Low Impact

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Here’s the third and final part of my interview with Caroline Bennett, founder of ‘Sole of Discretion’ (a community interest company that sells fish caught by a collective of small fishing boats in Devon) about why we should support small fishing boats over giant super-trawlers. Let’s get on to quotas.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. So what happened this year that built such momentum? [Happy New Year! Here we go. The Big Stories of 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

In a June 2023 video interview, Yannick Bolloré looks relaxed. His collar is open just enough to glimpse a gold pendant gleaming in the early summer sunshine. The rolled-back cuffs of his rumpled blue button-down reveal an array of mismatched wristbands. So why do you care about the climate?” billion euros (around $2.49

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. On the other, it propels us towards ecological disaster. Like Gail, you may wonder how we can possibly limit warming to +1.5° What does that mean? It is a complicated place.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

In a further sign of growing frustration within the business community about the government's failure to come forward with a raft of long-promised and much delayed policy plans to drive down emissions, the CBI's director-general Tony Danker is expected to ramp up calls for bolder action from Ministers in a speech later today.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Its direct emissions may have fallen 13 per cent, according to its Responsible Business Report, but overall emissions rose due to Scope 3 emissions that were driven up by increased server use and the post-covid return of business travel.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. and globally by 2040. and globally by 2040.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Second, once we are on the way to recovery, we will need to begin fixing the public finances - and I want to be honest today about our plans to do that. Second, once we are on the way to recovery, we will need to begin fixing the public finances - and I want to be honest today about our plans to do that.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Home Energy Monitoring 62

AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right Paolo Natali Thu, 06/25/2020 – 00:30 According to polls, it was mid-March when most of us in the United States understood the severity of COVID-19. What would be the exact growth curve of virus cases, and most important, how could we flatten it?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right Paolo Natali Thu, 06/25/2020 – 00:30 According to polls, it was mid-March when most of us in the United States understood the severity of COVID-19. What would be the exact growth curve of virus cases, and most important, how could we flatten it?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I have to look at the big picture. That’s my job as a leader and is what I was taught to do by my elders.”. Though early on few of the tribe’s members fell ill with COVID-19, the tribe has now lost several members in the latest surge and many continue to catch it. “Hurricane Ida humbled me,” she said.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

I recently spoke with Wayne Smith , Chairman and CEO of BASF Corporation and Member of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE, to learn about how his company is setting and achieving climate goals and how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting BASF’s view of sustainability and innovation. We have entered the decade of bold climate action.

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Startups Sustainability Plastics Innovation 98

Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

This piece is adapted from the forthcoming book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next , which will be published by University of California Press in September. Like a plague, the fires spread across Oregon and Washington, and then leaped over the continental divide to scour the Colorado Rockies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a unanimous decision, jurors agreed that both Simberg and Steyn defamed Mann in blog posts that compared Mann to convicted sex offender Jerry Sandusky, former assistant coach of football at Penn State University. Because they truly believe what they say or because they want to further their agenda?” he asked the jury.

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Global warming Climate change Fossil fuels Politics 145

Low Impact

JULY 12, 2020

Here’s a little story for anyone who’s noticed that things aren’t going too well in our communities. This story is about how it could be instead, based on an imaginary community in the North of England in a few years time – maybe five, maybe ten, maybe twenty (or maybe never, but let’s be optimistic).

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

Along her career path, Barton has learned what makes organizations fail, how they can succeed, and how to keep putting one foot in front of the other in the name of climate. Barton spoke with Greentown Labs CEO Emily Reichert and the Greentown community at a Fireside Chat in May. Read a partial transcript of their conversation below.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

A series of reports over the weekend has laid bare the mounting tensions at the heart of the government's net zero strategy – businesses and investors will be worried a critical opportunity could be squandered. Another told the paper that "washing plates has set our climate change messaging back a year".

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Government Policy Politics Climate change 75

Andrew Winston

MARCH 26, 2020

[This article was posted on MIT Sloan Management Review last week. Things are moving so fast with COVID-19. But by the time you get this, the US will have 90,000 cases alone. But I did feel the need to write something about what I was seeing in this historic, painful moment. On what day do you think it was half covered?

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Climate change Health Resilience Politics 103

Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

Along her career path, Barton has learned what makes organizations fail, how they can succeed, and how to keep putting one foot in front of the other in the name of climate. Barton spoke with Greentown Labs CEO Emily Reichert and the Greentown community at a Fireside Chat in May. Read a partial transcript of their conversation below.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Ripple Energy CEO and founder Sarah Merrick tells BusinessGreen how creating an affordable clean energy ownership model has built an engaged digital community of clean energy pioneers The UK's onshore wind industry has enjoyed a turbulent few years. However, hopes are growing that the winds of change could soon blow across the sector.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2020

I still have no clue how she managed to get us fed, clothed and happy. Building a new Society What kind of society can support its people to slack around and think about purpose in life? Such a society is called a ‘ post-scarcity society ’. An example of a post-scarcity society is Star Trek. But she did. Of course we can.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But sharing 900 acres with a handful of old oil wells seemed like a fair trade for a spacious ranch where the Briggs family could raise four kids and a mess of farm animals. This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. There is no Starbucks.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 96

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But sharing 900 acres with a handful of old oil wells seemed like a fair trade for a spacious ranch where the Briggs family could raise four kids and a mess of farm animals. This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. There is no Starbucks.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Extreme Weather and the Climate Crisis: What You Need to Know by the Climate Reality Project How the climate crisis is making weather more extreme. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We take delight in our work, offering installations and fence designs that look good, perform their function, add value to your property and stand the check of time. Only the best products and supplies are used and our service and workmanship is second to none. Mr Green Residence Providers 10% Off.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. and globally by 2040. .”

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

EVs are just one part of sustainable transportation Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 02/17/2021 – 01:15 Want more great analysis of electric and sustainable transport? While electric vehicles hold big promise in 2021, another aspect of decarbonizing transportation could get major support this year: reducing car driving.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

That’s why Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) seems an increasingly valuable aid to navigating a crisis like the current one. I t’s been a confusing year for anyone wanting to gain a clear picture of the prevalence of the virus SARS-Cov-2, and the dangers it presents. .

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Medicine 130

Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

By the way, Bendell was one of the first people to introduce me to the way money works, and how mutual credit could provide an alternative, in this TED talk from 2011.]. In fact, what does ‘collapse’ even mean? Most people get it – even if they’ve never really looked into it. Is collapse going to happen?

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Health Climate change COP Fossil fuels 143

Low Impact

MAY 16, 2021

In Part 1 we talked about LETSystems and why it didn’t grow in the way Michael would have liked, and in Part 2 we’re going to talk about his new idea – Open Money. What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? What’s your motivation? No-one knows what’s going on, but it’s coming down. It’s obscene.

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Government Packaging Energy Energy 61

Low Impact

AUGUST 23, 2020

And you’ve got a PhD from MIT, and you work on things like the cosmic microwave background of the universe, and quantum electrodynamics. And you’ve got a PhD from MIT, and you work on things like the cosmic microwave background of the universe, and quantum electrodynamics. Love what you’re saying. That’s news to me.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Sustainability 75

Low Impact

JUNE 21, 2020

I want you to imagine that you’re a shopkeeper. What are you going to do? Could there be other ways to cope, and even to thrive? I want a mug. You want a pen. But neither of us has any money. A trade takes place, and we both get what we want, without needing money. I want a mug.

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Sustainability 95

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

At Lowimpact we’re interested in helping to build a sustainable, democratic economy and strong communities. So I want to know why you do what you do, how you started and how it’s going? It sprang out of the mutual aid response to covid. Claire: People like Chorlton because it’s got this independent vibe.

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Ethics Europe South America Government 86

Greentown Labs

JULY 22, 2020

Greentown Labs has kept in close contact with our community of about 100 climatetech and cleantech startups since the COVID-19 crisis began, and we’ve heard a concern surface again and again: what does this period of economic uncertainty mean for startups who are trying to fundraise, and for climate investment in general?

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Investment Startups Technology Climate change 83

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The headline conclusion was that the UK has made encouraging progress in some sectors, nowhere near enough progress in many other areas, and must now seize the opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation efforts by delivering a green recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Government Policy 81

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Quit single use plastic, My low key cocaine habit. We hail from the US, Japan, Germany, Korea, Israel, Hungary, Ireland, the UK. The stars look like they have been painted on an infinite backdrop and the crackling of the fire and the chatter of young people is the only noise. One of our number knows what is coming.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Politics Agriculture 101

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

So before we talk about the details of the project, I want to talk about what drives you. So before we talk about the details of the project, I want to talk about what drives you. What’s the problem you want to help solve with your work? How could these economies work better for the people in them?

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