Sustainability Week Insight Hour: Home is where the heat is: greening homes on the path to net zero
Moderator and producer of an insight hour (panel) on greening homes in the UK
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One recent summer morning I went walking in the woods. As the light shining through the leaves warmed my face, something seemed off. It took me a moment to realise the strangeness I felt was the deafening sound of silence. No birdsong, no rustle of woodland creatures. Just silence. My heart broke a little that day. For what’s happening to our home. For what many people in power are letting happen.
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The blue economy—from shipping to blue foods to valuable materials and everything in between—has an annual value of roughly US$2.5trn. If the ocean were a country, it would be the world’s eighth-largest economy.
In reality, the value of a healthy ocean and a sustainable blue economy is far greater. When you consider how many billions of people depend on the ocean for food and employment, how many millions of tourists travel to coastal towns to get away, and how many trillions of dollars will ne
In reality, the value of a healthy ocean and a sustainable blue economy is far greater. When you consider how many billions of people depend on the ocean for food and employment, how many millions of tourists travel to coastal towns to get away, and how many trillions of dollars will ne
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“[Scientists estimate] that natural ecosystems can store
“[Scientists estimate] that natural ecosystems can store
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Sustainability Week Insight Hour: Home is where the heat is: greening homes on the path to net zero
Moderator and producer of an insight hour (panel) on regenerative farming
Sustainability Week Insight Hour: Home is where the heat is: greening homes on the path to net zero
Moderator and producer of an insight hour (panel) on greening homes in the UK
A conversation on climate hope with AI
One recent summer morning I went walking in the woods. As the light shining through the leaves warmed my face, something seemed off. It took me a moment to realise the strangeness I felt was the deafening sound of silence. No birdsong, no rustle of woodland creatures. Just silence. My heart broke a little that day. For what’s happening to our home. For what many people in power are letting happen.
Turning the tide on the blue economy
Take a deep breath. Then another. You have breathed in the result of an interplay of plankton and marine plants photosynthesising beneath the waves since ancient times. More than half of the oxygen we breathe – every other inhale – was produced this way.
Sustainability Week Insight Hour: Future farming: can regenerative agriculture cut climate pollution and feed the world?
Moderator and producer - Insight Hour (panel) on regenerative agriculture
eBay’s CEO on the regulatory fate of recommerce in the EU
POLITICO Studio interviews Jamie Iannone, CEO of eBay, about how evolving EU policies around circularity could end up stifling sustainability and small resale businesses.
REPORT: Ocean health is planetary health | World Ocean Initiative
The blue economy—from shipping to blue foods to valuable materials and everything in between—has an annual value of roughly US$2.5trn. If the ocean were a country, it would be the world’s eighth-largest economy.
In reality, the value of a healthy ocean and a sustainable blue economy is far greater. When you consider how many billions of people depend on the ocean for food and employment, how many millions of tourists travel to coastal towns to get away, and how many trillions of dollars will ne
In reality, the value of a healthy ocean and a sustainable blue economy is far greater. When you consider how many billions of people depend on the ocean for food and employment, how many millions of tourists travel to coastal towns to get away, and how many trillions of dollars will ne