Five Harvard University professors speak about confronting the challenge of climate change on campus and beyond. Video produced for Harvard’s annual Green Carpet Awards sustainability celebration and recognition event: www.green.harvard.edu/greencarpet.
One of the world’s largest oil reserves is right here in North America. With it, we can fuel economic growth and build energy security for the country.
Learn more about how ExxonMobil is improving U.S. energy security and helping the economy.
Coal provides half of America’s electricity, but at what cost? Though rhetoric about clean coal abounds, 36 of US global warming emissions comes from our coal – burning plants. Every 11 1/2 days, the explosive equivalent of the Hiroshima atomic bomb is unleashed upon the mountains of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. In Burining The Future – Coal In America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, ordinary citizens launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting their mountains, saving their families and preserving their way of life. Burning the future exposes the truth behind mountaintop coal extraction and offers tools for everyone to carve out a cleaner future.
CPSL, together with the Cambridge Judge Business School and the support of the European Climate Foundation is publishing a series of documents synthesising the most pertinent findings of AR5 for specific economic and business sectors.
What is the IPCC? serves as a basic primer explaining the process of compiling AR5 and its significance.
Climate Science summarises the core science of climate change for business as published by the IPCC in October 2013.
Subsequent documents will be released as the scientific information upon which they are based becomes publically available in early 2014.
The first government shutdown in 17 years might never have happened if the Supreme Court didn’t open up the floodgates of corporate money with its 2010 Citizens United decision.
A quick introduction to the UNEP South-South Cooperation Exchange Mechanism. Join the Exchange Mechanism and help us improve this initiative: http://j.mp/EXMsurvey
Welcome to Transition Studies. To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil-fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy. This is not a trivial shift. It will require a major transition in all aspects of our lives.
This weblog explores the transition to a sustainable future on our finite planet. It provides links to current news, key documents from government sources and non-governmental organizations, as well as video documentaries about climate change, environmental ethics and environmental justice concerns.
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