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Discover your inner green.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Discover your inner green
I make no apologies for the green hue of this issue. As someone who grew up in the country and now spends every free moment mountain biking, I know at first hand the damage caused by climate change. The IWR team gets to meet plenty of business leaders; some do excellent impressions of ostriches, but many are at the forefront of doing something constructive about climate change.
Ignoring climate change will do for your organisation what ignoring the internet would have done for it a decade ago. You pretend business is as usual at your peril.
As organisations change their operating behaviour to become less abusive of natural resources, information professionals will have to carry out intensive research into policy, technology, business practices, case studies and management direction. It's early days and there is little information available yet. What information does exist is divided across partisan lines, both the partisan climate change deniers, and the many competing scientific theories ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Discover your inner green.