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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” Benedek took a job at Scripps Research in San Diego, where he was briefly a professor.

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Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress

GreenBiz

Research on the efficacy of measurement and the endless refinement of non-financial reporting are actually distractions from the much-needed work of systems change. From 1992 to 2007, I worked at the footwear and apparel company Timberland, which prided itself on being a force for social and environmental good.

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Why raising interest rates to reduce inflation may work out very badly

Gail Tverberg

By 2010, per capita energy consumption was back above the 2007 and 2008 values. [3] It is clear from Figure 4 and Figure 6 that between 2001 and 2007, the quantity of energy consumed per capita was rising rapidly. As a result of this greater demand, oil prices were increasing between 2001 and 2007.

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Farmers and local knowledge critical to stewardship of Earth’s life support systems, says UK-China study

Envirotec Magazine

The researchers suggest that the new diagram should replace a widely used, more simplified graphic, introduced in 2007, which focused on the natural processes that shape the critical zone without addressing human impact on landscapes. Critical zones and SDGs: One of the diagrams featured in the paper.

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Spike in energy prices suggests that sharp changes are ahead

Gail Tverberg

The world’s biggest problem is climate change.” ” In fact, there was no real reason to believe that the shortage situation had changed. The approach looks great in academic papers, but it leads to rolling blackouts and unfilled natural gas reservoirs for winter. [9]

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The oil industry says it might support a carbon tax – here’s why that could be good for producers and the public alike

Renewable Energy World

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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Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance

Corporate Knights

In 2007, he was elected MP for the Montreal riding of Outremont, representing the New Democratic Party, which had never made inroads in Quebec. Now retired from politics, Mulcair has made sustainable development the focus of his academic career. Clearly Mulcair’s convictions were, at times, inconvenient.