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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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

As we come together to rebuild our economies from the ashes of COVID-19, we have a unique opportunity to create a more resilient, sustainable and fair world. Business accountability for human rights, including environmental and social justice beyond what is legally required, is the next chapter in the responsible leadership book.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As Oxford professor Dieter Helm points out in his latest book – Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – we need to mend our ways in order to meet the needs of future generations. Many businesses and governments put profits and short-term gains over the long-term health of our planet.

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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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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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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Thank you so much to National Geographic for sending me the book called: Oceans. oceans #protectouroceans This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans—coming this April from Disney & National Geographic—explores the health of our. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done to turn the Tide. The post Oceans.

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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. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support. A fair COP?

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2020

We’re working from home, we’re schooling our children, business travel has stopped, health and safety is a top concern, and we’re facing the most severe recession in 100 years. We doubled the amount of new business booked in the quarter compared to the same period a year ago.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, the green economy has demonstrated both its huge resilience and its critical role at the heart of the transition to a net zero emission economy which is set to dominate the next three decades. Interested parties now have until 5pm on Friday 11th June to submit their entries.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 30, 2020

Not surprisingly then, we are seeing many events, workshops, exhibitions, film festivals, from book clubs to concerts to design shows, move into the online space. LFE (Living Future Europe) has started a weekly Resilience Lounge hosted by Carlo Battisti. We will undoubtedly see a rise in mental health, anxiety and domestic violence.

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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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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

This makes them more vulnerable to health, safety, and displacement impacts, leading to higher anxiety and stress levels. Imagine living in a place where water infrastructure is insufficient, where women and girls are responsible for fetching water. During environmental disasters, evacuation and aid may become challenging.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 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.

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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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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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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Virality is no longer just the gold standard of online journalism, but a thing with deleterious health consequences. Should the health of one attendee fail, the brittle system would crumble. We must build resilience through smaller, decentralized dining, whilst growing our own food and harvesting energy from the sun wherever possible.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Milford created CEG’s Resilient Power Project in 2013 after Superstorm Sandy, to ensure that frontline communities and climate-vulnerable populations had access to new technologies like solar and battery storage, which can provide power during blackouts. Keane, President of SmartPower.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

In 2020, the US health/sustainability market was $355 billion and growing 10% per year. Encourage community resilience and disaster preparedness. Book your no-cost initial consultation at [link] (either call or use the scheduling link). Download excerpts from the book or order your very own copy (autographs available) at [link].

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They have resilience. The Building Blocks of Resilience. A company can’t thrive amid uncertainty without financial, portfolio, and organizational resilience. A company can’t thrive amid uncertainty without financial, portfolio, and organizational resilience. The business had very little financial resilience.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The evidence that ambitious climate policies can boost the damaged economy while laying the foundations for long term competitiveness and climate resilience is becoming more compelling by the year. The big question is whether our recovery from Covid can help reshape the path of future emissions and make us more climate resilient," said Stark.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

These ingredients have historically been more accessible than coffee, and sometimes confer purported health benefits. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire. An illustrated advertisement from 1902 for Postum by the Postum Cereal Company of Battle Creek, Michigan. 100 words on the dot.

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2023

Rather than checking out books, I was there to check out a room — a nondescript space with a few tables and chairs, a hand-washing station, and two quiet but impressive MERV 13 air filters. The room is part of a new pilot program in California to establish cleaner-air centers as a response to wildfire smoke. .”

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Companies need to take a broader view of their interests and shift from constantly chasing individual issues to focusing on the health of the larger systems on which business and humanity depend. Join the Net Positive movement (and find links for where to buy the book all over the world). ABOUT THE AUTHORS. Follow Andrew on Twitter.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Having left her UNFCCC role in 2016, Figueres has remained steadfastly committed to the climate cause, co-founding the Global Optimism Group, co-writing a book, and co-hosting a hugely popular podcast, Outrage and Optimism, in addition to sitting on the boards of various businesses and organisations. So at this point: net positive.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Scottish Business Resilience Centre noted a ‘secondary and deliberate attempt to compromise SEPA systems as the team endeavoured to recover and restore back-ups’. Police Scotland found that SEPA has a strong culture of resilience, governance, incident, and emergency management. Learnings for Scotland’s public sector.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They also looked more agile and resilient. Would the food consumption trends driven by the pandemic wind up as a paragraph in the history books — like the ” victory gardens ” of World War II — or could it lead to lasting change? Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Truss is one of the authors of an influential 2012 book by members of the Conservative Free Enterprise Group, Britannia Unchained , which argued for a low-tax, deregulated economy and took a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology”. Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, former Health Secretary.

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AGreenLiving

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. Many stakeholders are involved in the initiative, across corporations and financial institutions.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 8, 2020

Workplaces and well-being (31:15) Last week, three respected real estate companies — Cushman & Wakefield, Hines and Delos — announced an initiative intended to help companies begin the process of reconfiguring their offices to protect employees’ health as they return to work. ” Register for the live event at 1 p.m. EDT May 14.

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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. For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life. Bill Gates excellently addresses this topic in his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. His biggest takeaway is he wants you to know two numbers : 51 billion and zero.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Eminent development economist Partha Dasgupta has slammed the government's decision to slash its overseas family planning aid budget just months after his landmark review into the economics of biodiversity warned investment in family planning and reproductive health programmes could help reduce humanity's toll on nature.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

There is an additional focus on providing access to clean and safe cooking fuels to improve emissions, health, and quality of life. Bill Gates excellently addresses this topic in his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. His biggest takeaway is he wants you to know two numbers : 51 billion and zero.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Peter Fiske: Market Intelligence Coach Peter leads a research program as the Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, addressing critical gaps to improve water-energy systems. He also mentors early-stage entrepreneurs in the Department of Energy’s I-Corps Program.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

The Government Economic Service should deliver more environmental and climate training for officials and the Green Book should be updated to ensure structural changes are consistent, he adds.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Fossil fuel companies have recognized the threat of climate change and extreme weather enough to raise their platforms because of sea level rise, build seawalls and floating gates, and publish climate resiliency reports — but not enough to stop fossil fuel expansion and start decarbonization. Deny, Distract, Doubt.

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