NASA: “It is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010″ – Must-read draft paper: “We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade” and “that there has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C/decade that began in the late 1970s.”
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a draft paper “Current GISS Global Surface Temperature Analysis.” It is a must read for warming junkies, but, as James Hansen notes in an e-mail, “it is too long for popular use.” So Hansen offers “some of the main conclusions,” as well as a description of [...]
Tandberg’s FlyFree program
Air travel especially for business is an environment-killing, time-wasting, productivity-draining pain in the literal backside. If high costs, cramped seats, nonexistent food service that forces one to also juggle the grease-drenched so-called sustenance caked into landfill-bloating clamshell packaging, plus de facto strip searches, and weather and runway delays weren’t enough then there’s always labor disruptions.
And in anticipation of the latter, on British Airways (BA), Tandberg has wisely capitalized the opportunity to market its videoconferencing and telepresence solutions by offering TANDBERG FlyFree, a program that gives companies an easy and risk-free way of experiencing the power of high-definition video conferencing and telepresence.
By adopting Tandberg’s technology, it says employees “can still make critical meetings, avoid unnecessary business travel and benefit from a better work-life balance by working around personal schedules. In turn, the technology can deliver serious business advantages and consistent return on investment, regardless of the BA strikes, as well as help companies make great CO2, time and cost savings.”
“Businesses cannot afford to be slowed down by the impact of international travel disruption, especially at this time when continuity is so critical to success,” says Simon Egan, Vice President, Western Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa, Tandberg. “By accepting our FlyFree offer, businesses can still make important face-to-face meetings while maintaining productivity among employees. Our standards based solutions enable our customers to communicate with their partners, clients and suppliers so its business as usual even when working conditions are disrupted.”
Tandberg is onto something here. It should have similar offers with the green pitches launched in key seasons when North American air travel reliability goes into the toilet, like July-August and December-February and in specific markets like Atlanta, Chicago and New York/New Jersey. It should also buy billboard and monitor space in waiting lounges at LAX, Logan, Kennedy, O’Hare and in Canada, Pearson, to name a few, with images of relaxed business people in a meeting room or better yet on a home office desktop conference application with the catchline: ‘Wouldn’t You Rather Be Here?” The firm should also buy outside advertising on the Harbor Freeway, I-93, the Van Wyck, I-94 and the 401 respectively with the same message.
If more people went ‘fly free’ we could also breathe a little easier, and in more ways than one.
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Nominations Now Open for 2010 Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence
Points of Light Institute is now welcoming nominations for the 2010 Corporate Engagement Awards of Excellence. These CEAE awards honor U.S. companies that have committed to and built strong, effective employee volunteer programs that meet the Principles of Excellence for Workplace volunteering.
A key part of the mission of Points of Light Institute is to encourage business leaders to create a company culture that inspires and enables employees to volunteer in the communities where they live and work. In the last decade, we have seen a dramatic increase in the commitment that companies are making to local communities. There is growing recognition that citizen engagement is essential to building strong communities, and business leaders understand that what is good for the community is good for their companies and employees.
The Principles of Excellence for Workplace Volunteering are to:
- Acknowledge that the workplace’s employee volunteer efforts contribute to the achievement of the company’s business goals;
- Commit to establish, support and promote an employee volunteer program that encourages the involvement of every employee and to treat it as any core business function;
- Target workplace volunteering towards serious social problems in the community.
Nominees are judged based on adherence to these principles, which are the benchmarks for the CEAE program. Last year’s winners included Capital One Financial Corporation, Deloitte LLP, Eli Lilly and Company, Pinnacol Assurance, and Salesforce.com.
Nominations must be submitted by April 9th, 2010. For more information on the award and the nomination form, please visit www.pointsoflight.org/recognition/corpaward, or contact Melanie Stevenson at mstevenson@pointsoflight.org, 404-574-5378.
The 2010 CEAE Award winners will be announced in early May. The awards will be presented to the honored companies during the annual National Conference on Volunteering and Service, the largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the non-profit, government and corporate sectors. That conference will take place in New York City in late June. Award recipients will also be showcased throughout the year by Points of Light Institute.
Points of Light Institute inspires, equips and mobilizes people to take action that changes the world. The Institute has a global focus to redefine volunteerism and civic engagement for the 21st century, putting people at the center of community problem-solving. We are organized to innovate, incubate and activate new ideas that help people act upon their power to make a difference. Points of Light Institute operates three dynamic business units that share our mission: HandsOn Network, MissionFish and the Civic Incubator.
Scientists: “There are multiple, consistent lines of evidence from ground-based studies published in the peer-reviewed literature that Amazon forests are, indeed, very susceptible to drought stress.” – Major amplifying carbon-cycle feedback is not a “myth”
Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation.
This statement [...]
20 environmental and climate groups applaud progress on Senate climate and clean energy jobs bill, will work to shape details
The details of the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill are starting to leak out (see here).
Twenty environmental, climate and progressive groups — including the one I work for — have issued a statement “in reaction to a late Thursday meeting with Senator John Kerry”:
“We are encouraged by the progress being made by Senators John [...]
20 environmental and climate groups applaud progress on Senate climate and clean energy jobs bill, will work to shape details
The details of the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill are starting to leak out (see here).
Twenty environmental, climate and progressive groups — including the one I work for — have issued a statement “in reaction to a late Thursday meeting with Senator John Kerry”:
“We are encouraged by the progress being made by Senators John [...]
Best of the Web – March 19 2010
James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 19 March 2010 at 16:21:00
From climate change contrarians to the “KitKatastrophe” of Nestle’s palm oil policy, we look at the best the green web has to offer this week
Is there a more dangerous critic of the low carbon economy than Bjorn Lomborg? The self-styled Sceptical Environmentalist was at it again this week in a piece for The Australian,…
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Best of the Web – March 19 2010
James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 19 March 2010 at 16:21:00
From climate change contrarians to the “KitKatastrophe” of Nestle’s palm oil policy, we look at the best the green web has to offer this week
Is there a more dangerous critic of the low carbon economy than Bjorn Lomborg? The self-styled Sceptical Environmentalist was at it again this week in a piece for The Australian,…
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Another open thread. OT comments from the Amazon drying thread have been moved over. As usual, substantive comments only please and no abuse.
Roundup: Solar Market, Weyerhauser, Carlyle Group
Waste industry hunts energy rewards, risks abound
Reuters
Renewable Energy Markets Expand By 11.4% In 2009
North American Windpower
Indonesia to review forest carbon laws
Reuters
Weyerhauser Joins Enviro-Industry Climate Coalition
NY Times
EPA Launches Web Forum on How to Best Protect America’s Waters
Environmental News Bits
Carlyle Group and Environmental Defense Fund Launch EcoValuScreen
Carlyle
Worldwide Solar Photovoltaic Market Reaches Record High of [...]
