Sentences with phrase «updated environmental challenges»
But old nuclear plants have to be retired and replaced at some point, simply due to age, economics, and updated environmental challenges.
http://www.californiadrought.org/ Not exact matches
Updated, 1:47 p.m. A richly variegated four - day climate change conference, concluding yesterday in Paris, provided a sobering look at the mix of environmental, social and technological trends that have created humanity's planet - size challenge — fitting seemingly infinite aspirations safely in a climate system that is showing signs of disruptive human - driven change.
5:11 p.m. Updated * Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish writer who has built a career around challenging worst - case depictions of global warming and other environmental problems, has sent short video responses to the six most - recommended reader questions from my post about «Cool It,» the documentary on his work.
Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2013) Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2012) World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2011) Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2009) Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2008) Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2006) Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2005) Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2003) The Earth Policy Reader (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2002) with Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz - Roberts Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2001) Plan B Updates:
The report, «Taking on Big Challenges,» details the progress of Ecomagination (first covered here, with subsequent updates about cheap hydrogen production and nuclear power), GE's commitment to imagine and build innovative technologies that help customers address their environmental and financial needs and help GE grow, and it appears to be a success on all fronts.