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A 40-foot shipping container in Clovelly Park, South Australia has been transformed into a prototype space for a new problem-solving hub, with Dulux products playing a significant role in enabling community collaboration.

With about one third of the sub-region’s population hosted by the coastal areas, the World Bank in a 2017 reportnoted that 56 per cent of West Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) is generated in the areas. However, these coastal areas that hold so much economic potential for some of the world’s developing economies are now very much troubled. Erosion, flooding, ocean surge and pollution are major causes of the dangerous degradation that is causing the sub-region both human and economic...

Scientists from Hokkaido University have used species survey and climate data to identify two marine biodiversity refugia in the Eastern Bering Sea -...

Researchers Use Archaeological Data to Improve Climate Models Written by AZoCleantechApr 15 2021 Climate modeling is future facing, its general intent to hypothesize what our planet might look like at some later date. Because the Earths vegetation influences climate, climate models frequently include vegetation reconstructions and are often validated by comparisons to the past. Yet such models tend to get oversimplified, glossing over or omitting how people affected the land and its cover. The ...

Increasing levels of economic activity over the past centuries have caused significant stress across the world's finite environmental resources and have resulted...

April 1, 2021 You are here: Home / World Economic Forum / Three experts on why eradicating plastic pollution will help achieve gender equality Three experts on why eradicating plastic pollution will help achieve gender equality (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kristin Hughes, Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva Wome...

‘What Moves People?’ Drives NREL Mobility Behavioral Scientist To Find Answers March 16, 2021 Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Patricia (Paty) Romero-Lankao arrived in Colorado in 2006 and found her way to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2018 to grow a new mobility behavioral science capability. “How people behave and make decisions are social science questions, not technical ones,” Romero-Lankao said. Understanding wh...

Dr. Joerg S. Hofstetter, an expert in the management of multinational multi-tier supply chains with over 15 years of experience, is associate professor in supply chain management at KEDGE Business School Bordeaux, president of the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), faculty member of Business School Lausanne, lecturer at the University of St. Gallen’s School of Management, and fellow of the Center for Organization Research & Design (CORD) at Arizona State University. He co...

Read Part One here and Part Two here. At the end of January 2021, in amongst the headlines on Covid-19 and the virulent new British strain that was set to hit the United States “like a hurricane,” the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed that riffed on a brand-new addition to the English lexicon: “collapseology”. It was heavy reading for the paper’s Sunday edition, particularly given the new dawn that was supposed to have been heralded by the inauguration of Joe Biden, but the facts ...

By David Poulson One of the delights of Michigan State University’s Fate of the Earth conference is the dinner for organizers and speakers the night before. I always angled to get a seat next to Barbara Sawyer-Koch, a former MSU trustee, who with her late husband Donald Koch, an MSU philosophy professor, endowed this annual conference on sustainability. It was their support that allowed MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism to help bring top-flight environmental journalists to sp...