Archive for May 2020

Online Event - Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity Virtual Conference

May 31, 2020 Add Comment Edit

This virtual event will take place on June 5, 2020 from 9 a.m. to noon as part of World Environment Day (WED). Montréal is the North American host city for WED. This event is being organized by Space for Life and the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. It imagines the...

The Deadly Implications of Trump's Cuts to Environmental Protections

May 28, 2020 Add Comment Edit

President Donald Trump's cuts to environmental protections are even more deadly in the era of COVID-19. The United States has reached the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths, that is more than 33 times the number of people that died in 9/11 and more than the number of US troops killed in the...

Online Event - Electrifying the Economy: Reducing Carbon While Creating Jobs

May 27, 2020 Add Comment Edit

This online event will take place on Thursday May 28, 2020, 1 PM – 2 PM. The climate change debate is often dominated by doom and gloom headlines. The idea of electrifying our economy offers a positive vision of the future. Widespread electrification of energy, industry and transportation could create...

The Coronavirus has Improved the Way We Work

May 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The coronavirus is a turning point that has changed the way we work. Remote working was already trending before the pandemic hit. However, the number of people working from home increased from 3.6 percent to 66 percent during the pandemic. The work from home trend has been facilitated by the proliferation...

Virtual Conference - Advances in Electric Drives, Process Control and Automation (VCADPCA2020)

May 24, 2020 Add Comment Edit

This virtual global scientific forum will take place online on June 9, 2020. VCADPCA2020 is a platform for researchers, academicians as well as professionals from all over the world to present, discuss and promote advances in knowledge, research and practice in the field of electric drives, process...

COVID-19 can be a Paradigm Changing Social Tipping Point for Climate Action

May 22, 2020 1 Comment Edit

The coronavirus may facilitate fundamental changes that help us to combat climate change. This pandemic has captured global attention and there is reason to believe that it may augur an unprecedented shift in our attitudes and behaviors. At the very least it sets the stage for a reorganization...

Republicans Controlled by the Fossil Fuel Industry are Killing Climate Action

May 20, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Despite a plethora of scientific warnings and the overwhelming economic logic of climate action, the alliance between Republicans and the fossil fuel industry is keeping climate denial and dirty energy alive. Republicans have systematically undermined democracy through protracted campaigns of disinformation...

Energy Job Losses in the US Due to COVID-19

May 18, 2020 Add Comment Edit

COVID-19 has caused massive energy job losses. Some sectors have been hit harder than others and while many energy jobs will return others may not. Our economies will be decimated by the coronavirus and millions of jobs have disappeared forever, however, there is an upside to this deadly pandemic that...

Webinar - A Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time

May 17, 2020 Add Comment Edit

A free report release webinar titled "Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time," will take place on Tuesday, May 19th from 2-3pm EDT. It will explore the contents of the NSF Earth Sciences report which identifies priority research questions as well as the initiatives and partnerships...

Trump Guts ESA as Part of his Ongoing War with Nature

May 15, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The Trump administration is behind a steady barrage of environmental insults but the assaults on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are among the most heinous. While this administration has amassed a track record of harming wildlife, the weakening of the ESA is the crowning achievement of their...

How Supply Chain Resilience Mitigates Against Risks from Pandemics and Climate Change

May 14, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. Now more than ever companies need to increase their efforts to build more resilience into their supply chains so that they can quickly respond...

How the Coronavirus Helps Renewable Energy and Hurts Fossil Fuels

May 12, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Covid-19 is helping to drive a seismic shift in energy that will accelerate the rise of renewable energy and expedite the demise of dirty energy. Replacing fossil fuels with clean energy is an absolutely essential part of keeping temperatures within acceptable limits. A report commissioned by...

Online Event - Collective Resilience Summit

May 11, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The Collective Resilience Summit will take place May 12 - 17, 2020. This free, online and highly interactive summit will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom, skill and compassion. This entails...