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Evidence the Tide is Turning: from Amazon, Walmart and Horizon
Written by Jon Biemer I’m heartened by evidence that corporate America really can step up to its responsibility to help sustain Spaceship Earth. Amazon’s packages Amazon has delivered a lot of packages to our home during COVID-19. That’s a lot of corrugated cardboard – and a lot of trees. I was […]
What Did You Do Once You Knew?
After I turned down an invitation to join friends for drinks and dinner because I had to give a climate presentation, my buddy asked me: “Why do you do this? You could work less and make more if you went back to marketing.” It made me stop and think. Why am I doing it? […]
Growth Economies and Our Climate Crisis
As I write this, Greta Thunberg is addressing the United Nations. Her comment is the perfect intro to this post. “Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” ‘Fairy tales of […]
Climate Change is Speeding Up the Future
The effects of climate change are moving ever faster. It’s now a cliché, almost a punch line, to observe that the one thing no climate scientist has ever said is, “Gee, that took longer to happen than I thought it would.” Daily we encounter new reports of warming accelerating, more greenhouse gases accumulating, ice-melt increasing […]
