Archive for October 2018

Live Stream - Is It up to Business to Save the Planet?

October 29, 2018 Add Comment Edit

LIVE-STREAMED FROM MIT Critical Questions Live: Is It up to Business to Save the Planet? Thursday, November 1, 2018 1:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT. If you’re unable to watch the live-stream, still register! How much can we expect business to lead on sustainability? What should be a company’s biggest...

Event - 2018 Corporate Citizenship Conference

October 28, 2018 Add Comment Edit

This annual event will take place on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 to Thursday, November 15, 2018 Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - Thursday, November 15, 2018 at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, District of Columbia. This event is held in conjunction with ...

Event - The BSR Conference 2018: A Conference to Redefine Sustainable Business

October 28, 2018 Add Comment Edit

The event will take place November 6-8, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt in New York. The annual BSR Conference is one of the longest-running and most well-regarded sustainability conferences. Participants will attend from around the world, including senior executives from Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs,...

How Climate Change Could Hurt Southern Republicans in the Midterms

October 26, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Global warming has been a non-issue for most Republican voters, but that might change in the forthcoming midterm elections. On November 6th we may see the environment emerge as an important issue for some voters in Trump country. People in southern states are coming to terms with the fact that warming...

Climate Economics: Trump and Republicans Ignore the Math

October 24, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Neither Donald Trump nor Republican legislators acknowledge the benefits of climate action. They oppose the green economy while increasing US emissions that exacerbate climate change. They have increased the extraction fossil fuels while ending decades of bipartisan support for energy efficiency....

Trump and Hurricanes are like Oil and Water

October 22, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Trump does not do hurricanes well. In fact it would be fair to say that Trump relates to hurricanes the way oil mixes with water. Maybe it has something to do with his lack of empathy, perhaps it has to do with the fact that every extreme weather event exposes the irrationality of his rejection of...

Event - EHS & Sustainability Management Forum

October 21, 2018 Add Comment Edit

EHS&S Management Forum, October 23-26, Louisville Downtown Marriott, Louisville, KY, is NAEM’s annual conference for EHS and sustainability managers, directors and vice presidents. The 26th Annual EHS&S Management ForumThis year's EHS and Sustainability Management Forum will offer five tracks,...

Event - Net Impact Annual Conference: outside the lines

October 21, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Net Impact Annual Conference, will take place on October 25-28, 2018 at the Phoenix Convention Center, in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the annual gathering of purpose-driven university students and the organizations seeking to harness their talents after graduation. This year’s theme is “outside...

Event - New Metrics: The ROI of Sustainable Business

October 20, 2018 Add Comment Edit

New Metrics, will take place on October 29-31, 2018 at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, in Philadelphia, PA. is a geek fest for those steeped in the monitoring, measurement and reporting functions surrounding sustainability. The goal of the event, is to “translate social and environmental impact into...

The Implications of Trump's Reprehensible Rejection of Climate Science

October 18, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Like the Republican party he now owns, Donald Trump derides science because it exposes his ignorance. The enormous body of scientific evidence reveals the clear-cut fallacy of the denial of anthropogenic climate change. This is an egregious lie that jeopardizes national security and compromises people's...

Attribution Science Connecting Hurricane Florence to Climate Change

October 17, 2018 Add Comment Edit

We can now saw with ever increasing confidence that climate change is making storms more severe and more frequent and the situation will only worsen as the planet continues to get hotter. Advances in attribution science are making it clear that climate change is fueling deadly extreme weather events.The...

Best Evidence Yet that Climate Tipping Points Threaten to Push Us Past the Point of No Return

October 16, 2018 Add Comment Edit

A slew of studies confirm that we are nearing tipping points from which we may not be able to recover. Common sense calls for urgent action and if we act soon there may still be time. However, the hotter it gets the more likely it is that we will surpass tipping points that will accelerate warming...

IPCC Study Offers Another Dose of Climate Reality

October 15, 2018 Add Comment Edit

New research reaffirms that we are teetering on the cusp of a man-made climate calamity. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warns that governments must take urgent action to avoid "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society". The effects of catastrophic...

October 14, 2018 Add Comment Edit

This event will take place on February 20 - 22, 2019 in Paris, France. It is the largest exhibition of sustainable design products and services offered at the heart of an international and interdisciplinary forum.The Paris Design Summit 2019 takes real action to demonstrate the power of design to...

Nobel Prize for Climate Economics and Government Investments

October 12, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Two US economist were jointly awarded the Nobel memorial prize for economics for addressing two of the most "basic and pressing" issues of our times. One economist demonstrated the way government investments boost economic growth and the other was recognized for his work on the relationship between...