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Event - Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

November 30, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability will take place on January 29-31, 2020 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile & University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. The special focus will be Sustainability Lessons in the Global South:...

November 29, 2019 Add Comment Edit

What are the alternatives to Black Friday and why do we need an alternative? Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year. Millions of shoppers will flock to retail outlets as part of an annual consumer frenzy. Shoppers are willing to wait in line and compete with other bargain hungry Americans...

Thanksgiving Gratitude and Learning to Live in Harmony with the Natural World

November 28, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States and people across the nation are celebrating by coming together to give thanks. This is the holiday long weekend when people get together to celebrate the bounty of the fall harvest. Thanksgiving traces its origin to a 1621 feast the Wampanoag people shared...

Four Fossil Fuel Divestment Narratives and their Constituencies

November 27, 2019 Add Comment Edit

There are four major overlapping justifications for fossil fuel divestment. These four overlapping narratives are existential, moral, justice and economic. Each one of these four arguments has its own constituencies.1. Existential: This discourse suggests that fossil fuel use must be eliminated as...

We Need Alternatives to Traditional Air Travel

November 26, 2019 Add Comment Edit

It is for good reason that Greta Thunberg's much publicized efforts to avoid travel by air have made headlines. She has put the spotlight on the climate impacts associated with air travel. Emissions in the transportation sector are significant and aircraft are particularly carbon intensive. It is clear...

November 25, 2019 Add Comment Edit

CES Paris will take place in June, 2020. There will be more than 300 people attending this event including more than 70 corporates and 65 speakers. The second edition of CES Europe participants will discuss the increasingly sophisticated array of options, spread and share best practice and network...

Event - International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation (ICEPR’20) Call for Papers

November 24, 2019 Add Comment Edit

The 10th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation (ICEPR’20) will take place on August 19, 2020 - August 21, 2020 in Prague , Czech Republic.The Conference Proceedings will be published with an ISSN and ISBN, indexed in Scopus and Google Scholar, and archived permanently...

Decarbonization through Electrification in the Transportation Sector

November 23, 2019 Add Comment Edit

The transportation sector is the largest source of emissions in the U.S. and the second biggest source of GHGs globally. Reducing transportation emissions is an essential part of keeping temperatures below critical thresholds (1.5 - 2 C). The key to reducing emissions in this sector is scaling up zero...

Transportation Sector Emissions and Climate Change

November 22, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Transportation is a massive and growing problem contributing to the climate crisis. As a large and increasing source of greenhouse gases (GHGs) we will need to see significant changes if we are to keep emissions from pushing us past the internationally agreed upon upper temperature limits (1.5-2C above...

Ending Fossil Fuels is Necessary but it Won't be Easy

November 21, 2019 Add Comment Edit

The fossil fuel industry stands in the way of climate action and they are not going away without a fight. We know what must be done but due to manipulation and obfuscation we do not have sufficient public awareness or bipartisan political will. Ending fossil fuels starts with reigning in the...

November 20, 2019 Add Comment Edit

For years the fossil fuel industry worked to undermine climate action now they have adopted two new approaches to climate denial. Climate scientist Michael Mann says focusing on individual behavior is the fossil fuel industry's latest climate denial tactic. “[T]here is an attempt being made by...

November 18, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Renewable energy is an emissions free source of power production that can both improve air quality and mitigate against climate change. For these and other reasons clean energy is vital to the future of life on the Earth. Interest in renewables continues to grow and this is driving a green jobs boom....

November 17, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Ener-Rev will take place on April 21, 2020 at the Intercontinental Marceau Hotel, Paris. France is the second largest European economy and home of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and is now a key European player in the renewable energy space. With a mature onshore wind sector, a fast-evolving...

Event - E-TALIA Summit: Call for Sponsors and Speakers

November 16, 2019 Add Comment Edit

The E-TALIA Summit will take place April 28 & 29, 2020, at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Milan. More than 300 people are expected to attend. With more than 25 hours of content and more than 80 speakers this will be an important clean energy event.In such a fast-paced environment E-TALIA can help you...

Global Warming is Still Real Even if it is Cold Where You Are

November 15, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Cold temperatures and snowfalls confuse some people and cause them to question the veracity of global warming. However, climate change is a function of global average temperatures over protracted periods of time. A cold snap or a snowstorm is not proof one way or the other. We need to understand...

Governments Engaging in Climate Denial While their Citizens Suffer from the Effects of Climate Change

November 14, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Politicians who fail to act on climate change should be held responsible. At the very least they are guilty of dereliction of duty and very likely the day will come when they are charged with ecocide. Governments large and small are making irrational decisions that fly in the face of both science and...

November 13, 2019 Add Comment Edit

After a string of heat records, we saw another all time global average heat record set for the month of October. According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, October 2019 beat out October 2015 for the dubious distinction. This is the fifth month in a row that has broken...

November 12, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Renewable energy is a central part of wider efforts to combat both climate action and ecological degradation. Renewables are a natural form of energy derived from sunlight, wind, waves, geothermal heat and tides. Common sources of renewable energy are hydropower, solar, wind, and geothermal. We must...

November 11, 2019 Add Comment Edit

CIREC Week will take place on March 31 - April 01, 2020 in Santiago Chile.This leading renewable energy congress meets South America’s first regional O&M congress. Bringing together Chile’s renewable value chain with a regional community of asset owners to create “the must attend event” in the...

Webinar - Clean Energy and a Green New Deal for Alberta

November 10, 2019 Add Comment Edit

How best to tackle Western alienation? An ambitious, made-in-Canada Green New Deal. By investing in clean tech industries and renewable power - like Alberta’s burgeoning solar sector - we’ll create millions of good jobs in the energy provinces.Want to know how we’ll make it happen? Join our webinar...

November 09, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Air travel is a major source of climate change causing greenhouse gases. Every day, the FAA's Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. As reported by Vox, airlines carried 4.3 billion...

The Booming Green Economy: The Number of Renewable Energy Jobs Crush Fossil Fuels

November 08, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Renewable energy is on the rise and the sun is setting on fossil fuels. The economic dominance of the old energy industry is coming to an end and a new economic powerhouse is gaining ground. Demand for coal has collapsed and oil and gas are sure to follow. Led by renewable energy the green economy...

Renewable Energy is Driving the Green Jobs Boom

November 07, 2019 Add Comment Edit

Clean energy offers many benefits not the least of which are jobs. The number of good paying green jobs keeps growing and renewable energy jobs are the leading the way. Renewable energy technologies employ millions of people around the world. Over the last few years the renewable energy sector...

What we Need to Combat Environmental Degradation and Climate Change

November 06, 2019 Add Comment Edit

The Earth's biodiversity is dying as the ecological web of life is breaking down. We have already witnessed significant decreases in the number of birds and insects including pollinators like bees and the future for these and many other species is bleak unless we rapidly change course.We are facing...

The Size of the Green Economy and the Growth of Renewable Energy

November 05, 2019 Add Comment Edit

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reports that there are $160 trillion of savings associated with renewables and other climate actions. Led by renewable energy the green economy is growing by leaps and bounds yet it is still an undervalued opportunity. Clean energy is benefiting from...