Archive for April 2017

Event - Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's 2017 Summit

April 30, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's 2017 Summit (SPLC Summit 2017) will take place on Monday, May 8, 2017 - Wednesday, 10, 2017 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown,1550 Court Place, Denver, Colorado. The Summit brings together 400+ leading procurement and sustainability professionals, suppliers,...

April 30, 2017 Add Comment Edit

The Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) General Assembly 2017 will take place October 8 - 13, in Vancouver Canada. This event has taken place every three years Since 1996. The international membership of the FSC comes together at this event to discuss the challenges and solutions of responsible forest...

Trump's First 100 Days are a Climate and Environmental Nightmare

April 29, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Trump's first 100 days have been a dismal failure. Trump failed to deliver on almost every single one of his promises leading many to conclude that the self-proclaimed deal-maker can't seem to close. True to his word he is making progress on one front, depriving Americans of clean air and clean water.Trumps...

Business Benefits from Science-Based Climate Action

April 28, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Science is important to governments, the economy and business. Leading sustainability focused corporate efforts are engaging science-based efforts including emissions reduction targets. Science is enhancing business and driving them to adopt fact-based objectives.There is a mutually beneficial...

War on Science Makes Fossil Fuels a Climate Archvillain

April 27, 2017 Add Comment Edit

In addition to their causal role in climate change the fossil fuel industry is guilty of promoting disinformation on a grand scale. Part of this propaganda effort involves attacking science. By waging war on science the fossil fuel industry had hoped to conceal their role as the leading driver of climate...

Scientists Take on Trump and GOP Climate Denial

April 26, 2017 Add Comment Edit

The March for Science that took place in more than 425 cities on Earth Day spearheaded critical resistance to the irrationality of the Trump administration and the GOP. The goal of the march was to advocate for "evidence-based policy-making, science education, research funding, and inclusive...

Sham Hearings Make a Mockery out of Climate Science

April 25, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Lamar Smith (R-Texas), is the Chair of House Science Committee and he has made some astounding claims about climate change that are clearly factually inaccurate. Smith is well known for harassing climate scientists and challenging government science agencies. He has also made spurious allegations...

April 24, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Leading corporations are helping to show the way forward this Earth Day and no company has come further in recent years than Apple. They were slow off the mark but since Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011 and hired former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in 2013 Apple has made amazing progress. Jackson...

April 23, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Renewable Energy UK will take place on May 6, 2017 in Cheltenham, UK. This discussion will highlight the latest methods to generate energy using solar panels. There will be unrivaled senior-level industry debate with an audience of more than 60 of the sector’s thought leaders and key decision makers.This...

Event - EcoLinks 2017 Environmental Education Conference

April 23, 2017 Add Comment Edit

EcoLinks 2017 Environmental Education Conference will take place on Friday May 5 to Saturday May 6, 2017, Niagara Region, Ontario. OSEE is hosting a suite of PD events to support educators with integrating environmental education into their teaching practice. The first event is the annual EcoLinks...

Earth Day 2017: We Have Met the Enemy and it is the U.S.

April 22, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Earth Day is celebrated around the world but the election of Trump and Republican lawmakers changes everything. Earth Day has been celebrated every April for almost half a century, during that time we have made considerable progress. The high point occurred exactly one year ago, today when the leaders...

Price Declines Driving Solar's Energy Leadership

April 19, 2017 Add Comment Edit

The declining costs of harvesting energy from the sun mean that market forces will drive the ongoing growth of solar energy. As predicted by GMO at the beginning of 2016 market forces are driving the growth of renewable energy. By the end of last summer, GMO reported that solar was emerging as the...

Event - CLIMATE MARCH (Peoples Climate Movement)

April 16, 2017 1 Comment Edit

The Peoples Climate March will take place on April 29th, 2017 in Washington, D.C. and across the country. It takes place on the 100th Day of the Trump Administration and the goal is to stand up for our communities and our climate and to show the world and our leaders that we will resist attacks on...