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Many of us have heard about the havoc climate change is causing in the great north -- from Alaska to Siberia.
For example, melting permafrost is causing roads and homes to crack, telephone polls to fall over, and trees to tilt, creating what appear to...
Joel Makower over at GreenBiz has a thought-provoking piece from Copenhagen. It's rooted in a challenge made by UN Climate Change Secretary, Yvo de Boer, to top business executives attending the conference:
The day began with a challenge from de...
I enjoyed this piece -- unusually ponderous for GreenBiz -- as much as it's provocative title:
Whatever is determined in Copenhagen this month, the change has occurred, and is occurring as you read this.
In fact, the change is now as real to markets...
Good post on The Triple Pundit, reporting from a workshop on how to be a sustainability change agent. Says the author:
The take home message–a Change Agent needs to create alliances with Innovators and Transformers and avoid the negativity of...
One thing we need to be careful of is that, as the last century has shown us, with new technologies come new forms of toxic solution.
Treehugger reports that nanotechnology is no exception:
As the use of silver nanoparticles increases, in everything...