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Climate, COVID-19 and the economics of decarbonizing buildings April 9, 2020
Facilities managers and staff are scrambling to adjust buildings for vacancy indefinitely. As we look toward recovery, there will be wide-ranging impacts on the fundamental systems that enable learning, work and commerce.
Utilities are the new cool April 9, 2020
Thriving in the age of climate change pivots around electricity, and that means electric utilities are at the center.
In semi-arid Africa, farmers are transforming the 'underground forest' into life-giving trees April 9, 2020
Revitalization of a traditional agricultural practice known as farmer managed natural regeneration is bringing new life to millions of acres of degraded land while boosting food, fuel, habitat and carbon storage.