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The relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level

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From www.terradaily.com - January 4, 1:30 AM
Southampton UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2013 - By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenh...
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Infographic: Companies unprepared to address resource scarcities

Infographic: Companies unprepared to address resource scarcities | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
From www.greenbiz.com - December 24, 2012 1:53 PM

New research shows that many businesses around the world won’t start planning until 2018. Is this too late?

Despite widespread warnings of resource scarcity over the next few decades, a significant proportion of global businesses are not prepared to address the predicted shortfall, according to new research by Carbon Trust.
The U.K.-based organization’s survey of 475 executives in the U.S., Brazil, China, Korea and the U.K. revealed while a majority acknowledged that their companies would have to charge more for their products and services as a result of resource constraints, 43 percent are not monitoring risks posed by incidents such as energy price increases and environmental disasters. Over 50 percent have not developed goals to reduce their company’s consumption of water, waste production or carbon emissions...

View the Carbon Trust infographic for more details on the survey.


Via Lauren Moss, Susan Davis Cushing
Duane Craig's curator insight, December 20, 2012 11:19 AM

And, the construction sector is woefully unprepared...
Jim Gramata's curator insight, December 21, 2012 10:37 PM

The earth is bounded and its resources finite. Hopefully it will be a proactive and not reactive decision to do what is critical to the sustainability of the earth. Spread the word....
Mercor's curator insight, January 31, 9:50 AM

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Megatrends: Future Paradigms for Business

Megatrends: Future Paradigms for Business | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
From fiveliteracies.typepad.com - August 24, 2012 5:39 PM

Against the broad sweep of human history on this planet the last few hundred years has given rise to astonishing innovations resulting in prosperity for a large proportion of the human family and the accumulation of massive wealth by a small minority.

But as we begin to internalise and comprehend the real costs associated with this remarkable and unprecedented phase of exponential growth and development, there is increasing evidence that a fundamental course correction is needed (at least in the means of production and the rates of consumption) if continued affluence is to remain a viable goal.


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