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
During the interactive roadshows, the Council’s Highways Team and partner organisations, including the Environment Agency and Thames Water, will also be on hand to offer information and advice on how local people can protect their home from flooding, including demonstrations of anti-flooding devices.
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Videos & articles to accompany upcoming book on new economy built around mutual credit
Low Impact
JANUARY 24, 2021
I have a contract to produce a book about growing a new economy ‘in the cracks in capitalism’, with mutual credit at the core. This article is a listing of key resources: video interviews I’ve done with relevant people whilst researching the book, plus articles providing additional information. Book information.
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Coronavirus Slows US Microgrid Market Despite Growing Need for Resilience
GreenTechMedia
JULY 28, 2020
microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S. and Eastern Seaboard.
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Personal resilience and Sustainability
Terra Infirma
MAY 10, 2021
One of my personal resilience tactics for elections has been to set a challenge for myself for the summer. In the evening I started making some travel bookings, so I’m getting rather excited. Therefore personal resilience is an essential ingredient in the Sustainability professional’s make up.
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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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Balancing Grit & Grace: Next-Level Resilience Strategies for Women Leaders • 9/8/21 and 9/15/21
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 16, 2021
Building Blocks of Resilience: Learn what resilience really is – what it isn’t – and how to source new energy on demand. Customization : Getting Bigger than your Challenges: Refine your resilience practice through coaching, activities and dialog. 4:10 – 4:50 Speaker Presentation: Building blocks of resilience.
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Episode 261: Sea changes, strategy shifts
GreenBiz
MARCH 26, 2021
Oceanographer John Englander chats with Senior Editor Deonna Anderson about his upcoming book, " Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward." . BSR's take on resilient business strategies (36:55). A new wave for ocean adaptation? (19:30).
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How much GWh storage capacity is needed for a resilient energy system?
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Phil Thompson, CEO of UK-based Balance Power, explains how much GWh storage capacity is needed for a resilient and renewable energy system and how to get these much-needed projects off the ground. Intermittency has long been the bane for grid operators seeking to bring more renewables online.
Awards shortlist
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2022
DPS Drilling & Pumping Supplies: Northern Resilience 3 with BSG & Northern Ireland Water. • Places can be booked online at www.pumpindustryawards.com/book-tickets , and with a record number of tables booked already, it’s looking to be a great event. . • Campion Pumps: Donabate Foul Pumping Station.
Online Event - Collective Resilience Summit
Green Market Oracle
MAY 11, 2020
The Collective Resilience Summit will take place May 12 - 17, 2020. This free, online and highly interactive summit will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom, skill and compassion.
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Power After Carbon
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Katherine and Stephen are joined by Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, author of a new book called, “ Power After Carbon.” At the turn of the last decade, Peter wrote a book called “Smart Power” that looked at the new pressures that utilities were facing around climate policy, emerging distributed energy, and digitization.
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A community leader on why aid work is necessary to build climate resilience
Grist
JUNE 28, 2023
For today’s newsletter, Grist’s project coordinator, Joshua Kimelman, talked with an organizer who is deeply familiar with direct aid and relief work about why these things are necessary for climate resilience. How do you see this type of work as related to your work in climate resilience and climate justice?
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How conservation makes dairy farms more resilient
EDF + Business
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Conservation can improve the financial health of dairy farms, according to a new report from EDF and K·Coe Isom AgKnowledge – How conservation makes dairy farms more resilient, especially in a lean agricultural economy. Dairy farmers in Pennsylvania and across the U.S. Key findings.
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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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Earth911 Podcast: Author Alice Hill on Building a Resilient Future
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
In an important new book about the climate challenges faced … The post Earth911 Podcast: Author Alice Hill on Building a Resilient Future appeared first on Earth911.com. View original post here: Earth911 Podcast: Author Alice Hill on Building a Resilient Future.
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America is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems. Can we build them?
GreenBiz
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? Risk & Resilience. Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems. Pull Quote.
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How Riverford is balancing, risk, resilience, and regenerative farming in drought-hit Devon
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. Cultivating more resilient crops. We should have spent the money, and so should our water companies.".
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Pumps trade association announces additional keynote speaker for its 2024 Annual Meeting
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2024
He is committed to driving smart, disruptive change to improve business outcomes and fulfil Xylem’s purpose of making water more accessible, affordable, and communities more resilient. As such, I would encourage anyone not already booked in to the event to do so straight away.” For information about the event see www.Europump2024.com.
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Rewriting the green growth rule book: How environmental regulation could help fast track the UK's economic recovery
Business Green
MARCH 1, 2021
Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc.
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Episode 243: VERGE voices with Apple's Lisa Jackson, 350.org's Bill McKibben
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 30, 2020
She chats about JPMorgan Chase's new financing commitment aligned with the Paris Agreement, how it's helping clients with their carbon mitigation journeys, and its strategy for supporting stronger community resilience. . Lessons in resilience from the produce industry. A 'Fixation' with fixing things (41:30) . Resources galore.
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A Little Distraction During the Election: Would I Lie to You?
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Today, non-wires alternatives like microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient, and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Interchange is brought to you by S&C Electric Company.
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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. Funding biodiversity (31:14).
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Episode 219: Water, workplaces and well-being
GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2020
Don't miss this one-on-one interview featuring GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower and well-respected sustainability consultant John Elkington, who recently published his 20th book, "Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism." Register for the live event at 1 p.m. EDT May 14. Circularity goes digital. EDT May 18.
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Autonomous Vehicles Are Going Off-Road
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Today, non-wires alternatives such as microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Interchange is brought to you by S&C Electric Company.
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Q&A: Delivering sustainable solutions to solve water challenges
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 22, 2023
Sustainability encompasses everything from ensuring resilience in the supply chain, to focusing on driving down carbon emissions, through to the broader catchment thinking that looks at the water cycle holistically. A hot topic at the moment is ensuring resilience and sustainability within the supply chain.
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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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The Virtuous Climate Tech Cycle of 2020
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Today, non-wires alternatives such as microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Interchange is brought to you by S&C Electric Company.
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Decoding the New Energy Customer
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Today, non-wires alternatives such as microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Interchange is brought to you by S&C Electric Company.
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Book Review | The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Originally published by Resilience. Read time: 9 mins By Frank Kaminski. The Crash of Flight 3804 is a triumph on two fronts. First, it’s a comprehensive history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East that manages the uncommon feat of placing this history into its proper context: America’s need for Middle Eastern oil.
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Revolutionizing the Supply Chain: Resiliency and Microgrids
GreenBiz
JUNE 1, 2022
They’re an intersection of environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and resiliency.
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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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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 & Resilience. Each can apply TCFD reporting intelligence to inform better decisions in different ways.
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FreeWire Technologies secures $125 million in Series D financing
Charged
MAY 16, 2022
In 2022, the company expects to roll out AMP Pro, which will provide distributed energy management services designed to unlock the value of the battery system through load shifting, demand charge management, resiliency, and more, followed by Charging as a Service in 2023.
The Bumpy Road to a Hydrogen Economy
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Today, non-wires alternatives such as microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Interchange is brought to you by S&C Electric Company.
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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. Sustainability and business 3.
Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.
Grist
APRIL 6, 2021
Painting a more complex picture of the past — one that includes stories of resilience in the face of abrupt shifts in the climate — might avoid the fatalism and despair that sets in when many people grasp the scale of the climate crisis. While 77 percent of the studies emphasized catastrophe, only 10 percent focused on resilience.
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Using Mindfulness to Seed Climate Innovation & Equity • 1/27/22
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JULY 2, 2021
A panel exploring how mindfulness practices can bolster climate tech innovation, equity, and personal resiliency. To jump-start the new year, WCS presents a discussion on how simple, yet profoundly impactful, mindfulness practices can bolster climatetech innovation, equity and personal resiliency. January 27, 2022. Virtual Event.
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Zoom in on Net Zero - with clean tech author Ketan Joshi
Business Green
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Science, climate and clean tech writer and analyst joins BusinessGreen editor in chief James Murray to discuss his latest book Windfall, and Australia's ongoing political battles over climate action. Ketan Joshi is a leading energy, science and technology writer and analyst from Australia, who is now based in Norway.
How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community
GreenBiz
JUNE 8, 2020
To engender community resilience? Watch movies and read books that can help educate you on the black experience and race in America. My good friend Joel Makower asked some poignant questions in his recent open letter. Among them: What led you to this work in the first place? Was it to protect the unprotected?
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Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank, co-founders and principals of consultancy Read the Air, chat about their new book, "Leading Sustainably: The Path to Sustainable Business and how the SDGs Change Everything." Creative disruption: Design thinker TIm Brown, chair of IDEA, discusses the two major models that catalyze systems change.
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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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Where can you recycle unusual items?
Greenability Magazine
AUGUST 4, 2020
Many hard-to-recycle items like electronics, books and scrap metal can be recycled at three Kansas City locations. Books, including hard and soft cover, encyclopedias and catalogs. Paperboard, paper towel rolls, phone books. Bridging The Gap operates the Kansas City, MO recycling centers from 9 a.m. – South – 5200 E.
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Leading in a fundamentally changing world
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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