How to build a flood resilient future
GreenBiz
MARCH 14, 2020
A new book shows how we can adapt the built and natural environment to be more flood resilient in the face of climate change.
London borough installs gully sensors to build flood resilience
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 1, 2023
Cabinet Member for Environment and Civic Pride, Cllr Jo Blackman, said: “Redbridge is seeing the effects of climate change with more frequent bouts of flooding from torrential rain.
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Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.
Grist
APRIL 6, 2021
If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story. Of course, the idea that a changing climate can drive collapse isn’t wrong. Even modest changes in the climate have caused problems. It’s just not the whole story.
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How to build a flood resilient future
AGreenLiving
MARCH 14, 2020
A new book shows how we can adapt the built and natural environment to be more flood resilient in the face of climate change. The rest is here: How to build a flood resilient future.
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Work to be done for US utilities to modernise fragile grid – Black & Veatch
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 27, 2022
The majority of utilities in the US are not ready to define or implement grid modernisation and digitalisation programmes that help ensure the resilience and reliability of energy networks, according to a new e-book released by consulting firm Black & Veatch. This is more than double the number experienced in 2017. Have you read?
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A community leader on why aid work is necessary to build climate resilience
Grist
JUNE 28, 2023
But another avenue for personal action can be working for your community — ensuring that your neighbors, especially the most vulnerable, have their basic needs met in the face of threats caused or worsened by climate change. ” Those hit first and worst by climate change are often the poorest and most marginalized.
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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate
GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2020
Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate. Excerpted from " Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change " by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press. He does not view climate change as mild and manageable.
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The road to a sustainable economy
The Environmental Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
As the world struggles to combat climate change, the need for a sustainable economy is more urgent than ever. It’s leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions which are affecting our ecosystems and contributing to climate change. Through reform, we can create a more resilient and environmentally friendly food system.
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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility
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.
Looking back on the future
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. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support. A fair COP?
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How Riverford is balancing, risk, resilience, and regenerative farming in drought-hit Devon
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
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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Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is helping to bring transparency to climate risk throughout capital markets, with the aim of making markets more efficient and economies more stable and resilient. . Risk officer: Assessing exposure to climate-linked credit risk . Risk & Resilience.
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Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity
GreenBiz
JUNE 12, 2020
William Ginn, author of the new book " Valuing Nature ," talks with Associate Editor Deonna Anderson about ways the private sector can address biodiversity. Ideas for building a supply chain resilient to both short-term disruptions such as the pandemic and long-term risks such as climate change. Can't join live?
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Looking back on the future
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. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support. A fair COP?
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Immersive, dystopian exhibit shows what life could be like post-climate change
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 16, 2020
Set in the first half of the 23rd century, 100 years from now, Mitigation of Shock, Singapore explores the narrative of a family fighting to survive in a post- climate change future. Aluminum covers the windows to keep the structure resilient against extreme weather. It marks one of Superflux’s most ambitious projects to date.
Planet Appoints Andrew Zolli As Chief Impact Officer As It Accelerates Investment In Sustainability
Planet Pulse
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Our data, platforms, and services are powerful tools for addressing critical planetary challenges including climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian emergencies. I’m proud to announce that Planet has appointed Andrew Zolli as Planet’s new Chief Impact Officer. .
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What can we expect from the government's plans for climate change, a green recovery and COP26?
Business Green
MAY 26, 2020
In his speech, Sharma said UK and Italy would be working around the clock to raise the ambition on climate change. In his own words, this means "more ambition to reduce emissions, more ambition to build resilience, and more ambition to cooperate with each other". This is good news for two reasons.
Category 6-level hurricanes are already here, a new study says
Grist
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
We expected that climate change was going to make the winds of the most intense storms stronger,” said Michael Wehner, a coauthor of the paper and an extreme weather researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The concept could help the public grapple with the dangers that climate change is bringing, like more intense storms.
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Learn how to turn your lawn into a meadow
Greenability Magazine
JULY 28, 2020
Learn how to create a regenerative, natural ecosystem at this free Green America webinar with Owen Wormser, author of a new book, Lawns into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape. Or just trying to avoid fossil fuel intensive mowing? With all of their chemical inputs, lawns can wreak havoc on natural ecosystems.
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Andrew Winston
APRIL 30, 2020
Since then, I haven’t written any articles (I’m now focusing on a new book, but that’s another story), but MIT Sloan Management Review asked me to give a talk/webinar as well. We titled it “ Covid, Climate, and the Clean Economy ,” I offer some thoughts about what business (and all of us) might think about in this moment.
Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 14, 2021
A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.
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Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 14, 2021
A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.
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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours
DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2022
Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.
Navigating Intersectional Eco-Anxiety
Defend Our Future
JUNE 22, 2023
Climate change, deforestation, droughts, saltwater contamination , water scarcity, increases the burden on these women. People with visual, hearing, or cognitive disabilities encounter barriers to accessing relevant information regarding climate change and environmental issues.
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As climate warms, a rearrangement of world’s plant life looms
Grist
JULY 6, 2021
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. Darwin famously compared the fossil record to a tattered book missing most of its pages and with all but a few lines obscured.
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Sustainability Marketing: How To Reach Three Kinds of Customers Of Green Products and Services
Green Business Bureau
APRIL 6, 2022
A Yale study found nearly 2/3 of the American public recognizes climate change is real. They either don’t care or believe climate change is a scam to steal their freedom or job. . Whatever you believe about climate change, you can profit as Clorox, Ford, Walmart, and General Electric do. But don’t give up!
Webinar: An Adaptation Blueprint for Communities
Green Market Oracle
AUGUST 3, 2019
Climate Action Planning Creating Low Carbon Resilient Communities, an adaptation blueprint for communities, will take place on August 7, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT. The panelists are the authors of Climate Action Planning (published by Island Press). This is an Island Press Webinar Series. Meet the Panelists Tammy L.
Trends in Food, Agriculture, and Nature-Based Solutions with Mitch Rubin
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 10, 2022
What inspired you to work fighting climate change? If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. What’s one thing about climate innovation that you wish more people knew? That there’s hope!
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Review of ‘A Small Farm Future’ by Chris Smaje
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?
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Black. Lives. Matter.
E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
JUNE 8, 2020
A passage in his 2012 book Across That Bridge sticks with me: “I have seen this restlessness among people before. on racism, on police brutality, on climate change, on building a better, more resilient and more inclusive economy. We sense that power.
A wave of climate-conscious startups are brewing ‘beanless coffee’
Grist
APRIL 17, 2024
The spotlight It’s no secret that climate change poses a threat to our agricultural systems. And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply. If arabica is Goldilocks, climate change is an angry bear.
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5 Big Findings from the IPCC’s 2021 Climate Report
The City Fix
AUGUST 24, 2021
Headlines related to recent extreme weather appear to come out of a science fiction book: Even the richest countries in the world can’t control widespread fires — they’re even burning in the Arctic. Deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July 2021 completely washed away buildings. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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Virtual International Clayfest 2020 – ‘building’ skills and building ‘skills’
Low Impact
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Flood-resilient earthen construction technology and the Case-Study of Pakistan – with Scarlett Lee. How the roles of young women, dedicated training and climate-change adaptation support the earth building revival Nicaragua – with Helen Shears. Building trust, cooperation and change through JUMP!
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'Fossil fuel free flying': RAF completes first flight with synthetic fuel
Business Green
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Climate change is a transnational challenge which threatens global resilience and our shared security and prosperity," said Sir Mike Wigston KCB CBE ADC, air chief marshal and chief of air staff. "I The flight was made the Ikarus C42 the "first aircraft powered by synthetic fuel", according to the Guinness World Records.
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COP26 President Alok Sharma: 'Our choices will make or break the zero-carbon economy'
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
First, adaptation and resilience, helping people, economies and the environment adapt and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Helping developing countries leapfrog the polluting options of the past, to the clean, green, resilient technologies of the future. ??Last We are firmly committed to this goal.??
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Looking for places to donate reusable items?
Greenability Magazine
MARCH 6, 2021
Meanwhile, the evidence of climate change is mounting, and the alarm bells are going off,” Scott said. “We For instance, it can take up to 700 gallons of water to make one new cotton t-shirt—more water than the average person drinks in five years—and more than 1,800 gallons of water to make one new pair of jeans.
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Baby Steps to Digital Water
Varuna
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The water utility industry has an opportunity to improve its infrastructure to meet the demands of climate change and customer needs. On the other hand, changing customer needs in the water supply sector is transforming the face of service delivery in the sector.
How Tory Leadership Hopefuls Stack Up on Climate
DeSmogBlog
JULY 13, 2022
All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama.
'There is no other option': Five key takeaways from the CCC's green recovery advice
Business Green
JUNE 25, 2020
The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. The big question now is whether the government will accept the need to act.
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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate
AGreenLiving
MAY 16, 2020
Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate Barbara Freese Sat, 05/16/2020 – 14:20 Excerpted from ” Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change ” by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press.
Clean Energy Group announces retirement of Lewis Milford as President; Seth Mullendore named successor
Renewable Energy World
JULY 15, 2021
CEG also worked with federal agencies and international agencies to find policy solutions to combat climate change. To call Lew Milford a ‘visionary’ doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the work Lew has undertaken for CEG, for the environment, and the future of resiliency,” said CEG Board Chair Brian F.
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Regenerative Design
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Buildings today must be developed to reverse the effects of climate change, enhance natural systems, the built environment and habitants health. This book offers those involved within the built environment a wide range of insights into regenerative design from international design practitioners and researchers in the field.
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6 Types of Resilience Companies Need Today
Andrew Winston
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
When severe storms hit in tropical climates, buildings may fall, but most palm trees survive. They have resilience. They saw how our two big existential challenges, climate change and inequality, along with multipliers like rising transparency and pressure from stakeholders, create emergencies. What uncertainty?].
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Trends in mobility and energy innovation with Gabriel Scheer
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 15, 2022
What inspires you in your work fighting climate change? That’s why empowering diverse founders and working directly with frontline communities are such critical pieces of Elemental’s mission fighting climate change. Life is short, and I want to leave a dent. Only if everyone is served will any of us be served.
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