Nicholas Poggioli
@nicholaspoggioli.com
Sustainability, business, higher ed
September 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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“We need more students to speak up and share their opinions,” says Abigail Lee, a student at UC Irvine.
PEN America interviewed undergraduate students across the country to hear more their perspectives on free expression in higher education. More here: pen.org/college-stud....
PEN America interviewed undergraduate students across the country to hear more their perspectives on free expression in higher education. More here: pen.org/college-stud....
August 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Excellent read to understand how scientists parse claims and compare them to evidence.
An in-depth review of the Trump administration’s “critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate” finds more than 100 false or misleading claims. By @carbonbrief.org…
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
By Ayesha Tandon, Leo Hickman, Cecilia Keating and Robert McSweeney
buff.ly
August 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Excellent read to understand how scientists parse claims and compare them to evidence.
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
July 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This should be everywhere.
Bought a renewed PC mouse and it came from France (I think). It had a small slip of paper in the box with a URL for a product end-of-life advice website.
quefairedemesdechets.ademe.fr
Bought a renewed PC mouse and it came from France (I think). It had a small slip of paper in the box with a URL for a product end-of-life advice website.
quefairedemesdechets.ademe.fr
July 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This should be everywhere.
Bought a renewed PC mouse and it came from France (I think). It had a small slip of paper in the box with a URL for a product end-of-life advice website.
quefairedemesdechets.ademe.fr
Bought a renewed PC mouse and it came from France (I think). It had a small slip of paper in the box with a URL for a product end-of-life advice website.
quefairedemesdechets.ademe.fr
Highly recommend this short book based on a lecture series Sen delivered in the mid-1980s. www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-ethics-...
On Ethics and Economics book by Amartya Sen
Buy a cheap copy of On Ethics and Economics book by Amartya Sen. In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and th...
www.thriftbooks.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Highly recommend this short book based on a lecture series Sen delivered in the mid-1980s. www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-ethics-...
US hotel occupancy showing signs of slowdown. "On a year-to-date basis, the only worse years for occupancy over the last 25 years were pandemic or recession years."
www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/07/hote...
www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/07/hote...
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 3.2% Year-over-year
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 12 July The U.S. hotel industry reported negative year-over-year comparisons, according to CoS...
www.calculatedriskblog.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
US hotel occupancy showing signs of slowdown. "On a year-to-date basis, the only worse years for occupancy over the last 25 years were pandemic or recession years."
www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/07/hote...
www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/07/hote...
This is a good channel for environmental and social sustainability issues at the global level.
www.youtube.com/@pbsterra
www.youtube.com/@pbsterra
PBS Terra
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July 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is a good channel for environmental and social sustainability issues at the global level.
www.youtube.com/@pbsterra
www.youtube.com/@pbsterra
Reposted by Nicholas Poggioli
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!
Moo Deng, the celebrity pygmy hippopotamus, celebrated her first birthday at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand on Thursday.
Read about Thailand’s most famous creature in this February dispatch: https://trib.al/XoUUafe
Read about Thailand’s most famous creature in this February dispatch: https://trib.al/XoUUafe
Moo Deng, the Toddler Hippopotamus, Is Still a Star
The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?
trib.al
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!
Inspiring dose of sustainable business realism here, with its recognition that some decarb practices are ROI-positive and some are ROI-negative.
www.bain.com/insights/dec...
www.bain.com/insights/dec...
July 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Inspiring dose of sustainable business realism here, with its recognition that some decarb practices are ROI-positive and some are ROI-negative.
www.bain.com/insights/dec...
www.bain.com/insights/dec...
June 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Changes to Canada's business competition law have caused some companies to reverse sustainability commitments due to a lack of an internationally recognized methodology.
competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...
competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...
May 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Changes to Canada's business competition law have caused some companies to reverse sustainability commitments due to a lack of an internationally recognized methodology.
competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...
competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fo...
Never forget. 80 years ago this month, Bergen Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bergen Belsen: Eighty years on, survivors and families remember camp's horrors
180 British Jews join groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
www.bbc.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Never forget. 80 years ago this month, Bergen Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Nicholas Poggioli
Good for @historians.org for redoing this important survey, last completed a decade ago. If you're contingent faculty, please consider filling it out.
The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️
AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA
Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...
www.historians.org
April 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Good for @historians.org for redoing this important survey, last completed a decade ago. If you're contingent faculty, please consider filling it out.
Update: there are deer.
April 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Update: there are deer.
March 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Worth watching how The Fire’s campus free speech ratings handle Columbia’s submission.
You know what's extra wild? All these silly rankings will still be like, Columbia is such a great place to get an education! Ignore their willingness to sacrifice students, faculty, and staff to authoritarianism!
March 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Worth watching how The Fire’s campus free speech ratings handle Columbia’s submission.
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. admadvantage.com/adm-resource...
March 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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. admadvantage.com/adm-resource...
Republican State Senator argues South Carolina needs more investment in renewables, w/focus on nuclear.
Initial investment is substantial, but long-term benefits undeniable: stable, low-cost energy w/o fossils price volatility; zero emissions."
www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...
Initial investment is substantial, but long-term benefits undeniable: stable, low-cost energy w/o fossils price volatility; zero emissions."
www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...
Commentary: Balance of nuclear, renewables, economic growth are key to SC future
SC must keep investing in all of the above energy strategy of natural gas, wind, solar, but nuclear remains cornerstone of sustainable, affordable energy future
www.postandcourier.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Republican State Senator argues South Carolina needs more investment in renewables, w/focus on nuclear.
Initial investment is substantial, but long-term benefits undeniable: stable, low-cost energy w/o fossils price volatility; zero emissions."
www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...
Initial investment is substantial, but long-term benefits undeniable: stable, low-cost energy w/o fossils price volatility; zero emissions."
www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...
US military funding research on using solar power to produce hydrogen fuel from air.
Part of military's efforts to reduce dependence on liquid fossil fuels, the movement of which creates logistical risks for forward operating bases and other activities.
lailluminator.com/2025/02/25/n...
Part of military's efforts to reduce dependence on liquid fossil fuels, the movement of which creates logistical risks for forward operating bases and other activities.
lailluminator.com/2025/02/25/n...
Louisiana company building machines to extract hydrogen power from the air • Louisiana Illuminator
A Louisiana company won a National Sciences Foundation prize for developing the world’s first mobile atmospheric hydrogen generator.
lailluminator.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
US military funding research on using solar power to produce hydrogen fuel from air.
Part of military's efforts to reduce dependence on liquid fossil fuels, the movement of which creates logistical risks for forward operating bases and other activities.
lailluminator.com/2025/02/25/n...
Part of military's efforts to reduce dependence on liquid fossil fuels, the movement of which creates logistical risks for forward operating bases and other activities.
lailluminator.com/2025/02/25/n...
The bill would make it illegal for banks and credit unions to consider greenhouse gas emissions, use of fossil-fuel derived fertilizer, or use of fossil-fuel powered machinery in lending decisions.
ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-...
ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-...
Bill targeting ESG for farmers advances to next NC House committee • NC Newsline
A North Carolina House committee voted Wednesday to approve legislation targeting socially responsible lending in agriculture,
ncnewsline.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The bill would make it illegal for banks and credit unions to consider greenhouse gas emissions, use of fossil-fuel derived fertilizer, or use of fossil-fuel powered machinery in lending decisions.
ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-...
ncnewsline.com/briefs/bill-...
Duke Energy had already said it would fail to meet the carbon emissions reduction milestone on the way to a 2050 goal of carbon neutrality.
ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-bil...
ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-bil...
A bill erasing an intermediate clean energy goal in NC speeds through the state Senate • NC Newsline
NC Senate approves a bill giving Duke Energy a break on in meeting its carbon reduction goals. Republicans said it will help customers.
ncnewsline.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Duke Energy had already said it would fail to meet the carbon emissions reduction milestone on the way to a 2050 goal of carbon neutrality.
ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-bil...
ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-bil...
RIP Edward Leamer.
These two papers shaped my approach to empirical work.
My PhD training occurred when my field was "discovering" what Leamer said 30 years earlier in the 1983 paper.
Leamer's 2010 paper was prescient: methods didn't improve, but people learned the magic words to say.
These two papers shaped my approach to empirical work.
My PhD training occurred when my field was "discovering" what Leamer said 30 years earlier in the 1983 paper.
Leamer's 2010 paper was prescient: methods didn't improve, but people learned the magic words to say.
March 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
RIP Edward Leamer.
These two papers shaped my approach to empirical work.
My PhD training occurred when my field was "discovering" what Leamer said 30 years earlier in the 1983 paper.
Leamer's 2010 paper was prescient: methods didn't improve, but people learned the magic words to say.
These two papers shaped my approach to empirical work.
My PhD training occurred when my field was "discovering" what Leamer said 30 years earlier in the 1983 paper.
Leamer's 2010 paper was prescient: methods didn't improve, but people learned the magic words to say.