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The axiom “if it bleeds, it leads” lures clicks, but it can also result in discouraging and polarizing coverage. People are hungry for stories about the ways individuals and communities are solving problems.
Business
What will it take for major corporations to take climate risks seriously, making sustainability reporting a routine part of financial filings? The G20's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a global push by investors and companies to include information about these exposures in mainstream reports to regulators, is helping companies make that transition on a five-year implementation timeline.
The Rockefeller Foundation, along with two financial partners, is launching a new challenge to fund so-called green infrastructure and resilience efforts in the United States. This comes at a portentous time, given the devastating flooding in Houston and President Donald Trump's rollback earlier this month of an Obama-era order requiring resilient building standards for infrastructure projects in areas exposed to floods or rising sea levels.
The first corporate-issued sustainability bond was spun from the question Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz usually poses at the coffee company's investor meetings: "What's the role and responsibility of a for-profit, publicly traded company?" It's an unusual question in an investor universe that's laser-focused on short-term financial performance and shareholder returns.
Climate change storytelling is undergoing a major transition, gaining the attention of politicians, countries and corporations around the world. However, with climate deniers newly emboldened and the upcoming Trump administration threatening to turn back environmental progress, will climate change keep capturing our imagination?
Michael Ford, nicknamed the "hip-hop architect," has devoted his career to studying the history of how urban planning gave birth to hip-hop - and evangelizing how hip-hop's spirit of resilience and ingenuity will help develop thriving, equitable cities.
A new wave of environmentally focused retirement funds aims to advance corporate sustainability goals while enabling employees to save for their own financial future. At its member meeting in Phoenix next week, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) plans to set an aspirational goal to move 1 percent of $1 trillion ($10 billion) in retirement assets under management of its member companies to environmental, social and governance-themed retirement benefit accounts by 2020.
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, is known as an antidote to mass-made home furnishings, clothing and gifts. The quirky company experienced major-league growth after it went public in 2016, posting nearly $82 million in revenue in its first quarter with a 19 percent jump in stock price.
There's a tech war happening out there and it's between the East and West coasts. Silicon Valley is the tech capital of the world, serving as headquarters for tech giants such as Apple, Google and Facebook. However, in recent years, New York's resources have proven crucial to the entrepreneurial spirit.
Deciding when to move on from an employer can be oh-so-complicated. Here's what you need to know before jumping ship.
Brand Content
It is now an uncontested fact that technology is pervasive throughout our lives. But how often do we assess its presence in our relationships, recognizing how, exactly, it has impacted the way we interact with those closest to us?
As we all know, the climate is warming. In fact, it's doing so about 10 times faster than it ever has in the past 65 million years, and it's easy to point fingers when looking for the perpetrators. The good news is that we're developing adaptive, inventive ways to mitigate climate change.
In America, traditional schooling has frequently drawn inspiration from the trusty "three Rs": writing, reading and arithmetic. But as the technology sector continues to boom, educators have realized that this trifecta is no longer the end-all, be-all recipe for their students' success.
Do you remember the summer you spent working as a lifeguard, or the semester you were a barista during college? Can you draw a parallel between that sunburned kid and the career person you are now? That inner youth is still in there, shaping every decision you make.
News Reporting
Climate Week New York came to a close with autumn descending upon the city along with pumpkin-spice lattes (including at Starbucks, which just pledged to commit to 100 percent renewable energy ). What did the week's events bode for the future as businesses and governments strive to reach climate goals set during last year's United Nations' COP21 climate talks?
The holidays began and ended with the bang of newsworthy cyber breaches that illustrated the complexity of hacking scenarios, which vary in their intent and fallout on targeted companies and their customers, who are viewed as the victims. Beginning on Black Friday in December and lasting until Dec.
3D printing has allowed the fantasy world to break into the reality of everyday life. By downloading or creating a model on special software and directing it to the printer, users can bring any object from virtual to tangible desktop within days.
New York City may have been caught off guard by Superstorm Sandy, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg has responded by proposing an ambitious, multi-decade plan that would put an estimated $20 billion toward protecting the city against disastrous weather events going forward.
Two men approached Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum in the dark of night on October 16, 2012, bypassed the deactivated security system and silently opened the emergency door. Within two minutes, seven works by the world's best-respected artists were lost forever.
Photo by Unforth The marshes of Jamaica Bay have been shrinking for decades, essentially vanishing into New York's toxic waters. The largest urban wildlife preserve in the United States sits adjacent to Kennedy Airport, near the high-rise apartments of Starrett City and the Rockaway housing projects....
It will soon be the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, one of the worst storms to hit the Northeast. Sandy caused 280 deaths and was the third-costliest insured U.S. storm after Hurricanes Andrew ($25.6 billion) and Katrina ($48.7 billion).
Art and Music
Feminist matchmaker Amy Van Doran is sprinkling fresh air on the jaded, app-happy business of romance with the opening of the Modern Love Club, a "store that sells nothing", both an office for her matchmaking service and The Love Museum (hosting its first gallery show, "Girls I Love") for anybody who wants to play.
Maria Kreyn is a Russian-born painter, traveler, and freethinker who has been named as one of the greatest modern figurative artists. This year, she broke free from the restrictions of the art world and the two-dimensional medium of paper to bring The Chapel of Dancing Shadows , an immersive structure and sound bath, to Black Rock City.
Gratitude Migration: Summer Dream, the second annual outdoor festival organized by Gratitude*NYC, brought the elemental mix of camping, cleanliness, world-class music, art, and radical self-expression of the Burning Man Playa to the sands of the beach and put an original twist on the outdoor festival experience.
By Saida Mouradova. . 747 Big Imagination Foundation is not only about bringing a 747 Boeing, possibly the biggest moving art project this world, to Burning Man, it's about dreaming big. It's about building on the foundation of a concept that big ideas generate big ripples!
According to the Book of Genesis, there once lived a 600-year-young patriarch named Noah who saved the world's animals - including humans - from a titanic flood on a boat handmade from gopher wood.
(Photography By Anya Kozyreva) Astronautalis: A Drifter's Confirmation By Anya Khalamayzer November 28th 2012 Astronautalis sings a lot about men of destiny, both historical figures and ones of mythical origin - although in posterity they become one and the same, who have shaped our own destinies as people, even history, with the ideas they have come to represent.
on July 25th, 2013 at 7:00 AM A is for Alpine, the eponymous debut album from the sky-minded Aussie band Alpine , is a breeze by which to melt through summer. A slush of breathy vocals and easy, airy synths that build on simple meters into clear bubbling pop hooks, A is for Alpine is like The XX 's tan and optimistic surfer cousin.
Album Reviews Reviews Jay Arner Jay Arner Mint Records Background: Prom night at a Malibu art school Dance routine: The hand dance in Napoleon Dynamite Sometimes sad, [...] Features Interviews New Music A is for Alpine, the eponymous debut album from the sky-minded Aussie band Alpine, is a breeze by which to melt through summer.
How a high school teacher from Massachusetts revolutionized the world of string instruments.
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