Green Business Solutions

Articles on climate change

• Community Earth System Model for Climate Change Assessments Community Earth System Model used by decision makers in diverse Climate Change Assessment arenas need to know the extent to which the climate events they see are the product of natural variability, and hence can be expected to reverse at some point.
  
• Bill Gates Innovates Ideas about Energy and Climate How do we get to zero? What innovation is needed?
  
• SEC Sets Glimate Change Reporting for Public Companies The SEC’s action should prompt more companies to collect, analyze and report on climate change information.
  
• Learning Climate Change Risk Avoidance from SEC Guidance Green business thrives on coping effectively with climate change. We have a huge economy to re-engineer in greener, cleaner methods, and climate change reporting provides information to shape better strategies.
  
• Sustainable Community and Cultural Leveling at the Root of Climate Change - with William Stewart Understanding our roots grows the plant and fruition of our communities. How sustainable can we make our communities in the face of climate change, population growth, health care, water shortages...and more.
  
• Americans Face Climate Change with Clean Energy and Carbon Reduction Strategies Carbon pollution and clean energy top the concerns of Americans in a December 2009 survey.
  
• Governor Schwarzenegger from Copenhagen Air drying clothes, buying cleaner cars and appliances, car pooling, conserving water... going green is also about seizing an incredible opportunity. Let's continue to work together for a clean and sustainable future!
  
• Find the Carbon In Your Value Chain To Compete The cost of doing business will shift dramatically and fast as the world puts a price on carbon.
  
• IDEO designs Living Climate Change ideas Design is close to my heart. It is about asking questions, and never being satisfied with the imperfection of the status quo.
  
• The national security impacts of climate change, security and energy - Vice Admiral McGinn A climate action plan is needed to address the connections of energy, security and climate changes that are already affecting global stability. The time is now.
  
• Plan B 4.0 Facing Global Food Shortages That Threaten Civilization Solutions. We're facing unprecedented population growth at the same time we're facing food shortages. How do we solve this global problem?
  
• City Climate Change Case Studies Case studies are some of the most effective ways to "tell the story" of practical solutions. These case studies for climate change might help your organization learn what works, and what creative resources are available
  
• Greenhouse Gas Reporting System/Monitoring to begin in 2010 On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will, for the first time, require large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas (GHG) data under a new reporting system.
  
• YEAH! Both oil and coal use have fallen sharply in the US! U.S. carbon emissions peaked in 2007 and have dropped by 9 percent in two years.
  
• California's Future...Big Problems...Big Solutions I really prefer to report positive solutions. I do. But the flip side is that no solutions are needed if there aren't problems. Right?
  
• Warmest Oceans Ever -- via El Nino and GHG Trends, Indicators and Warnings are key to early crisis management. Ocean temperatures are giving us those climate change decision making tipping points.
  
• Climate Economics and the Green Economy Planning requires facts. Facts require analysis. Analysis today...requires models. And the EPA helps companies and communities analyze the climate data that is being gathered. Here are the key climate analysis modeling tools.
  
• We need to go far, quickly. Al Gore 2009 Update Climate change is happening very rapidly...now.
  
• Green Buildings and Climate Change - Free Half Day Seminar, March 17, Downey CA Learn strategies and approaches to minimize GHG producting during the lifecycle of buildings. Free half day seminar.
  
• Climate Change Solutions Start with Science and then, Risk Management Long term planning for sustainability gets a little more serious when we look at long term risk factors and how they will affect our major population centers. Long term, yes, but the solutions are rooted in our shared value system.
  
• European Updates on Green Strategies Exporting goods and services to Europe can be a problem if you don't know their environmental requirements -- which are often stronger than US regulations. Here's an update
  
• Women, Climate Change & Human Security Women are already facing consequences of climate change. Severe weather events are creating droughts, floods and dangers to food and water supplies for families cared for by women -- women's work around the world.
  
• US Forestry Service Video on Climate Change The U.S. Forest Service presents the climate change challenge and opportunities with forests.
  
• Climate Change Update: Sensitivity to changes in carbon dioxide The debate is pretty much over about whether our burning massive stores of fossil fuels are affecting the carbon in our atmosphere, and affecting climate change. But how much?
  
• Saving the World is HARD! Urban planning is changing, getting more complicated...and compliance is coming.
  
• California Heat Waves Rising and Costing More in Health Care More intense, more frequent and longer duration heat waves are projected for California in the coming decades due to global warming.
  
• Sustainable Development Best Practices for Community Sustainability Development Best Practices for Community, Office Center and Housing Sustainability
  
• Dry Thunderstorms Causing Forest Fires in West - and California Dry lightning and dry thunderstorms cause the majority of wildfires in the Western US. Understanding and working with desert ecosystems are high risk management strategies.
  
• California Climate Action Network (CCAN) Address the causes and consequences of climate change at the local level to implement climate action best practices in operations and communities
  
• NOAA: Climate Change Already Wreaking Havoc in 2008 According to NOAA, many types of extreme weather and climate event changes have been observed during this time period and continued changes are projected for this century.