Episode 78: The Paris pullout, investor power and the era of remanufacturing

This week: Investors mobilize for climate action … why companies are turning a new leaf on deforestation …and why the hottest business trends are circular.

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Episode 78: The Paris pullout, investor power and the era of remanufacturing

Infographic: The World’s Greenest Countries

With ice caps melting at an alarming rate, worldwide coral reefs at risk of dying, and the fact that 2016 was the hottest year ever on record, we are becoming more aware of the role we play in combating global warming and saving the environment….

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Infographic: The World’s Greenest Countries

Top 15 GreenBiz interviews of 2013

Hear from leading figures in the business and nonprofit worlds about the hottest topics in sustainability this past year.

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Top 15 GreenBiz interviews of 2013

United Water CEO: Private equity and the future of water

Private equity investments may provide the key to better water infrastructure. 

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United Water CEO: Private equity and the future of water

Texas, Summer 2011: Officially the Hottest in U.S. History

Photo: accent on electric via Flickr/CC BY Yes, yes, you know it’s been hot and fiery and dry down there, and every subsequent news report you read only tells you things are getting worse. This one will be no different: Texas has officially experienced the hottest summer in recorded US history. The drought that stretched throughout the Dust Bowl may have been longer (we’ll see, we’ll see!), but this summer was hotter. Texas resembles hell right now, and least because a raving, science-denying religious zealot run… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Texas, Summer 2011: Officially the Hottest in U.S. History

2010 Still Hottest Year on Satellite Record So Far: NASA

Image: NASA, GISS And the heat keeps on coming. The records continue to be met or broken, and what was last month announced to be the hottest January-August period in the global temperature record has moved on to become the hottest January-September ever measured

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2010 Still Hottest Year on Satellite Record So Far: NASA

China Shutters 1,600 Dangerous Coal Mines

Photo: Telegraph China’s state-run newspaper is reporting that the nation has undertaken drastic measures to improve its mining industry, which is widely recognized as the most dangerous in the world. Perhaps in response to the massive media coverage of the Chilean miners’ stirring saga, China Daily is reporting that the People’s Republic of China has now shut down more than 1600 of its oldest, most unsafe mines. Two things come to mind in response to the rather amazi…

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China Shutters 1,600 Dangerous Coal Mines

And Thus Ends the Hottest Decade on Record . . .

Photo via the Portland Mercury Yup, the aughts or naughts or naughties or whatever you want to call them have been confirmed to be the hottest decade in recorded history –a full 0.2 degrees C warmer than the nineties.

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And Thus Ends the Hottest Decade on Record . . .