Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. Company executives laid the blame on falling gas prices, but many of their joint venture partners — fossil fuel goliaths like Chevron and Shell — had already pulled out. They’d expected it to be empty.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. More on J&J in a second.).

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. More on J&J in a second.).

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S. And because close to 10 percent of the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. Usually, they're more excited about this because we replace the limestone they're using to de-acidify their soil and restore nutrients with something that can do a better job.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., The prime examples of the latter are “ regenerative agriculture ” and “ holistic grazing ” which use farming and cattle to improve soil quality and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., The prime examples of the latter are “ regenerative agriculture ” and “ holistic grazing ” which use farming and cattle to improve soil quality and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). The other big shift this year was a clear sprint for the exits from fossil fuel investment.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the news this week, $7T for fossil fuel subsidies, the summer brings more tropical storms, and Equinor opens the world’s largest floating wind farm… to power oil drilling. You double-book and spend just as much time picking what to prioritize as you do once you’re actually there.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book " The Good Ancestor " is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Innovation marches forward.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. The crime in question is the fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change. Instead of launching a transition to renewable energy, the consumption of fossil fuel increased. By Mark Hertsgaard.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. If we’re stewards of the Earth,” he once told a reporter , referring to the Book of Genesis, “we’re supposed to be doing something about this.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In between all that, and various other advisory roles besides, the 68-year-old also managed to write five books on climate and energy. The new regime will shift towards an economic rewards system that actually encourages carbon sequestration in woodlands and soils, as well as biodiversity uplift."

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. And because close to 10 per cent of the US energy economy is actually finding, mining, refining and transporting our fuels to support our fossil fuel economy, there's a huge savings there as well," he said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E; San Francisco.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. the world, there are many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? Initiative: Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? “[Open-book management] simply work. You can also check the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Roman Krznaric’s book ” The Good Ancestor ” is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

The findings are presented in a new book titled Earth for All: A survival guide for humanity , which marks the culmination of a two-year research project that highlights the intrinsic links between social and geopolitical trends and climate and environmental threats. This is easily affordable, and it will create millions of jobs.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

One of its leading proponents is Steven Pinker, whose 2018 book Enlightenment Now was once described by Bill Gates as "my new favourite book or all time". Similarly, forest protection can deliver significant flood resilience, soil quality, and water security benefits, above and beyond the obvious carbon savings.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

Others pointed out that calling forestation the “most effective climate change solution to date” overlooked a more obvious, trusty solution: reducing fossil fuel emissions. Whereas cutting fossil fuels has proven politically difficult, trees are a rare climate fix that’s popular — and some scientists may hesitate to pour water on it.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A new report from the Sierra Club has found that more than 40,000 unplugged oil and gas wells are sitting idle across California — potentially leaking planet-warming gas and unsafe chemicals, but no longer actively extracting fossil fuels. In theory, it shouldn’t be possible to leave so many wells in that neglected state.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She says if world leaders are serious about combating the climate crisis they can "help us stop the fossil fuel industry and protect indigenous people in the Amazon, because those are the people who have been protecting the world’s rainforest for a very long time now." Howey Ou is from Guilin, China. "I So here I am."

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Other metals supplies need to rise, too, in order to get companies and countries to their carbon neutrality goals — phasing out fossil fuels. . Editor's note: You can read an excerpt of Kostigen's book "Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future" here. Yet global metal production is in decline.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Other metals supplies need to rise, too, in order to get companies and countries to their carbon neutrality goals — phasing out fossil fuels. Editor’s note: You can read an excerpt of Kostigen’s book “Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future” here.

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