Nicholas Poggioli
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A personal account commenting on sustainability, business, and higher ed.
Joined May 2015
Wetlands and grasslands get little attention, compared to forest destruction. We have "deforestation," but no equivalent for destroying other types of ecosystems.
Wetlands are disappearing faster than any other ecosystem. Countries are meeting this week in Zimbabwe to find solutions. The U.S. isn’t one of them. https://t.co/gE12zHe9UI
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Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.7 ppm year-on-year for June 2025.
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New guidance on absolute environmental sustainability. Critically important in the transition from relative to absolute approaches. https://t.co/I5NV01Q18o
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment (AESA) involves comparing the environmental burdens of individual activities to planetary boundaries and other environmental carrying capacities to...
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Atmospheric CO2 *up* 3.61 ppm year-on-year for May 2025. https://t.co/O83Or7urtQ
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Never forget. 80 years ago this month, Bergen Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops.
bbc.com
180 British Jews joined groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
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The paper: Fischer-Kreer, D., Greven, A., Desel, L., & Brettel, M. (2025). Measuring regenerative orientation: A new scale for firms’ net-positive impact beyond sustainability. European Management Journal, S0263237325000660.
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New paper identifies 12 questions to determine if a company has a "regenerative orientation" toward social and ecological systems.
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"Teaching is not a matter of pouring the answers in, but rather leading, enticing, or aggravating the student to discover the truth for themself." "A Socratic theme in the dialogues is that we must arrive at the truth for ourselves if we are to arrive at all."
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“ Their only crime? Participating in a peaceful pro-Palestinian protest off-campus in New Orleans, criticizing the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil.”
Punishing students for their off-campus political associations violates Tulane’s commitments to student expression. FIRE is calling on the school to drop all charges against the students for exercising their rights to free speech and association.
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More evidence that gen AI improves average to below-average workers but reduces overall diversity of output. Evolutionarily, reducing group diversity (here, the novelty of fiction) leaves society less creative and more vulnerable to disruption and stagnation.
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Carola Rackete is using her position as a lawmaker to amplify the voices of grassroots communities and the interests of the natural world. And, she's bringing nature - Antartica to be specific - into Parliament. https://t.co/WHCyrLu3yU
insideclimatenews.org
Carola Rackete has used her position as a member of the European Parliament to amplify the voices of grassroots communities and the interests of the natural world.
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Software engineer responses to how generative AI has changed their jobs (left) and problems with the use of AI in their profession (right). tl;dr gen AI saves time but is often wrong and leaves people without skills.
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EV batteries could be major grid resources — IF utilities, EV makers and customers can get costs and complexities ironed out. Massachusetts' new vehicle-to-everything (V2G) pilot is giving free chargers to homes, schools and businesses to start that work: https://t.co/mFwmdHkDk8
canarymedia.com
A first-of-its-kind “vehicle-to-everything” pilot is giving out 100 free chargers to test how EVs can earn money for sending backup power to the grid.
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In 2024, in anticipation of the EU deforestation-free supply chains regulation, agribusiness firm ADM offered to pay US soybean farmers an extra $0.20 per bushel to become deforestation-free certified. https://t.co/uNxdraNTPT
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All Senators and Representatives from the US State of Arkansas ask the European Commission to reduce the impact of the EU deforestation-free supply chains regulation on the US forest products industry. https://t.co/WwQgqGOkaL
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