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. A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 10, 2022

Harvard Professor and co-author of the book Power for All Julie Battilana and SSIR Academic Editor Johanna Mair will discuss the fundamentals of power, debunk the common myths surrounding it, and discuss how to harness power for positive impact in our lives and in the world. Power for All: Harnessing Power for Positive Impact.

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 23, 2022

The self-organizing system somehow leads politicians to put forward reasons why the changes ahead might be desirable (to avert climate change), or at least temporary (because of sanctions against Russia). This finding is not well known because academic researchers seem to operate in ivory towers.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 20, 2022

The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity. The 17 SDGs provide the blueprint for creating a more sustainable future for all and address many global challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Bullard and Wright book provides a bridge of sorts to the more academic titles that follow, works that shift the focus from environmental justice to climate justice. Among this second set of three titles, the new book by prolific legal scholar Cass Sunstein is likely to garner the most attention.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

As Simone Browne demonstrated in her book Dark Matters , contemporary tech-enabled surveillance practices are an extension of the long history of policing Black life in the United States from slavery onward. The Problem With Tech-Solutionism.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

As a result, genuine changes for the better may not be acknowledged and emulated, while changes for the worse, which are bound to happen, may be taken for granted or misunderstood. There’s a growing body of research on climate feedback loops,” says Allyson Book, VP of Energy Transition at Baker Hughes. ‘’And Footnotes. [1]

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 2, 2022

They are likely not engaged in journalistic, academic, or creative writing activities that could leverage stories from their journey to inform innovative new products and services, as well as the future of public interest technology.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 11, 2016

This generous gift by Jeffrey Cheah will create and curate the world’s best curriculum, academic, and executive programs on sustainable development. The Sunway Education Group still maintains significant academic ties with Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and Lancaster Universities. The Jeffrey D.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I see that in my teenage daughters and their friends; they keep hearing that the world will end, climate change will drastically impact their lives, and they’re feeling a sense of hopelessness, which is understandable. It’s hard to get through the days with that on your mind. But this is not about the power of positive thinking.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 27, 2023

The brainchild of the project, the Green School initiative, was integrated in all Bhutanese schools and focuses on eight elements of greenery: natural, social, cultural, intellectual, academic, aesthetic, spiritual and moral. Powdyel wrote about this initiative in his book My Green School: An Outline.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Contributors to the white paper include leading academics, local authorities, the Durham Energy Institute, Coalfields Regeneration Trust, British Geological Survey, Coal Authority, the Environment Agency and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). For more information visit www.northeastlep.co.uk.

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EJOLT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Today, “degrowth economics” is an activist academic discipline with dozens of top-quality peer reviewed papers , widely translated books like ‘ Degrowth. An example is the growing alliance with the climate justice movement, as shown during the Climate camp in Germany in these last two years at least.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

At the governmental level, our county was being looked at as a really important county for having a conversation around climate change, because we have so many climate change pressures. Pretty much all our county will feel the impact, or is already feeling the impacts, of climate change.

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Gail Tverberg

OCTOBER 18, 2021

” In fact, this shape seems to approximate the type of cycle Turchin and Nefedov observed when analyzing several agricultural civilizations that collapsed in their book Secular Cycles. [4] The world’s biggest problem is climate change.” 9] Major changes for the worse seem to be ahead for the world economy.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This represents a seismic shift in corporate climate commitments. Biogen has partnered with the Harvard T.H.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This represents a seismic shift in corporate climate commitments. Biogen has partnered with the Harvard T.H.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says. The producers shared with me how climate change affected their crops and lives.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Witnessing the disproportionate impacts of climate change – floods, earthquakes and heat waves – deepened my resolve,” he says. Prior to that, she led the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Orillia, Ontario, implementing new EV chargers and undertaking an energy-management analysis of city facilities.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

My inbox and bookshelf have been groaning lately under the heft of some weighty books, essays and reports heralding a kinder, gentler era for capitalism. For most of those years, those visions and proposals were relegated to a relatively small group of academics and activists toiling in a world unto themselves. Joel Makower.

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Matthew E. Kahn

JANUARY 23, 2022

"How does their agenda affect the macroeconomy, the wealth distribution and the risks posed by climate change?" What if the Federal Reserve was run by John Cochrane and there was no Climate Change Mandate? In the face of ambiguous climate change, some of these bets will prove to be "bad bets".

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

The oil industry’s lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute, suggested in a new draft statement that it might support Congress putting a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change, even though oil and gas are major sources of those greenhouse gas emissions. A carbon tax could be passed decades before 2050.

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Matthew E. Kahn

JUNE 9, 2021

Back in 2011, my old friend Enrico Moretti published his important New Geography of Jobs book. In 2021, I have published two books that flesh out this point. As we face the climate change challenge, those geographic areas that develop an edge in being resilient in the face of climate risks will experience greater economic growth.

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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. Climate Change Conference in Paris.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

See my academic paper, Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis. The standard narrative about green energy saving the world from its climate change gives great opportunities for governments to subsidize wind turbines and solar panels, battery manufacturing plants, and the building of electric vehicles.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 2, 2024

Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. The task at hand goes beyond the academic concept of interdisciplinarity , which is often used as a semantic shortcut to signify broader collaborations across professional and social boundaries.

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

It is also used for secondary and university education and for doctoral theses and articles and academic books. The EJAtlas, which is the result of academic-activist collaboration, is popular with environmental justice organizations in many parts of the world. So, which actors could play a key role?

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Most people attending my talk reported that they had mostly heard about the issue on the right end of Slide 2: the problem of using too much fossil fuel and related climate change. This seems to be the academic specialty that finds holes in other people’s wishful thinking. This is a physics issue. On Slide 4, note that M.

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Tobias Webb

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As academics have noted: “…scientists have estimated that restored forests could sequester up to 16% of the carbon needed to limit global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, while generating some $84bn in assets such as timber and erosion control”. To this end, pledged restoration is clearly a good start.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 29, 2024

Yes, growth has brought prosperity and untold riches, but it has had significant negative side effects for the planet, including climate change, pollution and species extinction. Many commentators believe that the world should move away from measuring economic success in terms of GDP growth. None of these are captured in GDP data.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

What seemed to resonate best in follow-up discussion was the possibility of analogizing our climate crisis to the issues of forced labor and LGBTQ rights, regarding which corporations have been willing to embrace a relatively simple and effective moral framing, language, and demand. . Dignity First Economic Leadership.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We polled some of our favorite thinkers and doers in the SSIR world to recommend the best book they read this year, and why. Auden Schendler, author of Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul : Readers should check out two books that are related in their iconoclasm.

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