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About the P.E.A. Awards

Now in its 15th year, the P.E.A. (People. Environment. Achievement.) Awards is the UK’s leading sustainability and climate awards, honouring the individuals and teams behind the products, services and businesses that are changing the face of our planet.

Jarvis Smith co-founder, and Michelle Narciso, OMMM co-founder, share their Good News.

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Previous winners include Juliet Davenport OBE, Cat Fletcher, Polly Higgins and many other amazing Earth ambassadors who are committed to revolutionising old models and systems.

Across sectors ranging from finance and energy to music and art, the P.E.A. Awards identifies and celebrates the green heroes who are taking matters into their own hands and providing inspiring alternatives to business as usual. These sustainability pioneers are recognised and rewarded at our glamorous green carpet event!

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Forty-four of the world’s leading climate scientists have called on Nordic policymakers to address the potentially imminent and “devastating” collapse of key Atlantic Ocean currents.

In an open letter published online Monday (Oct. 21), University of Pennsylvania climatologist Michael Mann and other eminent scientists say the risks of weakening ocean circulation in the Atlantic have been greatly underestimated and warrant urgent action.

The currents in question are those forming the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a giant ocean conveyor belt that includes the Gulf Stream and transports vital heat to the Northern Hemisphere. Research shows the AMOC is slowing down and could soon reach a tipping point due to global warming, throwing Earth’s climate into chaos.

“Such an ocean circulation change would have devastating and irreversible impacts especially for Nordic countries, but also for other parts of the world,” the scientists wrote in the letter. The Nordic countries include Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden.

An AMOC collapse would lead to major cooling and extreme weather in Nordic countries, according to the letter. This would enlarge and deepen a strange “cold blob” that has already developed over the eastern North Atlantic due to the slowdown of heat-carrying currents. Collapsing ocean currents are also likely to precipitate climate impacts across the Northern Hemisphere, threatening agriculture in Northwestern Europe , according to the letter.

A map of the ocean currents in the Atlantic. (Image credit: Peter Hermes Furian via Shutterstock)

Other regions would feel the effects, too, the scientists said. Should the AMOC grind to a halt, it would trigger a southward shift in tropical monsoon systems — with catastrophic consequences for agriculture and ecosystems. Halted ocean currents could also further heighten sea levels along the American Atlantic coast and send marine ecosystems and fisheries into a state of “upheaval.”

Without urgent climate action, the AMOC could collapse in the next few decades , although there is huge uncertainty in predicting the timescales, according to the letter. The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that “there is medium confidence that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will not collapse abruptly before 2100,” but the scientists say this is an underestimate.

The IPCC estimate is not only imprecise but also worrisome, according to the letter.

“The purpose of this letter is to draw attention to the fact that only ‘medium confidence’ in the AMOC not collapsing is not reassuring, and clearly leaves open the possibility of an AMOC collapse during this century,” the scientists wrote. “Even with a medium likelihood of occurrence, given that the outcome would be catastrophic and impacting the entire world for centuries to come, we believe more needs to be done to minimize this risk.”

The scientists addressed the letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers, an intergovernmental forum tasked with promoting cooperation among the Nordic countries. They urged policymakers to seriously consider the risks posed by an AMOC collapse and to increase pressure on international partners to stay close to the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to keep average global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels.

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ALBANY — New York’s population exodus continued to top national charts for a third consecutive year with a loss of more than 101,000 residents from the Empire State, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Texas and Florida continued to see the country’s highest population increases, adding more than 473,000 and 365,000 residents, respectively, followed by North Carolina and Georgia, which each added more than 100,000 residents during the one-year period.

Regionally, the South continues to lead the United States in population growth and has remained the most populous region, while the Northeast led the nation in decline and remains the least populous. Among states in the Northeast region, only New York and Pennsylvania saw declining populations this year.

The census report said that the country is returning to pre-pandemic levels, experiencing an increase of 1.6 million people and seeing more states with growing populations this year than since the start of the pandemic.

New York continues to be the fourth-most populous state, trailing California, Texas and Florida.

New York’s population exodus continues

More states gained than lost population during the 12-month period ending July 1. But New York logged the largest decline in the nation, losing more than 100,000 residents.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, who represents the North Country and parts of the Capital Region, blamed the decline on “the consequences of far left Democrat leadership.” Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference, said lawmakers in Albany have an “extremist agenda.”

“Far left Kathy Hochul and Albany Democrats have made New York so unlivable that our state leads the nation in population loss with more than 102,000 residents leaving in one year alone,” Stefanik said in a statement. “With record crime and cost of living far beyond the national average, New York’s mass exodus is far from over.”

The Empire State also has topped states in declining populations since the pandemic, losing more than 631,000 residents between April 2020 and July, representing 3.1 percent of the state’s population.

In the Capital Region, residents left in higher numbers than they came in between 2020 and 2021, except for Saratoga County, which added 2,000 residents.

During that same time period, the Hudson Valley gained residents, while New York City and nearby counties lost population.

The following year, Albany and New Rochelle were the only cities among New York’s 12 most populous that added residents. In the year ending July 1, 2022, Albany’s addition of 91 residents boosted the population to 100,826. New Rochelle’s growth was more robust, with an increase of 899 people to 82,288 during that period.

New York, which the census report estimated to have just over 20.2 million residents in April 2020, had fallen to less than 19.6 million residents in July.

The state’s public school population has also seen a steep, nation-leading decline since the pandemic, according to data collected by the Associated Press.

The state experienced a 6 percent decline in public school enrollment — a reduction of about 157,000 students — from the 2019-20 to 2022-23 school years, the largest percent decrease of any state that has reported the data. (Tennessee has not yet released recent enrollment figures.)

Every county in New York experienced an enrollment drop in that time period with the most pronounced decreases in New York City, as well as Greene, Schuyler, Ulster and Columbia counties, state data shows.

The number of students attending public school in the state is down 10 percent from a decade ago and is at its lowest level since the mid-1950s, according to Ken Girardin, director of research at the Empire Center, a non-profit think tank in Albany.

The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy released a report Thursday saying about 150,000 immigrants have arrived in New York between Oct. 1, 2022, and Aug. 1, including 30,000 children, a third of whom are under age 5.

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Listen to “Multitalented Award Winning Patrick Bergin shares his Good News…Lucky Us…Like a 4 Leaf Clover:^)” on Spreaker.

Patrick Connolly Bergin (born 4 February 1951)[2] is an Irish actor and singer perhaps best known for his leading role opposite Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) and for his stint playing the villainous Aidan Maguire in the BBC soap EastEnders from November 2017 until March 2018.

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Film.

FINDING YOU, Seamus – Red Sky Studios (director: Brian Baugh)
THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME, Rossi Dumois – Netflix (director: Olivier Megaton)
BLACKBIRD, The Head – Blackbird Film Productions Ltd (director: Michael Flatley)
TRAINSET, Julian – Solarus Films (director: Rob Burrows)
FREE FIRE, Howie – Rook Films (director: Ben Wheatley)
WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY, George Briggs – Evolution Pictures (director: Sacha Bennett)
AGE OF KILL, Sir Alistair Montcrief – Richwater Films (director: Neil Jones)
DANCE OF THE STEEL BARS, Frank – Portfolio Films (director: Cesar Apolinario)
THE WEE MAN, Arthur Thompson – Carnaby International (director: Ray Burdis)
DANCE OF THE STEEL BARS, Frank Parish – Marnie Manicad Prods (director: Stuart Cameron)
A KISS AND A PROMISE, Det Anthony Dolan – Lab4 Prods (director: Phillip Guzman)
ICE, Quinn – Pure Films (director: Nick Copus)
ELDORADO, Roy – Darren Moore (director: Richard Driscoll)
PROJECT FEAR, Captain Morrow – Unconditional Entertainment (director: John Milton Branton)
EVE, Oswald – Artis Films Romania (director: Adrian Popovici)
GALLOWWALKER, Mrshall – Gaza Gallowwalker Ltd (director: Andrew Goth)
ONE STEP BACK, Mr Big – 1-Step Prods (director: Barry O’Neill)
STRENGTH AND HONOUR, Papa Boss – Maron Pictures (director: Mark Mahon)
THE BLACK PIMPERNEL, Senator Davis – Moviefan Scandinavia (director: Ulf Hultberg)
PLAYED, Riley – Celebration Pictures (director: Sean Stanek)
JOHNNY WAS, Flynn – Was Productions (director: Mark Hammond)
GHOSTWOOD, Fr Paul – Maxim Pictures (director: Justin O’Brien)
SECRET OF THE CAVE, Roy’s Father – Shadowhawk Films (director: Zach Gray)
THE FAR SIDE OF JERICO, Jake – Further Prods (director: Tim Hunter)
ELLA ENCHANTED, Sir Peter – Miramax (director: Tommy O’Haver)
BLOOM, The Citizen – Odyssey Pictures (director: Sean Walsh)
THE BOYS AND GIRL FROM COUNTY CLARE, Padjo – Studio Hamburg (director: John Irvin)
BENEATH THE LOCK, Blay – Loch Ness Productions (director: Chuck Comisky)
DEVIL’S PREY, Seth – Triad Productions (director: Bradford May)
FALSE PROPHETS, Karl (director: Robert Townsend)
AMAZONS AND GLADIATORS, Crassius – Drotcroft (director: Zachary Weintrau)
VIKING BEZERKERS, Thorson – Peakviewing (director: Paul Matthews)
THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, Gene – Justine Pictures (director: Adam Brooks)
CAUSE OF DEATH, Taylor – Cinequest (director: Marc Grenier)
HIGH EXPLOSIVE, Jack Randall – GMT Landmine Films Inc (director: Tim Bond)
WHEN THE SKY FALLS, Mackie – Irish Screen (director: John Mackenzie)
AFRICA, John Young – Peakviewing (director: Paul Matthews)
MERLIN, Arthur – PeakViewing (director: Paul Matthews)
THE PRESS RUN, Alec – Allegro Films (director: Robbie Ditchburn)
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, Alex – Filmline International (director: Stephan Elliott)
PROMISE HER ANYTHING, Vernon Fry – Slingshot Prods (director: Alain Zaloum)
ESCAPE VELOCITY, Cal – North American Pictures Ltd (director: Lloyd Simandl)
TREASURE ISLAND, Billy Bones – Pirate Films Ltd (director: Peter Rowe)
ONE MAN’S HERO, General Winfield Scott – San Patricio Prods (director: Lance Hool)
SUSPICIOUS MINDS, Jack Ramsey – Slingshot Minds Films Inc (director: Alain Zaloum)
LAWNMOWER MAN III, Dr Angelo – New Line Entertainment (director: Farhad Mann)
DOUBLE CROSS, Jack Conealy – Interglobal (director: Michael Keusc)
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART, Walter – Working Title/Polygram (director: Vincent Ward)
PATRIOT GAMES, Kevin – Paramount Pics (director: Philip Noyce)
HIGHWAY TO HELL, Beezie – Hemdale Film Corp (director: Ate de Jong)
LOVE CRIMES, David – Sovereign Pictures (director: Lizzie Borden)
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY, Martin – 20th Century Fox (director: Joe Rubin)

Television

THE SOUTH WESTERLIES, Big Mike – Deadpan Pictures (director: Simon Gibney)
WILD BILL, Frank McGill – ITV (director: Annie Griffin)
QUANTICO, Liam Killoran – ABC & Disney (director: Russell Lee Fine)
EASTENDERS, Aidan Maguire (series regular) – BBC One (director: Various)
RED ROCK, Jim Walsh – TV3 (director: Various)
NO OFFENCE, Earl Kennedy – Channel 4 (director: Catherine Morshead)
ICE, Quinn – Power/Screentime (director: James Follett)
HUSTLE, Mr Baxter – Kudos) Dir. Julian Simpson
CASANOVA’S LOVE LETTER, Casanova – Solar Productions (director: Mark Murphy)
ICON, Igor Komarvov – Hallmark (director: Charles Martin Smith)
SMALLVILLE, Morgan Edge (guest lead) – Warner Bros TV
BRUSH WITH FATE, Headmaster – Hallmark (director: Brent Shields)
DRACULA, Dracula – Lux Vide (director: Roger Young)
KING OF TEXAS, Highsmith – Milk & Honey Prods (director: Uli Edel)
JEWEL, Leston Hilburn – CBS/Citadel/Alliance (director: Paul Shapiro)
THE RIPPER, Inspector Jim Hansen – Calamari Prods Ltd (director: Janet Meyers)
Stolen Woman, Captured Heart, Daniel Morgan (CBS/SHOWTIME) Dir. Jerry London
APOCALYPSE WATCH, Drew – ABC (director: Kevin Connor)
FRANKENSTEIN, Dr Victor Frankenstein – David Wickes Television (director: David Wickes)
ROBIN HOOD, Robin Hood – Working Title/20th Century Fox (director: John Irvin)
MORPHINE AND DOLLY MIXTURES, Terence O’Farrell – BBC (director: Karl Francis)

In 1993, Bergin bought an old church in Tipperary and converted it into a poetry centre. Bergin explained, “I’ve recently come to feel I can encourage children and teenagers with their writing.[6] I’m continually giving groups money to make videos, but I insist that they have a good script. I do it because it makes the difference between them doing a video or not. It doesn’t cost a lot, and it gives kids an incredible boost of confidence.”[6] In 1998, in response to the murder of a 14-year-old Tallaght boy, Ben Smyth, Bergin participated in setting up a special fund to sponsor young children from Tallaght.[4]

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Exactly a year to the date he learned he had tested positive for the then-new COVID-19, Eric Yaverbaum found out he contracted the disease again – this time the B.1.1.7 variant. In March 2020, when the pandemic was just beginning and we still weren’t sure what we were grappling with, Eric began what would be a grueling 90 day battle with Covid-19. Confined to a bed for the first month, and then dealing with long-haul symptoms, lung damage, and requiring an oxygen tank for another two months, Eric found himself running his company while fighting for his next breath. So when the unthinkable happened and he got COVID-19 a second time, Eric knew the fight he had ahead of him and resolved himself to once again, keep breathing and get his company through to the other side. Two weeks ago, he began stringent quarantine, informed his clients, updated and reassured his team, and hunkered down to face the disease that a year ago had knocked him down for three straight months.

“Everything is more intense this time around. All of the symptoms came back faster and harder than before, but I know I’m going to get through this,” said Yaverbaum.

He is still managing his agency from his bed, responding to emails, swapping zooms for calls, and continuing to write his next book, The Audacity of Silver Linings, inspired by the hope that got him through his first round of COVID-19 and his company through the darkest days of the pandemic (with the wish that he can share that hope with others).
Already an expert on leadership and crisis communications – and author of industry-standard Public Relations for Dummies and bestseller Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs – Eric learned a lot in real-time about leadership, managing a business through a crisis, and above all, the power of hope.
The disease has reinforced his belief that compassion and transparent and frequent communication are key aspects of crisis leadership. Being open about your own struggles and setbacks as a leader is vital when trying to stay connected in a world where we are actively reconfiguring how we connect and interact with each other.

New York Times bestselling author of seven books and CEO of Ericho Communications, Yaverbaum has been asked to speak on his experience leading a company while overcoming COVID-19 in Entrepreneur, PR Week, NY1, and more. Consistently, he cited hope as the only force willing him to feel better each day. Yaverbaum will be recounting his lifelong ability to look towards the bright side and his coronavirus recovery for his upcoming book The Audacity of Silver Linings, set to release in 2022.

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A leading mind in business growth for 30 years in Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalist, and Author Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D.

Aligning the Dots: The new paradigm to grow any business

Publisher: Onward Business Press Author Website: https://philippebouissou.com/

It’s eight o’clock Monday morning. What do you do to outpace the market and grow faster than your competitors? Aligning the Dots provides a clear answer to that deceptively simple question.

Although many how-to-grow business books have been published, none offer a pragmatic and reliable blueprint for top-line growth that is built on deep data analysis and a universal framework that leads to revealing insights. Without a clear roadmap to growth, a CEO’s demands for innovative product development, better marketing, and increased customer acquisition and conversion often fail to produce desired outcomes. An effective leader understands that without clear direction and guidance, teams will revert to business as usual and no amount of inspirational taglines will help the business grow faster.

Aligning the Dots introduces a new paradigm. It’s a universal, data-driven and prescriptive methodology, called A4 Precision Alignment, designed to accelerate any business. Based on the profound insight that the maximum top-line growth rate can only be achieved when a business and its target market are perfectly aligned, this methodology reveals how quantitative measurements of alignment form the base for the development a Growth Playbook.

That blueprint will guide any business to align the dots to outperform its target market and fly past its competitors.

In an interview on your program Dr. Philippe Bouissou can discuss:

1. There are 11,000 business books published every year. Why should we talk about your Book?

2. What results does this new paradigm to grow any business deliver?

3. Why did you choose to focus on the topic of growth?

4. What is unique about Aligning the Dots?

5. What are the traditional methods to grow a business?

6. Why do these traditional ways of growing a business rarely work?

7. What is counterintuitive about your new paradigm?

8. What is surprising about it?

9. How does it provoke new thoughts or bring “conventional wisdom” into question?

10. How did you come up with this new idea?

11. What in your background was critical to invent this new paradigm?

12. Does this new methodology apply to any business?

13. Can you give an example of a bad and a good alignment?

14. Who is the audience for this book?

15. How does the COVID19 pandemic affect the teachings in this system?

Aligning the Dots offers a new systematic methodology for optimizing resource allocation towards long-

term profitable growth. Philippe Bouissou’s engaging style uses a combination of personal anecdotes,

scientific analogies, and relevant case studies to convey his message of alignment. While the target

audience cuts across the broad business community, I find the methodology to be most directly relevant

to young technology startups who have a very low margin for error in their business model.

—Eric Benhamou Founder and General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures and Former Chairman and CEO of 3Com

Every executive intuitively knows the importance of aligning what a company sells with what its customers

want, but few executives actually know how to do it right. In his smart, new book—Aligning the Dots—

business growth expert Philippe Bouissou presents a simple, but powerful framework for building

alignment along four critical business axes. No matter what size your business or what industry you’re in,

Aligning the Dots is the playbook you need to spark revenue growth right now — and well into the future.

—Peter Economy The Leadership Guy, Inc. Magazine

Aligning the Dots offers a precise, logical way to understand how the fundamental drivers of business

work, and how to align your company with them for long-term success. It’s the rare book that combines a

comprehensive science of how business works with dozens of practical tips that any leader can apply.

—Chris Yeh Co-author with Reid Hoffman of Blitzscaling

I’ve seen so many businesses struggle as the vision and expectations of entrepreneurs and company operators

are out of sync with the customer or the marketplace. Aligning the Dots provides an articulate, pragmatic,

and innovative framework for solving these misalignments. It is a resource that can and should be

referenced repeatedly to help pressure test strategy and plans for the competitive edge that derives from precision alignment.

—Lori Bush Former President and CEO, Rodan + Fields

Genius often creates out-of-the-box thinking. Aligning the Dots makes you think differently and that makes

it powerful. Any business should understand and use these concepts.

—Nolan Bushnell CEO of X2 Games Founder and former CEO of Atari and Chuck E Cheese!

Category: Business

Publisher: Onward Business Press

Page count: 240 (full-color)

ISBN: 9781734208702

Price: $27.95

Formats: Hardcover, e-book

About the Author:

Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. has spent three decades in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a venture capitalist, and a management consultant. He is Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a firm he co-founded focused on top-line acceleration. He started his career as the founder and CEO of G2i, Inc. a Unix software company that was acquired by Matra. He then was Senior Vice President at Matra Hachette Multimedia, Inc., where he led US business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company before joining Apple as Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce Group, where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350 million.

After Apple, Bouissou became a venture capitalist and successfully invested $43 million and generated double-digit cash-on-cash IRR. For over half a decade, Bouissou co-managed the Milestone Group, a management consulting firm serving over 220 clients. During his career, Bouissou led over 120 management-consulting projects with companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, and Verisign and served on the board of directors of 20 companies, including ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Silicon Valley, where he currently serves.

Bouissou graduated from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Physics, and a Ph.D. in non-linear physics and chaos theory.

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Influencing Our Day – Todays Behavior and the Way We Interact with Others.
As Autumn is a Time of Transformation we’re here with Rachel Herz, PH.D. And World Renowned Expert on the Psychology of Smell and Emotion. She is here to discuss the Importance of Fragrance and Emotion and Learn More about How Fragrance can Help Encourage Us to Step Out of Our Comfort Zone this Season.

Rachel Herz, PhD & Author Bio
Rachel Herz, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and leading world expert on the psychological science of smell. She has been conducting research on the sense of smell, emotion, perception, motivated behavior and cognition since 1990. Dr. Herz has published over 75 original research papers, received numerous awards and grants, co-authored several college textbooks, and is an adjunct professor at Brown University and Boston College. She is also a professional consultant to various industries regarding smell, taste, food and flavor, and is frequently called upon as an expert witness in legal cases involving olfaction. Dr. Herz is the author of two popular science books, The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell, which was selected as a finalist for the “2009 AAAS Prize for Excellence in Science Books,” and That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, which analyzes the emotion of disgust from culture to neuroscience, and has received numerous accolades from both popular and scholarly presses. Currently in the process of publication, Rachel Herz has a new book that explores how our senses and psychology govern our perception of food, and the experience and consequences of eating.
For more information see: www.rachelherz.com

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