Education in the Post Industrial Era
Yehuda Kahana speaks at the 3rd Intl. Conference on Future Education on Education in the Post Industrial Era.
Entries by The YK Center Team
Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
Originally Published in the Guardian Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot recover. The sharp rise – following year-on-year increases in May and June – confirms fears that president Jair Bolsonaro has […]
Business leaders identify ways to mobilize climate action and finance at scale
Published originally at UN Global Compact The UN Global Compact and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today convened 50 business leaders, investors and representatives of business organizations in a dialogue with Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, UN Special Envoy for the UN Climate Action Summit, on mobilizing climate action and finance at scale. The […]
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months
Originally published on the BBC by Matt McGrath Do you remember the good old days when we had “12 years to save the planet”? Now it seems, there’s a growing consensus that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global heating crisis, among other environmental challenges. Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel […]
Down in the Dumps: The Need for Rational IT Sustainability Policies
Originally Published in Sustainable Brands 25% of organisations that say they have a sustainable IT policy dump or destroy their obsolescent hardware — the least sustainable ways of handling them. Here’s a business case for better IT lifecycle management. In 3 Step IT’s recent international survey (results to be released soon), we found that 18 percent […]
The climate crisis and the end of the golden era of food choice
Published Originally in VOX Imagine waking up in a world that has become so hot and so crowded that most of what you eat has disappeared from the grocery store altogether. Or imagine eating only genetically engineered foods or a diet of exclusively liquid meal replacements. These are scenarios that Amanda Little, an environmental journalist […]
Arctic Is Warming Twice As Fast As World Average
Originally Published in NPR The latest word from scientists studying the Arctic is that the polar region is warming twice as fast as the average rise on the rest of the planet. And researchers say the trend isn’t letting up. That’s the latest from the 2014 Arctic Report Card — a compilation of recent research from more […]
Growth hacking with CROs for Impact and Ecological Businesses
Originally Published in the Green Prophet Paris is melting right now. So with the planet getting warmer from climate change, mass extinction of species and almost every city in the world wanting to ban plastic straws and bags and disposables, we can probably all agree that something super big needs to change. It hardly seems […]
New Online Library, Curriculum Aiming to Engage Students, Researchers on the SDGs
Originally published in Sustainable Brands The aim of this new venture from academic publishing giant Taylor & Francis is to enable students and tutors to deliver the change they want throughout their careers and lives. This week, Taylor & Francis — one of the world’s largest academic publishers — introduced its new Sustainable Development Goals Online platform. The site […]