This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Addressing a global challenge as complex as climate change demands a full suite of solutions and actors, but one powerful intervention is widely overlooked: educating girls. Education gives girls the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 30314 ZIP code of west Atlanta, home to the neighborhood of Bankhead, is one of the most energy-burdened zip codes in the city. Residents pay five times more for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the world nears its tipping points for climate change, biodiversity loss and natural resources depletion, sustainability takes on double the significance for food companies. The agri-food sector relies on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. George Ferns learned about the fossil fuel divestment movement as a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh. Ferns became interested in People & Planet, the United Kingdom’s largest student…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Californians have been concerned about wildfires for a long time, but the past two years have left many of them fearful and questioning whether any solutions to the fire crisis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest have a clear message for decision-makers ahead of two global environment conferences: respect our land and human rights to slow climate change and protect…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 20 major federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), came out last week with new climate adaptation plans that have implications for cities. The plans stem…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While philanthropic funding for climate change mitigation increased in 2020, as a percentage of total giving it remained below 2 percent and is not nearly sufficient to meet the urgency…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricane Ida hit New York City on September 16, it dumped more than three inches of rain an hour. Sewers overflowed, streets turned into rivers, and thousands of homes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The report challenges eaters who have sustainability on their minds to think beyond just the food they consume each day. “If concern about climate change, the environment, or your personal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2020 has become a reckoning for American culture through the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, the ominous storms in the east and the apocalyptic wildfires of the west. We…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s bridges are in rough shape. Of the nearly 620,000 bridges over roads, rivers and other waterways across the U.S., more than 43,500 of them, about 7%, are considered “structurally…