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WMSB: How Business Can Positively Impact Community Sustainability, Public Safety Through Collaboration

GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will meet onMarch 14 at The Rapid Central Station for a program that examines how business can positively impact community sustainability, public safety and employee wellness through voluntary practices and stakeholder collaboration. This month’s program will highlight three approaches, including a WMSBF partnership with Roosevelt Park Neighborhood

By |2022-03-06T16:12:53-05:00March 6th, 2022|Clean Update|
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UN Climate Report Paints Terrifying Picture Of Global Warming Now And In The Future

NEW YORK - The United Nations’s climate science panel issued a report on Monday detailing both the impacts of climate change and potential adaptation measures society can take to mitigate the damage. The report warned of dire impacts from global warming that will only get worse, from heat waves to food and water disruptions to

By |2022-02-28T18:47:31-05:00February 28th, 2022|Climate Change, Science|
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Study: Carbon Footprint Gap Between Rich And Poor Expanding

LONDON, England - Wealthy people have disproportionately large carbon footprints and the percentage of the world’s emissions they are responsible for is growing, a study has found. In 2010, the most affluent 10 percent of households emitted 34 percent of global CO2, while the 50 percent of the global population in lower income brackets accounted

By |2022-02-08T17:17:36-05:00February 8th, 2022|Clean Update, Clean, green, hybrid, Climate Change|
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Report: Last Seven Years Hottest On Record

LONDON, England – The European climate agency Copernicus reported that the last seven years were the world’s hottest on record, with the first analysis of global temperature rise in 2021 about 2 degrees F above pre-industrial levels. The assessment of the year also found carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached record levels and that the

By |2022-01-11T09:52:01-05:00January 10th, 2022|Clean Update, Climate Change, Featured|
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Ice Shelf Holding Back Antarctic Glacier That Could Raise Sea Level By 10 Feet Could Fail Soon

ANN ARBOR - An alarming crackup has begun at the foot of Antarctica’s vulnerable Thwaites Glacier, whose meltwater is already responsible for about 4 percent  of global sea level rise. An ice sheet the size of Florida, Thwaites ends its slide into the ocean as a floating ledge of ice 45 kilometers wide. But now,

By |2021-12-15T19:55:40-05:00December 15th, 2021|Clean Update, Climate Change|
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Michigan Could Be Climate Oasis By 2050, Climate Experts Contend

DETROIT - A globalization expert says that Michigan, of all places in the world, could be the place to be in 2050, per Michigan Radio. Singapore-based geopolitics and globalization expert Parag Khanna, along with his colleague Greg Lindsay believe that Michigan could be a "climate oasis" as we face an inevitable global migrational shift. "Even though, of

By |2021-12-05T17:25:26-05:00December 5th, 2021|Climate Change, Science|
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Intense Storms From Global Warming – A Mission To Study Them

DETROIT - As global warming has progressed, you might have noticed more weird weather, including more intense storms. It appears certain now that climate change does affect localized tropical storms and thunderstorms. Scientists want to know exactly how that’s happening. And they want to know how these storms in turn affect their climate models. So, in November 2021, NASA announced it had selected a new

By |2021-12-02T12:24:07-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Climate Change, Featured, Science|
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Young Climate Activists Ask Former President Obama At COP26 To Show Them The Money

GLASGOW, Scotland - The red carpet was rolled out for former US President Barack Obama on Monday at COP26. Obama arrived at the UN climate summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, and delivered a speech about "what young people in particular can do to help." But youth climate activists, many of whom have been at the summit for

By |2021-11-09T16:07:13-05:00November 9th, 2021|Clean Update, Climate Change|
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Special Briefing on Climate Change, Federal Aid, and State and Local Strategies

WASHINGTON DC - The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research will host a Special Briefing on climate change, federal aid, and state and local strategies Nov. 11 at 11 am Eastern. Panelists include Tim Coffin, director of sustainability, Breckinridge Capital Advisors in Boston; Nora Wittstruck, director and ESG lead for US public finance,

By |2021-11-08T10:41:17-05:00November 8th, 2021|Climate Change, Science|
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Study: World Should Shut Nearly 3,000 Coal Plants To Keep On Climate Track

SHANGHAI, China - The world will need to shut down nearly 3,000 coal-fired power plants before 2030 if it is to have a chance of keeping temperature rises within 1.5 Celsius, according to research by climate think tank TransitionZero. In a report published days before the U.N. COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, TransitionZero said there are

By |2021-10-31T09:06:34-04:00October 31st, 2021|Clean Update, Climate Change, Guest Columns|
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