Tag: climate change
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My Paperless Pledge
Not too long ago, I instituted a paperless policy for my office – I have another hat I wear as a start-up and company consultant – where, as far as possible, I’d force my clients to go paperless as well. There is no reason to get something printed out on paper when the electronic version…
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Climate Change Is A Matter Of National Security
A super cyclone lashes the low lying Padma delta region, wiping out scores of villages and rendering millions of people homeless. The refugees who are able to start streaming onto higher ground, into already clogged and crowded cities like Chittagong and Kolkatta. And since we’re talking about millions of people – it becomes a catastrophe…
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Wear blue to go green this Saturday
They showed that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. The bad news is we’re already past that number – we’re at 390 parts per million, which is why the Arctic is melting, why drought is spreading across the planet, why humanity is facing perhaps its greatest challenge…
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Earth Hour
It doesn’t take much. Just turn off every darn thing in your house and wait an hour this Saturday:
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Renewable entitlement
I have to admit to enjoying watching Top Gear even though in this day and age, it really is wrong to enjoy fossil-fuel burning and carbon emitting activity but I suppose just watching is ok and if the world ends just blame the organisers. Having said that, I boldly propose that the organisers of all…