Fri, Jan 22 2021

In the 2016 Royal College of Physicians' (RCP's) report, Every breath we take, we estimated that around 40,000 premature deaths and 20,200 hospital admissions could be attributed to air pollution every year in the UK. The State of global air 2020…

Bill Pugsley Prescribing clean air! What can we do to reduce the threat of air pollution to health?

If greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, land temperatures will rise so substantially that large areas of Earth will become inhabitable. That's according to new research by an international team of scientists, published May 26, 2020, in the…

Bill Pugsley without emission reductions – a 7.5 deg C rise in mean temperatures can be expected by 2070. The global temperature (land plus water vs. only land) will only rise a bit a more than 3 deg C by this time because water does not warm as much as land.

More snow is counterintuitively also an indication of climate change. It may seem counterintuitive, but more snowfall during winter storms is an expected outcome of climate change. That's because a warmer planet is evaporating more water into the…

Bill Pugsley Between 1970 and 2017, winter in the mainland U.S. warmed more than four-and-a-half times faster per decade than over the past 100 years.

Systems thinking can help us grasp the interconnectedness of our world. During the uncertainty of the pandemic, it can spur innovation. We are currently living through VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) times. As innovators, general…

Bill Pugsley what about banking patterns? More customer service has moved online, digital banks and fintech developments have decreased the urgency for face-to-face business in branches. Are there trends in customer behaviours?