Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. Even if teachers today are unlikely to fall for Heartland’s claims, the organization’s messaging could still help the fossil fuel industry in a roundabout way.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. government.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In February this year, UNIMIB and Eni signed a five-year “Joint Research Agreement,” (JRA) in which the university and the fossil fuel company pledged to collaborate on “research projects of common interest” related to the energy transition, according to an Eni press release. org, an international movement working to end fossil fuels.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Or just trying to avoid fossil fuel intensive mowing? 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. Are you looking for an alternative to your water-thirsty, chemical-dependent lawn?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

At 9:30 am on March 12, 1963, in Room 1-B of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Institute , six experts gathered to discuss the implications of a newly identified atmospheric phenomenon: the rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Ordway, Jr., in the foreword to the group’s 1962 Annual Report.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2019, the company was caught spying on reporters and helping orchestrate an operation to denigrate Carey Gillam , a book author and contributing writer for The Guardian. . FTI Consulting has a history of targeting reporters. Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2023

A Kenyan human rights campaigner has voiced her anger at being removed from the list of delegates to an African oil and gas conference in London on the grounds that the event was “sold out” – even as organizers continued to advertise tickets. At the U.N.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Business travel is of economic importance but as we launch into the last 10 years of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we find that reducing our fossil fuel dependency must also be an urgent priority. Organize a company carpool program. Implement more eco-friendly ways of flying by booking direct flights.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

My journey into this topic started when an Ohio community organizer told me someone made a liquid deicer out of radioactive oilfield waste for home driveways and patios, which was supposedly “Safe for Pets” and had been selling at Lowe’s. It is out of this unknowing, and deception, that this book can exist.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

She also founded End Climate Silence , an organization focused on strengthening climate change reporting and ending fossil fuel advertising in the media. How did all of this lead to the organization you started — End Climate Silence? There’s a lot of fossil fuel advertising on television.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

There is little evidence to suggest that fossil fuel companies can be trusted to change their ways, says the new peer-reviewed paper published on April 15 in Energy Research and Social Science. Pivoting to align a fossil fuel company with what the science says is required to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” It’s a big problem.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

There is little evidence to suggest that fossil fuel companies can be trusted to change their ways, says the new peer-reviewed paper published on April 15 in Energy Research and Social Science. Pivoting to align a fossil fuel company with what the science says is required to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C

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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 does it have to be that way?

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And banks, long the laggards on climate action, are funneling trillions of dollars toward clean technologies while moving their investment portfolios away from fossil fuels. We outline many of these steps in our new book, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take.) Follow Andrew on Twitter.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

I’m the author of The Petroleum Papers , which was named a top 10 book of 2022 by the Washington Post. While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The task of formalizing the geological era fell to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the scientific organization which establishes global standards for such things. George Perkins Marsh , an early American conservationist, declared that humans were reshaping Earth — for the worse — in his influential 1864 book Man and Nature.

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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. Climate action 4.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One document reviewed by DeSmog referenced a course about “population growth, innovation and human flourishing,” to be taught by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley, co-authors of a book called Superabundance. based libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch that has long disputed the facts of climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that has bugged some academics for decades: As we move to less energy-dense fuels, could we end up without enough surplus for society? A key concept for the survival of society?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

The search warrant, shared with DeSmog by one of the activists, alleges that the activists spray painted and vandalized the side of a building, headquarters of the companies Centrex and Weedoo, both of which are involved in the “sale and supply of gas and energy on behalf of Gazprom” a Russian state-owned fossil fuel company, the warrant says.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

International organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), have attempted to address the complex issue of climate change. Extensive research by the UN as well as hundreds of other organizations has indicated that humans are responsible for generating excessive levels of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the Fraser Institute’s senior fellows recently authored an op-ed in the Calgary Sun arguing that net-zero is “the pathway to Canadian decline” and that alternatives to fossil fuels are “unstable and unreliable.” It’s total greenwashing,” he said of Shell Canada’s current promises to cut emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Examples include deforestation and burning fossil fuels. This is not sustainable. The benefits of CSR.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What lies underneath the perennial deadlocks at climate conferences, or the enduring grip of the fossil fuel lobby on the way we order our lives? Others liken the way people who suffered early adversity often resort to self-medicating their pain to society’s pursuit of endless, fossil fuel-powered economic growth.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. Eventually the protest caught the attention of some larger organizations: the Australian Green Party, the Tasmania-based nonprofit Wilderness Society, and the Sea Shepherd, a marine conservation group.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

And what’s worse, perverse government subsidies and regulations make it cheaper to do the less sustainable thing — burn more fossil fuels or degrade soil to maximize yields today at the expense of tomorrow. Investors may say to themselves, “I know how to make money on investing in fossil fuels, so I’ll keep doing that.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. Two days before RISE St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Environmental books for kids Kids of all ages learn best when material is presented in an engaging way. Many books offer colorful and informative lessons on ways to protect our environment, conserve resources and make sustainable purchasing decisions. Green Sprouts Chime organic baby rattle Rattles engage and entertain babies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

That was my first question in early March, when a new book about geoengineering, Hacking Planet Earth , authored by journalist Thomas Kostigen , landed on my desk. Another pretty radical solar geoengineering idea, explored in the book, involves spraying the stratosphere with the same mission in mind: deflecting the sun. Intriguing?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford. For those who spend their lives in the countryside, city visits can feel chaotic, confusing, and loud in comparison.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 26, 2022

As Paul Polman, my coauthor on the book Net Positive , likes to say, “So if I killed 10 people before but only five now, am I a better murderer?”. Just as fossil fuel companies should not lead the planning of our energy future, it seems unwise to let finance lead the journey to a humane, more just, less greed-filled form of capitalism.

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Grist

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Most of the air we breathe comes from algae and other aquatic organisms that have been photosynthesizing sunlight into oxygen for a billion years. These poisonous organisms have been cropping up a lot lately. Atmospheric pollution from fossil fuel plants and cars can seed algal blooms, too.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

You can now book your ticket at the awards from today, and join us in celebrating the best of the green economy and the continued advance of the net zero transition. Riverford Organic Farmers - Box Zero and Packaging Pledge. CottonConnect - Organic Farmer Input Centres. PensionBee - Fossil Fuel Free Plan Campaign.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of information collected on every person, product, and organization will grow exponentially, and the pressure to share that information — with customers and consumers in particular — will expand. By 2030, effectively no new additions of generating capacity will come from fossil-fuel-based technologies.

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