NPR Does ‘Sustainability’ Help The Environment Or Just Agriculture’s Public Image?NPRBrent Deppe is taking me on a tour of the farm supply business, called Key Cooperative, that he helps to manage in Grinnell, Iowa. We step though the back door of one warehouse, and our view of the sky is blocked by a gigantic round…

CNN A bad work environment could lead to poor health – CNN – CNN.comCNNTwo new studies give insight into how a negative work environment can affect your personal life and health. and more »

Washington Post Is Trump making the political environment for top civil servants worse?Washington PostA recently released Office of Personnel Management survey shows that work environment issues are “the highest contributing factors” in the decision of federal senior executives to leave government. At the top of that list is the political environment …

The environment can become a noninvasive therapeutic approach to bolster white matter healthScience Daily“The strength, duration and timing of environmental experience influences plasticity in brain circuitry, which is made up of communication cables called axons that link neurons throughout the brain and are coated by myelin, a fatty substance that helps … and more »

The Guardian Spectacular rebirth of Belize’s coral reefs threatened by tourism and developmentThe GuardianAccording to Nadia Bood, the World Wildlife Fund’s reef scientist in Belize, too many tourism projects are approved contrary to environmental regulations. “We’ve got some good laws, which aren’t implemented, and some very outdated ones, where fines for …

Livemint 3rd Business Climate Summit to be held in New Delhi on 31 Aug and 1 SeptLivemintMumbai: The third Business Climate Summit (BCS) will be held in New Delhi on 31 August and 1 September, with the focus on spatial planning, climate finance and the role of carbon markets. The first two summits were held…

Sonoma County Climate Change Activists SummitBay Area IndymediaOn July 31st, Occupy Sonoma County hosted a gathering of local climate change activists at the Peace & Justice Center along with 350Sonoma. The purpose of this summit was to introduce ourselves and our various climate change campaigns to one another … and more »

Green business summit aims to spur national investmentvtdigger.orgChester solar farm The “Catalysts of the Climate Economy” summit Sept. 6-8 at the University of Vermont aims to encourage innovation such as the town of Chester’s solar farm. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Paul Costello doesn’t want to talk about the …

The Guardian An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power review – another climate change lesson from Al GoreThe GuardianThere’s a sliver of against-the-clock narrative at the 2015 Paris climate summit, although the film simplifies matters in suggesting that India’s coming on board was the result of Gore making a few well-placed phone calls behind the scenes.…

Ministers, CEOs to brainstorm at Business and Climate SummitIndia.comNew Delhi, Aug 16 (PTI) Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Suresh Prabhu and Dharmendra Pradhan along with CEOs from top global firms and key policymakers will deliberate upon the impact of current business actions on climate change at a summit here later …