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Paul Beaufait

Lord Nicholas Stern: The state of the climate - and what we might do about it | Talk Vi... - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 31 Oct 14
     
    "Economist Nicholas Stern lays out a plan, presented to the UN's Climate Summit in 2014, showing how the world's countries can work together on climate" (deck, ¶1, 2014.10.31).
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IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 0 views

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    "The IPCC was created to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation options" (2019.11.21).
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Climate Action Tracker [Home] - 0 views

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    "The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).
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Your food choices affect Earth's climate | Science News for Students - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 28 May 20
     
    "Eating meat can have twice the 'carbon footprint' of consuming fruits, veggies and grains" (Raloff, deck, 2014.07.11).
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Sea Surface Temperature | Climate Change | US EPA - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 14 Mar 16
     
    This page dated 2015 provided graphs and data on sea surface temperature changes since 1880.
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EST: Emerging issues - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 01 Jun 17
     
    At present (2017.06.01), this page covers three emerging issues: 1) Price volatility, 2) Investments, and 3) Climate change.
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NOAA's Ten Signs of a Warming World - 1 views

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    "This set of indicators was selected [from the 2009 State of the Climate report], as we would unambiguously expect them to increase or decrease if the world were warming" (About the Data, para. 2, 2020.01.15).
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Sunscreen: "Worse than Climate Change" - PARLEY - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 09 Jan 19
     
    "Most sunscreens contain non-biodegradable ingredients and harmful chemicals. Some of the worst are oxybenzone, octinoxate and triclosan" (Step 1: Read Labels, ¶1).
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Social sciences miss out on climate change research funding | Times Higher Education (THE) - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 20 Jan 20
     
    Digest of "a paper published recently in the journal Energy Research & Social Science" (¶3).
Paul Beaufait

INTERVIEW: Peter Senge on Education, Systems Thinking and Our Careers - 0 views

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  • We live in a world of increasingly complex and intractable problems. These are especially evident in the environmental and social domains. They range from climate change and destruction of ecosystems, to scarcity of water and other critical natural resources, and to the disproportionate effects these growing scarcities are having on the poor of the world
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      Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
       
      In this book..., ¶1
  • We have deep intractable social issues, such as youth unemployment around the world and the growing gap between rich and poor. All these ultimately are economic in the same sense that all social and environmental issues ultimately show up in our economic system. No one is very happy with the ability of their economies to establish pathways of sustainable progress
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      Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
       
      In this book..., ¶2
  • Without reflection, people tend to just assume their point of view is the right point of view and defend and argue from that point of view. Reflection is a key gateway that opens people to beginning to think together and move from just arguing for about who is right to collaboratively solving the problems we all face
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      Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
       
      For professionals..., ¶3 learning systems thinking: reflection
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  • In terms of people’s careers and opportunities both as employees and entrepreneurs, I believe the combined foundation of social, emotional, and systemic intelligence will be pivotal
  • businesses know very well that the skill sets they need today and in the future are very different than those in the past
  • they will need students who can think for themselves, work in teams, work with cross-cultural boundaries, and especially work together to solve complex ill-defined problems
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14
     
    Author interview by Sharlyn Lauby (2014.08/10) sharing "rationale ... [for] incorporating focus-related skill sets into education" (¶2).
Paul Beaufait

geyrhalterfilm - NGF - Population Boom - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 05 Nov 15
     
    Glaser, M., Kitzberger, M., Widerhofer, W. & Geyrhalter, N. (Producers), and Boote, Werner (Director). (2013). Population Boom [Documentary film]. Austria: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion.
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