is now) modern life. This now seems from another world – and no surprise, as it was a different century.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

On the occasion of his 70th birthday this month, I caught up with McDonough to discuss his journey and some seminal moments in his life and career, and how they influenced his work. And to take a peek into where he may be headed next. The conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length. So, it just feels like a great moment to reflect.

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 17, 2020

Over the last few weeks and months governments around the world have placed an unprecedented demand on humanity. The throes of modernity and the structures of our urban and agricultural industries have dominated human life for over 10,000 years. Could this routine-shattering response to COVID-19 help us to rediscover ourselves?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The coal-dust tests are just one of many strange episodes illuminated in Alice Bell’s new book, Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis. It may seem ludicrous now, but there was a time when scientists wanted to melt the glaciers. trillion tons of ice every year. Bell, a science writer and the co-director of the U.K.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Nonetheless, wind power has not yet received mass adoption throughout the world as it requires much effort in the very beginning in terms of wind farm area selection and preparation, and required investment. In the modern market, grid operators have become a reliable provider of electricity generated with wind energy.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

In his 2017 book on EROI, subtitled "A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics and Sustainability," Hall details how advanced societies require a surplus of energy to sustain the multitude of non-energy-producing activities that take place in modern life. joules back from every joule invested to make it worthwhile.

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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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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

WHAT’S THE BEST BOOK YOU’VE READ OR THE BEST PODCAST YOU’VE LISTENED TO THIS YEAR? The podcast has greatly shaped my understanding of bitcoin and more specifically how the crypto world interfaces with modern geopolitics, monetary policy, global philanthropy, ESG risks and energy usage. Several qualities make a successful leader.

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Grist

MAY 12, 2020

Right now, we’re starting to experience shocks that we have never experienced before in our lifetimes that are shaking us out of complacency,” said Ziya Tong, a science journalist and the former vice-chair of Canada’s World Wide Fund for Nature. Coronavirus is a make-or-break moment for climate change, economists say.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The flight was made the Ikarus C42 the "first aircraft powered by synthetic fuel", according to the Guinness World Records. The way we power our aircraft will be a big part of achieving that goal, and this exciting project to make aviation fuel from air and water shows how it might be done.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This 100-metre illuminated globe would have towered over nearby buildings like a baleful, modern-day Eye of Sauron, with 190,000 square feet of LED surface continually beaming corporate marketing messages across the city. First, news broke that London Mayor Sadiq Khan had refused planning consent for the MSG Sphere in Stratford.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 30, 2021

The e-bike industry is exploding around the world as people adopt the idea of an environmentally-friendly alternative for the daily commute and a way to enjoy the outdoors. and the desire to honour and continue this iconic design through a modern interpretation.” The outer layers include birch wood as well.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The business world is becoming more environmentally and socially responsible. Plus, 77% of consumers are more likely to use brands committed to making the world a better place. Corporate Sustainability versus CSR. Customers demand it. Employees demand it. Partners and vendors demand it. Sustainability and CSR Trends.

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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. In 1512, under the rule of Henry VIII, an Act was passed that became known as the Herbalists’ Charter.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

These ideas have been promoted for decades by a very well-funded and wildly successful effort — with the Koch brothers at the core — to make the free-market, shareholder-primacy, neoliberal philosophy the dominant global economic model. Multiple think tanks funded by the Kochs and others make this case daily. Let me explain.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

These ideas have been promoted for decades by a very well-funded and wildly successful effort — with the Koch brothers at the core — to make the free-market, shareholder-primacy, neoliberal philosophy the dominant global economic model. Multiple think tanks funded by the Kochs and others make this case daily. Let me explain.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Energy is at the center of almost every major challenge and opportunity the world is facing to increase income equality, create more jobs, and take actions towards climate change. In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. What is SDG 7? SDG 7 Targets.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

However, over the longer term a president’s policies can make a big impact. I recently reviewed presidential policies and how they have impacted the world’s energy markets, and I was struck by the ultimate significance of the policies of President George W. Modernize U.S. I often remind people that a U.S. Prioritizing Energy.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Energy is at the center of almost every major challenge and opportunity the world is facing to increase income equality, create more jobs, and take actions towards climate change. In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. What is SDG 7? SDG 7 Targets.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Civil servants then dutifully run off to try and find anything on the statute book that is genuinely outdated or counter productive, only to return several months later having found next to nothing that can be cut without serious economic, environmental, and/or legal consequences, as well as likely political uproar.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2021

Some 56 million years ago, just after the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene, the world suddenly warmed. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), as this event is known, is “the best geologic analog” for modern anthropogenic climate change, said University of Wyoming paleobotanist Ellen Currano.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

As part of my new column in MIT Sloan Management Review, I've been diving into the world of new technologies and how they enhance or interact with the sustainability agenda. AI could make business radically more efficient and answer questions we didn’t even know we had. I'll try to catch up in the next couple of weeks.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. Already today, at 1°C of warming, we are starting to see the effects of climate chaos in the UK and throughout the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

By necessity, modern farming has become a global, well-oiled machine. But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 17, 2020

And yet, in one of the modern world’s greatest failures, not everyone has access to it. In some parts of the world, on week-day mornings, parents wake their youngest children and take them to daycare. In other parts of the world, however, there is no daycare. Indeed, education is vital. The places left behind.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Setting: A remote homestead in the Sierra Nevada foothills, in the somewhat but not exceedingly distant future. A column of dust rises in the distance, and soon the sun flashes off the stainless steel exterior of a trapezoidal personnel carrier winding up the unpaved switchbacks. Mother: Hello Mister, and welcome to Grid’s Edge.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Xiye Bastida is a 20-year-old climate activist from the Otomí-Toltec community in central Mexico, a leading organizer with the Fridays for Future movement in New York City, a co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative , and a champion of Indigenous and immigrant engagement in climate activism. Laura Calderón de la Barca. Xiye Bastida.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

State-owned enterprise Coal India is the largest coal mining company in the world. As the third-largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions in the world today with an economy that's poised to see massive growth in the future, what happens to India’s energy mix will have a significant impact on the planet and its inhabitants.

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