Author: greenele

  • Free Green Career Webinars 2024

    📢 Following are some upcoming free webinars to help with learning and networking on your green job search. Collated byJoseph Gelfer, PhDFounderEcotopian Careers If you need help on your green job search, check out my online course How to Make a Mid-Career Transition to a Green Job and career coaching service. 🛑 Carbon 🚀 Careers…

  • Climate Change, Inequality, and the Potential for Societal Collapse

    Unravelling the Threads: Climate Change and its Societal Implications For too long, climate change has been viewed solely as an environmental issue. Yet, the deeper we delve into its repercussions, the clearer it becomes that it is also a profound societal challenge, weaving together threads of inequality, economic disparity, and potential societal upheaval. The Underlying…

  • Greenwashing UK

    Here are 20 examples of greenwashing allegations or controversies from the UK up to January 2022. Please note that some of these examples might be contested or debated. Let me know if you have updates: Please note that these examples are based on claims and controversies and the perspectives can be subjective. Always ensure to…

  • Sustainability Reporting

    Sustainability Reporting: The Forefront of Climate-driven Business Challenges The evolving narrative of climate change is catapulting sustainability reporting to the zenith of business priorities. Regulatory bodies across the globe are meticulously crafting and instituting a fresh suite of reporting standards that encompasses businesses, irrespective of their magnitude. The inception of compulsory sustainability disclosures is on…

  • Routes to sustainability

  • FREE Sustainability courses

    FREE Sustainability courses from the United Nations. 🔗 Course Links: 1. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda: https://lnkd.in/eFsr2TwM 2. Integration of the SDGs into National Planning: https://lnkd.in/e6vuGHng 3. Green Marketing Challenge: https://lnkd.in/eWByut-N 4. Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs: https://lnkd.in/e3mBsuhQ 5. Integrated Approaches to Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support for the SDGs: https://lnkd.in/eENsUTdw 6. Digital4Sustainability…

  • Micro Greens

    Many people give a list of excuses why they can’t grow their own vegetables –they haven’t got green fingersthey haven’t got enough spacethey don’t know what to doit’s too expensivethey haven’t got the right kit But it’s easier than you think! If I can do it then you can do it. Get a plastic takeaway…

  • In 2030, You’ll Own Nothing And Be Happy About It

    In 2030, You’ll Own Nothing And Be Happy About It

    In 2030, You’ll Own Nothing And Be Happy About It We have to cut personal consumption of stuff because burning fossil fuel has caused the current climate change emergency.  The World Economic Forum leaders expect us to reduce personal ownership to zero.  Have these private jet flying billionaires got our best interests at heart? How…

  • Why is direct air capture of CO2 a dangerous distraction?

    Why is direct air capture of CO2 a dangerous distraction?

    BackgroundCurrent plans to reduce CO2 back to safe levels demand that we capture billions of tons of CO2 per year  as soon as possible. Many of these plans need technology that doesn’t exist yet and we hope will be invented. Hope is not a strategy.  Cost The range of costs for DAC vary between $250 and…

  • What can we learn from indigenous peoples?

    How do native populations survive 10 times longer than most civilisations? The age of oil will span about 100 years. Australian, North and South American peoples  have lived in harmony with nature for more than 10000 years. How did they do it? Indigenous forest gardens in the tropics and subtropics have been increasingly appreciated as…