The pandemic has taught us that daily commutes for millions of office bound workers is completely unnecessary. We have also seen what less traffic has done to the air quality in cities around the...
Near term leadership goals
In the very near future we are going to need an all society approach to reverse the pictured trajectory. Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide This is the most important challenge of our time and the...
We can slash in-person carbon footprints
If it wasn't for the pandemic we may have taken much longer to have access to this data. In this research, a whole of host of issues are looked at with regards to in-person conferences (IPC's) and...
Most are unaware of what it’s going to take
Most of us don't have a clue what it's going to take. I certainly didn't! This piece from Jason Hickel has helped me round out my understanding of the enormous task that lies before us if we are to...
COP26 Glasgow
Today is the start of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. This event will likely be the most important of our lifetime as we have don’t have the luxury of time to put us on a different emission...
Why ending the daily commute will have a major emissions impact
In our race to dramatically reduce emissions we need to analyze every emission source and ask: “Can we dramatically reduce or eliminate this emission source?” From the data, Electricity & Heat...
Let’s end the daily commute!
If you have been following our posts here for any length of time you would have seen us talk about the rapidly rising need to decouple your business from fossil fuel touch points. It’s a mammoth...
Weather, climate and water in 50-year disaster data
The recent World Meteorological Organizations (WMO) Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes shows that of the 22 326 disasters recorded worldwide from 1970 to...
We are at a critical juncture
The science is very clear - the climate disaster is here (See this excellent piece of journalism using the current available science to inform on what happens next The climate disaster is here —...
Why we need to keep remote working in place
The pandemic has made one thing abundantly clear — almost all of the estimated one billion global knowledge workers can get their work done from anywhere and does not require their presence in an...
Lessons from New York
Before we get to that what you are looking at here are road closures in the New York and Newark area caused by a severe weather event causing flash flooding in the wake of tropical storm Ida. The...
The future we must now navigate
Yesterday the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) which comes 8 years after the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which was...