This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The role of buildings in addressing climate change cannot be understated. They’re responsible for roughly 40 percent of emissions globally (taking into account both building materials and operating emissions), and addressing the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Months after George Floyd’s and Breonna Taylor’s murders sparked a wave of national protests against white supremacy, people and organizations across the country are still grappling with what it means…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The “Turn to Green Finance” was the earliest, simplest, and most consistent with the assumptions inter-woven in the first stage of climate action. It arose in the face of disappointment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report, which is considered the climate change evidence summary for policymakers worldwide, has stated that we must act if we are to avert…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We now know that coronavirus — much like police brutality, mass incarceration, and climate change — is not colorblind. It’s not that the virus itself differentiates by race, but, as with other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is no crystal ball to tell ecologists how forests of the future will respond to the changing climate, but a University of Arizona-led team of researchers may have created…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s the good news: With federal relief funds and the $1 trillion infrastructure legislation that passed last year, cities will have new resources to tackle challenges such as making public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one on connecting children and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2023 the first commercial-scale wind farm, constructed by Vineyard Wind, is expected to deliver enough energy to Massachusetts to power 400,000 homes and businesses. But fishing communities are pushing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People living in the western U.S. have been concerned about wildfires for a long time, but the past two years have left many of them fearful and questioning whether any…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Environmental justice in land conservation requires practitioners to slow down and consider the foundations that exclude or enable relationships with and control over land. The following stories highlight three organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The power of children’s stories resides largely in its audience: in how open young people are to new ideas. Their drive to experiment is familiar to any parent: Children invent…