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Evidence the Tide is Turning: from Amazon, Walmart and Horizon

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 01.31.2022

 

  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 […]

 

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What Did You Do Once You Knew?

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 11.12.2019

 

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?   […]

 

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Growth Economies and Our Climate Crisis

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 09.24.2019

 

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 […]

 

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Climate Change is Speeding Up the Future

Sean Munger 09.16.2019

 

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 […]

 

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