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Nicholas Poggioli

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Sustainability, business, higher ed. This is a personal account and does not reflect the views of my employer.

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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/09/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.49 ppm year-on-year for August 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 11/08/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.32 ppm year-on-year for July 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 29/07/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.7 ppm year-on-year for June 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 21/07/2025
Highly recommend this short book based on a lecture series Sen delivered in the mid-1980s. www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-ethics-...
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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...
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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/07/2025
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...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/06/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 3.61 ppm year-on-year for May 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 06/05/2025
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...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 27/04/2025
Never forget. 80 years ago this month, Bergen Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
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.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 02/04/2025
Update: there are deer.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 26/03/2025
UK company trying to match green hydrogen buyers and sellers. www.network-hy.com
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 19/03/2025
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...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
Coverage of some winners and losers from biodiesel. www.hcn.org/issues/57-3/...
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A renewable diesel plant may put the Columbia River at risk  - High Country News
Farmers, tribes and environmental advocates in rural Oregon raise alarms about the empty promises of biofuels.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
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
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,
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 16/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 14/03/2025
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.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 14/03/2025
Mauna Loa curve is back up at NOAA. Atmospheric CO2 *up* 2.54 ppm in 12 months from February 2024 to February 2025. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 12/03/2025
First yard flowers of the year
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/03/2025
We almost killed off the bald eagle, but conservation efforts led to a robust recovery of the species. defenders.org/blog/2023/01...
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Saving the Bald Eagle – a Conservation Success Story
The bald eagle has not only been the national symbol of the United States for more than 240 years, but it is also a symbol of how the Endangered Species Act can save wildlife from extinction.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/03/2025
Moving from linear to circular value chains often requires changing consumer behavior. "The utility will also work to educate residents and businesses in El Paso to discourage them from putting chemicals and pharmaceuticals down the drain." insideclimatenews.org/news/0303202...
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El Paso Is Going to Turn Wastewater Into Drinking Water. Other Cities Will Soon Follow - Inside Climate News
El Paso Water broke ground on the first U.S. facility that will treat wastewater for direct re-use in a city water supply, using a four-step process to transform wastewater into clean, potable drinkin...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 08/03/2025
Who will pay for new data center power supply? A state bill would allow "companies to put a charge to build a new generation plant on customer bills before it is producing power." missouriindependent.com/2025/03/07/m...
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Massive utility legislation expected to boost Missouri power generation — and energy bills • Missouri Independent
A bill on a ast track would hike Missouri utility rates, critics say, by allowing customers to be charged for power plants as they are built.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 07/03/2025
Tulips coming up.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 03/03/2025
US proposing a carbon tariff based on the idea that China's coal-based manufacturing would be hurt more than US gas-based manufacturing. Would be good news, though ironic, if the US got a carbon fee this way. www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Cassidy, Graham Release Discussion Draft on Trade, Manufacturing Policy to Hold China Accountable | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy
Senators Collecting Feedback on Revised Foreign Pollution Fee Act Through January 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a new discussion draft of...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 02/03/2025
Persistent, quiet advocacy and choosing language to find common ground. trellis.net/article/ebay...
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How eBay, Nestle and Michelin depoliticize climate policy work
Quiet advocacy, creative framing and collective action are keys to progress during the Trump administration.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 22/02/2025
Oil and gas companies, airlines, and others are lobbying Trump to keep Biden's hydrogen subsidies. www.wsj.com/articles/fos...
wsj.com
Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Lobbying Trump to Save a Green-Fuel Program
Oil-and-gas companies are pushing the new administration to keep hydrogen tax credits, despite the president’s ambition to destroy Biden-era climate incentives.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 21/02/2025
Polyester recycling update. www.wired.com/story/reju-p...
wired.com
The World Is in a Polyester Crisis. One Company Is Trying to Recycle a Way Out
The European company Reju may have developed the polyester recycling technology the textile industry needs. The question is whether the world is ready for it.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 19/02/2025
"at the time the Clean Air Act of 1970 was passed to regulate lead and other airborne pollutants in the U.S., American children had about 15 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood and an associated 7-point drop in IQ." www.wsj.com/science/envi...
wsj.com
Ancient Rome Was So Polluted With Lead That IQs Dropped
Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s downfall.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 17/02/2025
Useful for teaching international business. Widening regulatory and cultural divisions between the US and EU markets present new challenges for businesses that operate in both markets. poetsandquants.com/2025/02/14/w...
poetsandquants.com
What European B-School Deans Think Of Trump’s Attacks On ESG & DEI
While European businesses double down on ESG and DEI, the U.S. just re-elected Donald Trump as president.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 13/02/2025
Great article for demonstrating voluntary commitments, collective action, supply chain, and emissions scopes. www.eco-business.com/opinion/fast...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 12/02/2025
Solving one sustainability challenge can worsen another. mailchi.mp/caa/global-w...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 07/02/2025
“I had a 17-year-old who was dying of an advanced liver cancer,” Dr. Snider said. “She wanted to see whales before she died, and we were able to do it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...
nytimes.com
3 Lessons for Living Well, From the Dying
Hospice workers share their insights.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 07/02/2025
How college students justify cheating: -Too much to do, run out of time. -Feel like you’re drowning. Don’t understand assignment. -Don’t know what to do. -Don't think assignment is valuable. -Don’t feel like professor cares. -Helping out a struggling friend. www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...
chronicle.com
The Cheating Vibe Shift
With ChatGPT and other AI tools, cheating in college feels easier than ever — and students are telling professors that it’s no big deal.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 05/02/2025
Michael Burawoy killed by a hit and run SUV driver. RIP.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 04/02/2025
"Negotiating online conspiracy theories is a challenge companies like Arla increasingly have to prepare for."
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A Milk Brand Wanted to Tout Its Sustainability Push. Then It Got Swept Up in a Conspiracy Theory.
Companies want to promote their green credentials, but doing so can sometimes come at an unexpected cost.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 01/02/2025
Kering Group's mapping of sustainability challenges onto value chain stages.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 27/01/2025
US government funding is dependent on oil and gas in many ways, including state funding from taxing gasoline sales. Higher EV registration fees are "an example of how governments are struggling to adjust to technological upheaval in the auto industry." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/b...
nytimes.com
E.V. Owners Don’t Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees.
States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 22/01/2025
Students believe they are much more proficient in these area than do the employers that are recruiting them: critical thinking, leadership, professionalism, communication.
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The Gap in Perceptions of New Grads’ Competency Proficiency and Resources to Shrink It
There is a clear and persistent disconnect between how students and employers perceive students’ development of the competencies they need to be career ready as they enter the workforce.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 21/01/2025
Useful for teaching strategy. "Exxon and Chevron have shied away from the wind and solar business for good reason: They have no experience in it and the expected returns are too low. But gas-fired power seems like a natural fit."
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Oil Majors Flirt With Electricity
As power generators such as Vistra soar, oil-and-gas giants are dipping their toes into a business where they have some natural advantages.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 15/01/2025
"Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web... at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history..." The movie Contact, 1997
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 14/01/2025
Useful for teaching markets as a solution to sustainable business challenges. An overview of Microsoft's 2024 activity to support the development of a carbon dioxide removal market.
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CDR.fyi Insight - Microsoft
CDR.fyi is the reporting platform for the durable carbon removal market.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 07/01/2025
The sustainable innovation question is ALWAYS: will it scale up to the size of the problem? "Major food brands are betting on sustainable agriculture. Will it scale?"
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KIND's regenerative almond-growing project in California | Trellis
KIND's regenerative almond-growing pilot in California offers lessons for sustainable agriculture two years in.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 06/01/2025
Atmospheric CO2 *up* 3.54 ppm in 12 months between December 2023 and December 2024. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 04/01/2025
Good for teaching international business. cen.acs.org/business/con...
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 03/01/2025
Great article showing how scientists start with a puzzling phenomenon, create a bunch of theories that could explain it, and then start testing those theories to see which hold up and which don't.
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The Mystery of What’s Causing Young People’s Cancer Leads to the Gut
Doctors are investigating bacteria and contaminants such as microplastics connected to cancer.
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 30/12/2024
Great for teaching how buyer power affects value chains. "How a $12.98 T-Shirt Is Made in America—at a Profit" buff.ly/3DNKrrC
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 26/12/2024
"I've always been a little bit obsessed with ecosystems, their beauty & complexity. I get pretty fired up when people talk about the economy because ecosystems are much more complex yet somehow we've organized ourselves around economic systems." -Celia Lee of @sustainableyyc.bsky.social
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 26/12/2024
"The pattern of LLMs primarily affecting more educated workers may be temporary: Researchers are already exploring how LLMs can reshape robotics in ways that will ultimately affect blue-collar work as well." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Could Savannah be the Next San Jose? The Downstream Effects of Large Language Models
The anticipated production shock created by large language models (LLMs) may significantly alter the geographic structure of U.S. labor demand. We use establish
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Nicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 26/12/2024
Are Americans overeducated? From the jacket of a book published in 1976. www.abebooks.com/978012267250...
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