A recent academic paper I read off-handedly mentions that trying to establish a collaborative water management group in California has a chance of success equivalent to a bunch of blindfolded people trying to find an elephant. After five months working for the Sierra Nevada Alliance. I optimistically disagree. Recently, there …
Discounting the SCC: “Wait, this isn’t a sale!” By: Ashley Brinkman MS ’15 and Anna McKeigue MS ‘15 This week’s National Climate Seminar at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy focused on the social cost of carbon (SCC). The guest speaker, Laurie Johnson of the National Resource Defense Council, asked …
Many avid travelers desire a rugged, awe-inspiring Alaska cruise experience. Where families might struggle to decide between Princess, Carnival, or Royal Caribbean, I spent the last month aboard the USCGC Healy , exploring the Arctic Ocean and contributing to the understanding of the chemistry of the Arctic Ocean. One of …
Crossposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Two weekends ago I stood in a room of over 7,000 fellow young people chanting that we believe that we will solve the climate crisis by ending our dependence on fossil fuels and transitioning immediately to 100% clean energy. It is clear that, as a movement, we are …
Written by Adelina Keshishian Originally posted at http://theoriess.tumblr.com, on October 27, 2013 I haven’t written in my log for a while, but i am starting again for a few reasons… For starters, I was inspired. I was inspired to be optimistic again. The majority of the people in my life think …
What do women’s solutions to climate change look like? What does resiliency mean for women and men alike? How can already fragile sectors and infrastructures overcome the impact of increasing disaster? In a country as at-risk to the impacts of a changing climate as Mozambique is (currently the country ranks …
by Robert Friedman Originally posted on October 22, 2013 on switchboard.nrdc.org There’s something about standing on a fracking pad or at the edge of a mountaintop removal site that changes you forever. You ask yourself how anyone could be so blinded to be removing mountains from the landscape, to be contaminating peoples’ …
Do as your heart tells you “Do as your heart tells you,” I was often told, in between the walnut groves on a wise grandmother’s porch last summer. At the time, I was serving as an AmeriCorps member, running environmental education and eco-restoration projects for a land trust. My heart …
By Sam Lohse (Originally posted at The Open Window Exchange October 17, 2013) LOCATION: MONDULI, TANZANIA Twenty four people On an adventure. Tanzania. Nineteen thousand three hundred forty one feet of climbing. Run back down. Kilimanjaro. Two snakes at the park In our hands. Meserani. Hundreds of school girls Singing to …
The Lost City of Miami By: Terence Duvall, MS ’15, and Molly Gilligan, MS ’15 We are currently experiencing a slow-motion catastrophe. The die is cast. We have emitted enough carbon into the atmosphere to guarantee climate change and rising sea levels. Some of our most precious real estate, our commercial …
