DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware. Available at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). THACKER: This was found by an attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law going through archives at the University of Michigan.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. In particular protein.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

One way the firm is working with communities is through its effort to grow the number of natural ingredients on its books, Behar says, explaining the drive to establish new value chains around tropical plants, nuts, and berries is designed to deliver economic benefits to traditional communities while simultaenously tackling deforestation.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

I’m from the US originally, and I came here with the Peace Corps about 12 years ago, and I’d read Bernard Lietaer’s books, and visited Berkshares and other places. But no laws were being broken, so we ended up doing an international petition, and eventually the public prosecutor said that there was no Kenyan law that we were breaking.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. Head to the Green Business Bureau website for more information and to book a free personal demo call. (followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2020

“There’s no chance that supermarket shoppers will mistake ‘all natural’ for a warning instead of an endorsement,” writes Alan Levinovitz in his new book. Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science. That’s extremely important, especially in times of crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Many experts and nonexperts alike consider the idea of deliberately mucking about with Earth’s climate systems to counteract centuries of mostly accidental mucking about in Earth’s climate systems ethically dubious and potentially highly dangerous. And that’s a huge intergenerational obligation, which engages really deep ethical concerns.”

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But we were not required to by law. That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. So, the values are “good” and “bad,” “right” and “wrong,” “moral/immoral,” “ethical/unethical.” It is really hard. We were just doing it.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? Yet, decent pay is more than just a question of ethics, it makes good business sense too. An open-book management policy builds trust, which lays the foundation for strong relationships.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet: Critical , science historian Naomi Oreskes spoke about her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , cowritten with Erik M. This is what Eric Conway and I wrote about in our new book. ORESKES Right.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Within the NDP he holds several roles, including ethics and federal development critic, as well as deputy labour critic, among others. If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

They wanted to build an ethical alternative. Expertise of local laws across Europe would be helpful too. Orders can be booked and the deliverer gets a notification. They wanted to build an ethical alternative. There’s interest in South America, and it’s all over Europe. It’s a co-op, decisions are taken by the members.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I’m reaching out to invite you to our show tomorrow to discuss how the media’s obsession with global warming manipulates the truth about wildfires,” a booking producer for the morning show Fox & Friends First wrote to Brown on September 5, 2023, proposing a five-minute video interview at 5:20 a.m. the next day. Brown was torn.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

But in April, Wheeler left government and joined the law firm Holland & Hart, which touted the benefits Wheeler could bring for its “energy and natural resources clients.” In 2021, Bernhardt returned to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the same law firm where he’d worked for oil industry clients before joining the Trump administration.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Thousands of people had bought tickets starting at $95 to hear the Canadian psychologist and star talent of conservative media outlet The Daily Wire promote his latest book, We Who Wrestle With God. The ethics filing was signed by the Heritage Foundation’s general counsel Daniel Mauler, who is listed as a contributor to Project 2025.

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