Carbon dioxide is the chief culprit causing climate change. The greenhouse gas is released through a variety of human activities, including tillage, deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. Although the gas naturally circulates among the planet’s oceans, atmosphere and plants, human activities have produced carbon dioxide in excess of …
Last fall, I attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), where I met Joyce Coffee, a self-described “Midwest-based adaptation maven” and an advocate for corporate sustainability solutions. I recently reconnected with Joyce to discuss the role of adaptation in global climate leadership and how governments, nonprofits and businesses are innovating …
By Sanaz Arjomand, M.S. in Environmental Policy 2016 As I’ve seen firsthand as the American Farmland Trust (AFT) New York Policy Intern, it is an exciting time to be an agri-environmental advocate in New York State. From Governor Cuomo’s record-breaking $300 million Environmental Protection Fund budget proposal to nationally-ranked farmland …
What does leadership in energy efficiency policy look like? www.genesys-project.eu Energy efficiency is an enormous field with numerous different stakeholders, such as utility companies, non-governmental organizations, and the general public. Although each group can vary in its goals and methods of affecting change in the energy efficiency arena, they all …
By Eban Goodstein Becca Krasky is a first year student at Macalester College in Minnesota. If someday she has kids, they will be college-age around the year 2045. She will be in her late 40’s. And by that year, we will know the future of the earth. We will know …
Big Sky Country. What runs through your mind when you read those three words? A never-ending canopy of blue skies, perhaps? The wide open spaces of ranch land, home to cowboys and cattle? Or crystal-clear rivers teeming with trout, meandering through green meadows bordered by snow-capped peaks? For me, and …
The national initiative pairs college students from across the state with key decision makers and legislators Penn State faculty and students from University Park are collaborating with several other Pennsylvania institutions and the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) on the PA Power Dialog — one of 30 Power …
On Monday April 4th, thousands of college and university students will be participating in the Power Dialog. Students and supporting faculty will engage in face-to-face dialogs with top environmental and energy officials in dozens of states. The topic? State-level action to help meet the US climate commitment of 30% cuts in …
While conservation efforts are often delineated by geographical region, their impacts are worldwide. Leading and participating in this charge can be overwhelming, but I had the opportunity to speak with two leaders who embrace this challenge to get work done. Kate Brown and Cate Owren are two amazing people I had …
Listen to the National Climate Seminar webinar from March 9th here. We spoke with Alex Barron on the rhetoric and data surrounding jobs and U.S. climate policy. Alex Barron is currently an assistant professor in the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Smith College.
