The top 10 sustainability stories of 2012

greenbiz.com 24 Dec '12, 4pm

The top 10 sustainability stories of 2012

Last year I summarized the Top Sustainability Stories of 2011 and offered my predictions for the Top Sustainability Stories of 2012 . Here are my reflections on some of those predictions—I think I was pretty close—and a few big stories I missed. Climate heats up and hides out   . Climate denial is well-funded, anti-scientific, self-interested, crazy…and understandable, given the massive assets buried in fossil fuel reserves, and the lengths to which their owners will go to prevent those assets from being stranded. Climate silence is, well…in a way more troubling, more dangerous and harder to understand. President Obama shied away the subject during the campaign—perhaps a political calculation that ultimately served him well—and broached the phrase once elected. But the bleeping NYT? Ultimately Superstorm Sandy proved more potent than any political logic…and it’s only a que...

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