A new report on potentially inundated areas (PIA) shows that, by century’s end, more than 300 million people’s homes will be innundated or regularly flooded by rising seas.
This will likely result in massive instability, millions of environmental migrants (EM), battles over land rights and enormous economic strains over how to pay for any actions taken.
At this point, it’s probably a good idea to keep some galoshes handy.
[The first in our 2-part series on vertical solar.]
Upright solar innovations that are radically different from – and take up far less space than – garden-variety solar farms may well revolutionize the industry in the next few years.
Some vertical panels can capture light far longer than horizontal ones, as they can continue to produce power even as the sun is low on the horizon.
As with the image of humanoids learning to stand upright, vertical just might be the next step in the evolution of solar.
It’s clear there’s a long way to go before real gender equality in the workplace is achieved.
This isn’t a drill, it’s existential, for it’s not only equity at stake, but profits. So what, exactly, must companies do to make that happen?
Here’s a simple tool for gender-equity measurement called RISE (Rating Index of Systemic Equality) that gives a clear picture of the company’s efforts, results, and opportunities.
The most common way of thinking about risk is deeply flawed. Yet there is a better way to calculate risk, while factoring in submerged risks too.
[Adapted from a July 24, 2020 interview ]
Recently, we spoke with Andrew Gottlieb, Founder of the purpose-driven online marketing and branding company No Typical Moments.
The topic was Gottlieb’s other passion, a podcast series called The School for Humanity wherein he speaks with thinkers and strategists from all over the spectrum, with a focus on entrepreneurs and those working on sustainable projects.
He shared some of what he’s learned through interviewing so many interesting people. Here are the highlights.
It’s highly anomalous that a major cyclone just made landfall on the West Coast of India, in June, within spitting distance of Mumbai.
So, what’s up with this? Is it random chance?
Nope. According to scientists, it’s just your friendly neighborhood climate change.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world that we are far more vulnerable, unequal, and deeply connected than we realized. Yet it has also proven we can act at speeds, scales, scopes, and levels of coordination and financial commitment we didn’t believe possible.
Now we must now apply the same level of speed, coordination, and courage to tackling the other critical issues we face: the climate crisis, inequality, racism, health care, and more.
The COVID Covenant is an iron-clad commitment to make this happen – to make the impossible possible. We’re not going back, we’re going BIG. Right now!
The 50th Anniversary of Milton Friedman’s famous screed on the folly of social responsibility for businesses is fast approaching.
With a half-century now under our belts since then, we thought a (posthumous) chat with Mr. Friedman to review the results might be illuminating.
Some moments are so terrible and so clear that they spur change and demand action. The murder of George Floyd at the hands of officers of the Minneapolis Police Department is one of those moments.
Justice and equity are simply fundamental values, part of the definition of the world we want. And we need to bring them to life through action.
I was only five, but I remember the hunt for the bodies of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman after the Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi in 1964. I recall watching the search on TV, my parents’ anguish, how sickened they appeared. A local Black man and two Jewish men from New York City had gone missing,…
