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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future

The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future Boyd, David R. [ https://ecwpress.com/products/optimistic-environmentalist ] A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a […]

Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

New assessment from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. This US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration – A Research Agenda (2018) Spread the word

Photos – DEEP RESILIENCE: 23, 24 and 25 October 2018 – Day 1

This very successful presentation was finished yesterday. All the photos from this event are posted here and can be used for free, with just one condition, let everybody know where they were taken! Spread the word

DEEP RESILIENCE: Our “Hotter, Wetter, Wilder” Challenge – Day 2

Day two of the conference started with Elliott Cappell, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Toronto and continued with TD Insurance representatives talking about various responses to climatic uncertainty and catastrophic events. Day was very successfuly concluded with Dr. Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at Waterloo University and Dan […]

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Use, Management and Conservation of Buildings of Historical Value 14 & 15th, November 2018, Hofburg, Vienna, Austria

Just in case anybody is interested. I have received  an invitation: 7th European Congress on the Use, Management and Conservation of Buildings of Historical Value 14 and 15th, November 2018, Hofburg, Vienna, Austria Spread the word

Importance of RESILIENCE for young generations

The homegrown outdoor exhibition held on the Toronto Islands will fill the islands’ natural spaces with thought-provoking sculpture and installations. ROGUE WAVE 2018 challenges artists to create pieces that respond to our changing relationships with water and land. Spread the word

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change

Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5oC approved by governments Limiting global warming to 1.5oC would require rapid, far- reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment. Spread the word