By MIRIAM ACZEL For most homeowners, it’s in their best interest to take the time to reassess their energy usage at home. If you’re finding your energy bill to be pricier than usual, or you’re simply worried about your home’s impact on the environment, it could be time to consider an investment in sustainable energy....
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Tips and Tricks for Clean Green Business Operations
By MIRIAM ACZEL The power of collective environmental action should not be a surprise when it comes to promoting the transition to a cleaner, greener planet. There are many simple changes you can make to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle. But how can businesses, particularly those first starting out, embrace the same techniques to reduce their carbon...
Amazon’s Spheres: Embracing Biophilia and Inspiration from Nature
By MIRIAM ACZEL This past week I was in Seattle, Washington, for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2020 Annual Meeting. It was my first visit to Washington’s capital, and I was delighted to discover how green—and easily walkable—the city is. On my last day, I toured Amazon’s Spheres—three spherical nature conservatories...
Southeast Asia’s Crucial Mekong River is Drying Up
By MIRIAM ACZEL For many years, experts have been warning of an ‘environmental crisis along the nearly 3000 mile-long waterway, which spans six Asian countries—Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, China and Myanmar. Experts have long expressed concern that the Mekong River could not survive the dam building, overfishing, and sand mining operations forever. However, the Mekong...
Sustainable Development Goals: A Reading List (Part 2)
By MIRIAM ACZEL A few months ago, I published a piece on the Leaders in Energy blog sharing a few of my favorite books related to the first 7 of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focuses on three key ‘pillars’ of sustainability–social, economic and environmental—in addition to important...
Australia’s Wildfires: Climate Change and How We Can Help
By MIRIAM ACZEL Apocalyptic Wildfires As ‘apocalyptic wildfires’ continue to burn across the Australian Continent, the extent of loss of life is hard to comprehend. Ecologists at the University of Sydney now estimate that over half a billion animals have been killed since the fires first began several months ago, and there is grave concern that entire species have...
Puebla’s Urban Air Pollution Solution
By DEBRA ACZEL and MIRIAM ACZEL Puebla and The City of Ideas This past November, we had the honor of attending the 12th edition of the Ciudad de las Ideas—“City of Ideas”—the International Festival of Brilliant Minds held each year in Puebla, Mexico. This year’s festival, organized around the theme of “Epic Ideas,” was held November 8-10. The...
Ocean Microplastics are Multiplying
By MIRIAM ACZEL Plastic — Not Fantastic Plastic is the most common type of marine debris found in our planet’s ocean and lakes. Plastic debris can come in a wide range shapes and sizes, but debris that are less than five millimeters in length (roughly the size of a sesame seed) are classed as “microplastics.” Microplastics...
Let Leadership Bloom: French Non-Profit’s Environmental Success
By MIRIAM ACZEL Founded in 2005 by environmental activist Claire Nouvian, BLOOM is a French non-profit organization “that works to preserve the marine environment and species from unnecessary destruction and to increase social benefits in the fishing sector.” They have set as one of their current missions the education about and campaigning for a ban on electric pulse...