Terra Infirma

MARCH 28, 2023

So I decided to make a day and night of it, booking into the hotel for the night and planning a cycle on Thursday afternoon around the old railway trails of Co Durham before the dinner (I’m self-employed, I can do this kind of thing). And, of course, it started raining. And then talk sense to sensible human beings.

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

Kearns’ new book, Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement , out this month, argues that there’s no one “right” approach to talking about the climate crisis and other contentious scientific issues. Kearns had already worked in communications for years. And I’m still reckoning with it.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Boris Johnson has met with the head of an Indian multinational conglomerate building Australia’s largest coal mine, despite having called on the world to phase out the fuel as part of the UK’s COP26 presidency. Delighted to support climate & sustainability agenda with focus on renewables, green H2 & new energy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

At this point they are asked what regulations they actually want to cut and are so flummoxed by this predictable question they end up babbling some nonsense about newts or water voles stymying development. Hold on, haven't we seen this one before? This process always goes the same way.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Environmental racism is widespread, deadly and entirely avoidable, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world through the development of destructive projects concentrated around already-marginalised communities. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I’m also working on my annual year-end wrap up ( last year’s was “How Did Business’s Role in Society Change in 2020”). The world’s largest companies are rapidly raising the bar on their commitments to tackle climate change. Chamber of Commerce tries to kill it. I’m asking for your input also.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Environmental racism is widespread, deadly and entirely avoidable, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world through the development of destructive projects concentrated around already-marginalised communities. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although Grasso has resigned as director of the Anthropocene research unit at CISEPS, he will be retaining his role as a professor of political geography in the department of sociology and social research at UNIMIB. On the same day, Eni also tweeted about the news, mentioning technology as “key” to “achieving complete decarbonization.”. “I

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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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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Businesses and investors have followed suit, with over 2,100 of the world's largest corporates having set net zero goals under the UN-backed Race to Zero campaign while asset managers and owners worth trillions of dollars have pledged to deliver net zero emission portfolios by mid-century at the latest. Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831.

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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

There’s a World Economic Forum risk report from 2016. I’d be surprised when your book comes out, if it doesn’t have a big readership, because people will think that now is the time that we have to learn about this stuff. Is there a party political solution? This is part 2 of a conversation with John Thackara. It concentrates.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is the second in a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. First – why are you doing this? Why did you do this instead?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Last March, the Indian government implemented one of the most stringent coronavirus lockdowns in the world. A burning question for India — and the world — is how fast can the use of renewables and related clean energy technologies scale? This is the first article in a series. With a few hours’ notice, all 1.3

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Prime Minister sets out vision for growing the economy by cutting taxes in first address to Conservative Party Conference. Whenever there is change, there is disruption," Truss told the audience of Tory party members in Birmingham. Not everyone will be in favour. But everyone will benefit from the result - a growing economy and a better future.".

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In the last couple of months the scientific and policy worlds have issued some dire reports. The IPCC released its assessment on whether, and how, the world could hold warming to 1.5 The scientists put out a helpful document with FAQs , but in short, the primary takeaways are these: While the world has already warmed 1.0°C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Nicola Sturgeon has called for an end to any "squabbles" between her government and Westminster over the plans for the COP26 Summit, as she urged all parties to work closely together on ensuring the UN conference provides a launchpad for more ambitious global climate action. It's vital that COP is a success. It's a massive opportunity.

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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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Low Impact

JULY 4, 2021

You ran courses on how to make biodiesel for Lowimpact, back in the early noughties, and you authored a book for us about making biodiesel, that sold about 15k copies in the first year. Some of this is solar panels on roofs , some is empowerment of people – their ability to change the world, and their understanding of renewables.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

Within months, Thunberg urged immediate action from business leaders at the World Economic Forum and the told the UN’s Secretary General and others at the global climate summit in Poland that they are “stealing [childrens’] future in front of their very eyes.” [I've been watching, with some joy, the rise of the youth climate movement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The government could yet relocate the COP26 Climate Summit to London, according to reports this morning, amid claims of spiralling costs and political rows over the current Glasgow venue. The Financial Times reports the government is in talks with ExCel London about potentially moving the COP26 Summit to the capital.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

There is nine months to go until around 30,000 officials and over 100 world leaders gather in Glasgow for a meeting that is meant to demonstrably move the global economy towards tackling the worsening climate crisis. What is going on? This week should provide some much needed clarity.

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Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

This is part 2 of an interview with Paul Jennings, who has built his own straw-bale house and lives with his family on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire in Wales. They were able to build their house via the One Planet Development (OPD) policy in Wales. Here’s part 1 of the interview. How difficult is it to make a living?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today, the only UK coal plants remaining are at West Burton and Ratcliffe, both in Nottinghamshire, and two of the six power generation units at Drax, while Fiddlers Ferry in Cheshire and Aberthaw in Wales are both due to close at the end of March. And we are able to do that because this country is driving a revolution in renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Each storm season brings increased stress and fear for the people of Kivalina, a tiny Native village of some 400 Inupiaq people that sits on a small barrier island on the shore of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A bridg e to the mainland was only recently completed. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

But that said, there was a shift this year in how seriously the world took the issue, which does merit highlighting. At the end of the year, Time Magazine named 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as their youngest “Person of the Year” ever. On March 15, millions marched all over the world.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it,” the Soviet cosmonaut said upon his return. “People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it,” the Soviet cosmonaut said upon his return. Was that death? Is that the way death is? Whoop and it’s gone.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes,” said ExxonMobil lobbyist Keith McCoy. Did we join some of these ‘shadow groups’ to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that’s true. But there’s nothing illegal about that.”.

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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

APRIL 26, 2024

The result is “ The Sky Was Ours “ (Penguin Books, April 23), a modern retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus. The novel, set in 2005, follows 24-year-old Jane, whose rising concern for the world around her pushes her to run away. SMITH And how did those issues you were reporting on shape the book’s themes?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama. 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”. . Attorney General.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The entire political spectrum wants to see a 'green recovery'. The world is not going to be any less competitive after coronavirus. The Chancellor Rishi Sunak served up a host of green infrastructure and financial measures, but has kicked many key issues down the road. Ahead of yesterday's Budget, anticipation was high.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has just published the book on the net zero transition. What the CCC's Sixth Carbon Budget has in common with those various masterpieces - apart from the fact it too will be referenced by far more people than ever read to the end - is that it is about to become, in its own way, a canonical text.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

The government dedicates six pages of its new report into the benefits of Brexit to net zero, climate, and environment policy - but do Ministers' boasts stand up to scrutiny?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Just two weeks ago, the Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly that the world could not afford to "dither and delay" on tackling biodiversity loss, yet yesterday marked 200 days since the government's landmark Environment Bill was last seen in parliament. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For those coming from the western world, visiting Jharkhand and other towns in India’s mica belt can be a jolting experience. And realizing and how different of a world it felt compared to how growing up in California was for me.". How transforming the mica supply chain transforms lives. Joel Makower. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 02:11.

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