Baton Rouge, Louisiana experienced historic flooding in August of this year, with the region receiving between 19 and 31 inches of rainfall. Six weeks later, Congress appropriated $500 million in flood aid for Louisiana. Yet Louisiana’s Governor reported that he expected…
A Familiar Face
National Geographic’s Emmy Award-winning series on Climate Change, “Years of Living Dangerously“, is now in its second season. The second episode was taped in Miami where, notwithstanding the impacts of rising sea levels, real estate developers have $20 billion of…
Uber Pitch Accelerates Business Growth
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is once again finding an extraordinary way to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week. {Prisere LLC was selected for the GEW 50, the 50 most innovative start-ups in 2011, the year of our founding, by a panel…
Climate Capitalism
Weekends afford the time to catch up on important reading and this weekend it was Climate Capitalism, a business title that did what few business books do: it addressed the needs of small businesses. (True, you can read about small business…
WSJ Site Features Video of NASA’s Climate Work
The website of the Wall Street Journal features a compelling short video about Operation IceBridge, NASA’s eighth annual airborne assessment of how Antarctic ice is responding to a changing climate. NASA scientists have concluded that the West Antarctic ice sheet…