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Energy Sector Disruptors
“One cannot change an existing system; one must create a new system that makes the old system obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller. Implications of Climate Change on the Energy Sector Energy…
Geoengineering
Geoengineering: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly We were supposed to start to bring our emissions down globally at least two decades ago, but instead they have increased. Even…
Direct Air Capture
This technology is still in early stages of development. Commercial applications include: enhanced oil recovery, production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuel and plastics, as well as beverage carbonation.
Desertification/Land Use
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification defines desertification as land degradation, which is the “reduction or loss in arid, semi‐arid, and dry sub‐humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity…
Smart Cities
Sustainability is the process of maintaining change in a balanced environment, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are…
Health Impacts
“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense…
Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather History | References “Scientists predict a major upturn in the incidence of extreme weather events due to the changing climate. According to the National Wildlife Foundation, the maximum…
Global Dimming Dilemma
“We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in…
Coronavirus Pandemic
“However horrific the COVID-19 pandemic may seem, it is merely one symptom of gross human ecological dysfunction. The prospect of economic implosion is directly connected. The overarching reality is that…