Do you like to breathe? I hope so, because it’s an involuntary action that keeps us alive. Of the air I can breathe, clean air is my favorite. Polluted air is not clean air. Not only is it not fun to breathe (think of car exhaust), but it’s detrimental to your health. …
Did you know that climate change has a lethal “bite” that may cost thousands of women their health, their lives and their future? “I spent ages blaming myself, the government and constantly asking myself why this happened to me.” This is how Vanessa Oliveira expressed her feelings of guilt and remorse after …
Attention all those “safe” from flooding . . . In the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York City has proactively initiated several projects to enhance the city’s resilience and protect its citizens from coastal flooding in the event of another Sandy-like storm. However, recent research suggests that the City’s coastal …
As I’ve mentioned in my previous blogs about working for NYSERDA, New York City is going through a major energy transition. The State and City governments are both looking at ways to drastically change the energy landscape to include more distributed renewable sources of generation and to reduce energy usage, …
The week of April 4th, 2016, over a thousand of students from more than fifty colleges and universities in twenty state capitals participated in Power Dialog forums with state officials and other experts. The focus: state policy efforts to cut global warming pollution, and support the US commitment to reduce …
For the last nine months, four students at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley have been meeting in a basement office on campus. Their mission: to catalyze a nationwide conversation about state-level action on climate change. Undergraduates Xaver Kandler and Maggie Berke, and environmental policy graduate students Meredith Lavalley and …
As the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China is facing increasing pressure on emissions reductions. Meanwhile, the nation also is facing domestic pressure regarding employment, urbanization, and traditional pollutant (such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide) emissions reductions. The dilemma that China faces today is a developmental crisis coexisting …
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 …
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 …
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 …
