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Survive or Thrive in times of Economic Uncertainty

ByPiAdmin

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Dr. Edward F. Knab It doesn’t matter if they call it a recession, depression or something else, the world economies are on the brink of a double dip recession. Consumer confidence is is now at its lowest level in 50 years and companies must develop effective strategies in order to survive these challenging times. While there is little wrong with prudent cutting costs, the companies who emerge from economic…

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Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American

BySustainMe

Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American: ‘via Blog this’ I came upon this as I was building a WikiBook on Sustainability and Climate change. Wikipedia has a great coverage of Climate Change and it includes this great article. It is interesting how we Americans are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a low(er) carbon world. Much of the rest of the developed world has been working on lower emissions for more…

Internet will be underwater sooner than you might think

BySustainMe

Found this on the Weather Channel, where it discusses a study that discusses the impacts on rising oceans on… The Internet. It makes sense. Population centers are, what, 80% within a few miles of oceans. All the phone and Inet cables would run along roads through population areas… Business Insider discusses so called Sunny Day Flooding from high tied and kind tide. As the sea levels rise there will be more flooding. Flooding will start…

Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt – NYTimes.com: … Implications

BySustainMe

Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt – NYTimes.com: Or: http://nyti.ms/1sEIHC3  Studies published in the journals Science (here) and Geophysical Research Letters  (here) magazine find that the antarctic is melting, probably at a very very fast pace. The terms “beyond the point of no return” and “unstoppable” are used to describe the collapse of this glacial area in Antarctica. How long it will take is harder to predict. This really scares the bejeebers  out of everyone. Let me…

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Highlights from the new IPCC report. 10 charts.

BySustainMe

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/11/the-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-top-10-charts/?utm_content=bufferf5770&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The new IPCC report on Climate Change. It is a little bit of a long read… The report spends some time on probabilities, including what “business as usual” looks. BAU gets ugly, and uglier, and ugliest. Starting early, not later, seems to make sense…!!!