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Apple’s Ambitious Recycled Materials Goal

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 05.03.2017

 

Read the full article at Triple Pundit.   Electronic waste, commonly called e-waste, is a big problem. Over 20 million tons of e-waste are produced annually, around 3.4 million tons of which hail from the U.S. According to iFixit, e-waste in the U.S. alone would weigh more than the combined weight of every living blue whale. […]

 

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When Rising Seas Transform Risk into Certainty

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 05.01.2017

 

When Elisa Staton found a small house a block from the water in Larchmont-Edgewater in 2005, she was thinking of the neighborhood’s grand trees and Tudor-style houses, of the elementary school she hoped to send her kids to, once she had them. She wasn’t thinking much about flooding, though she knew the house was in […]

 

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Federal Utility CEO: Coal plants not reopening under Trump

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.28.2017

 

The CEO of the nation’s biggest public utility said Tuesday that the agency isn’t going to reopen coal-fired power plants under President Donald Trump, who has promised a comeback for the downtrodden coal industry.   Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Bill Johnson said he thinks very little will actually change for the federal utility under Trump. TVA […]

 

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Sea Level Rise Refugees

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.26.2017

 

Coastal city residents are not the only people who should be directly concerned about climate change driven sea level rise. With a displacement number as high as 13.1 million people, we must logically think about where those sea level rise refugees will go. And according to a recently published study in Nature, Atlanta, Houston and […]

 

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Saving Seeds for an Uncertain Climate

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.24.2017

 

An organization in California is preserving unusual varieties of fruits and vegetables that might flourish in a warmer climate. When Rowen White was 17 she started working on an organic farm. And she discovered that there was more to the world of fruits and vegetables than what’s for sale in most supermarkets.   White: “We […]

 

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Google ‘Street View’ Cars Hunt for Methane

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.21.2017

 

Google gathers images for its street view application by sending cars with cameras to drive through cities and towns. Karin Tuxen-Bettman of Google says some of these cars have been given an additional mission. “While the street view car’s driving around capturing 360-degree imagery of all the public roads it drives on, it’s also capturing methane […]

 

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One Silver Lining to Sea Level Rise

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.19.2017

 

This is the one silver lining of our predicament: If we get adaptation right, we’ll not only preserve our cities – we’ll upgrade them. Global-­warming denialists, including, at times, the new US president, claim that climate change isn’t happening. This is abject nonsense – ask anyone who lives near an ocean. They’re all dealing with […]

 

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A German Village Generates 500% More Energy Than It Needs

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.17.2017

 

Wildpoldsried, a Bavarian village of about 2,600 residents, is leading the way in Germany’s extraordinary renewable energy transformation. Over the past 18 years, the village has invested in a holistic range of renewable energy projects that include 4,983 kWp of photovoltaics, five biogas facilities, 11 wind turbines and a hydropower system. As a result, the […]

 

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Preparing for the Future: Lessons From Hurricane Sandy

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.14.2017

 

Ground floor is not quite the term for it. At a new gallery, classroom and office building under construction in the West Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the main floor is more than four feet above the ground. This is no mere design conceit. Elevated floors are an imperative in flood-prone areas like the site of the […]

 

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The Solar Singularity

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager • 04.12.2017

 

The “solar singularity” is the point where solar becomes so cheap in a majority of countries around the world, that it is established as the default new power source.  I’ll cover not only solar, but also battery storage, electric vehicles and self-driving cars, which together constitute the parallel and intertwined revolutions that are set to […]

 

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David Houle David Houle

 

David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He worked at NBC, CBS, and was part of the senior executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News.

 

Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys, the prestigious George Foster Peabody award, and the Heartland award for “Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream”. He was also nominated for an Academy Award. He is the Futurist in Residence at the Ringling College of Art+ Design.

 

He has delivered some 700 speeches on six continents and thirteen countries. He is often called “the CEOs’ Futurist” having spoken to or advised 3,500+ CEOs and business owners in the past eight years.

 

Houle coined the phrase the Shift Age and has written extensively about the future and the future of energy. This is his seventh book.

 

His primary web site is www.davidhoule.com

 


 

Tim RumageTim Rumage

 

Tim Rumage is a planetary ethicist and naturalist. Taking an interdisciplinary and systems thinking approach to education, he has been teaching at the intersection of Science, Ecology, Art, Design and Architecture for more than 30 years.

 

Tim is the Coordinator/Developer of Environmental Studies at Ringling College of Art and Design where he teaches courses on environmental science, sustainability, creating ecological cities, applied environmental design, food, water, biodiversity and environmental ethics. He is also a Coordinator for Sustainability in Design Education for CUMULUS and a frequent lecturer at other colleges and for community organizations.

 

As a trained field biologist, Tim has done research on Marine Mammals, Pelagic Birds, Bats, Habitat Restoration and Land Planning. He has been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary projects in the US and Africa involving habitat restoration and protection, green infrastructure, local food production and sustainability. Tim’s current work focuses on the economic value of nature and nature’s services.

 

His primary web site is http://planetaryethicist.com/

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Planetary Ethicist Tim Rumage on Plastic bottles

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Quartermaster’s Report

 

There are two questions you might consider as you review the Quartermaster’s report.

 

First – how well do your assumptions about each topic match the reality of the data?

 

Second – does the information reflect an outcome that you wish humanity to achieve?

 

Your reflections on your answers to these two questions determine your consciousness and participation in defining and creating our common future.

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