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The Need For Pragmatic Environmentalism (Commentary)
2021-02-12 13:18:00| Waste Age
Ive been thinking a great deal lately about circles. For companies like mine that are relentlessly focused on creating sustainable solutions, the idea of achieving truly circular economic solutions (systems that eliminate waste and reuse our resour
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'Empathy,' not incentives or environmentalism, sells solar power in India
2015-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The market for off-the-grid solar products in India is heating up, with no incentive but profits. Almost 80 million households in rural areas have little or no access to power, but efforts by small and medium-sized companies to reach them might pay off in the coming years. Frontier Markets, a company co-founded by Ajaita Shah, a U.S.-based entrepreneur of Indian descent, that offers solutions ranging from solar lamps to full-blown solar home systems, is aiming at what appears to be a promising...
James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
2014-03-30 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock. The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that "its just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms. Speaking...
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A Chat With Greenpeaces Departing U.S. Chief on Old and New Environmentalism
2014-01-23 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: I was able to fit in 15 minutes this afternoon for an exit interview, in essence, with Phil Radford, who is leaving Greenpeace after 10 years of old-fashioned and innovative environmental activism, five at the helm of the organizations American branch. We discuss everything from Russias hard line with the Arctic 30 to Greenpeaces shift away from direct confrontation with Japans whaling fleet. We explore Greenpeaces unwavering no on nuclear power and its internal split over extreme tactics...
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Nuns With a New Creed: Environmentalism
2013-10-16 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: Every woman in this story is confoundingly non-descript. Short hair, often grey. Conservative dress. Unmarried; soft-spoken. Most are well into their seventies, and all will tell you that their way of life is dying out. They will also tell you, with surprising conviction, that the world is in peril. They are Roman Catholic sisters, from a variety of ordersDominican, Mercy, Passionistbut dont think Whoopie Goldberg or a young Sally Field. While many of their aged peers are living out their days...
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