Reposted from BRKFREE By Peter Croce, C2C Fellow There is a major gap in the assumption that market production is a mirror of consumer demand. It’s not, because the mirror is dirty. It’s a problem of transparency.
1963. I am three years old. My older sister, seven, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit integrating our grade school in south central Tennessee. There are three billion people in the world. One of them is named Chung Chungin. She is six and lives in Seoul, Korea. The atmosphere holds …
As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging – fiercely, loudly and right next door Reposted from The Rolling Stone By: Bill McKibben It got so hot in Australia in January that …
By Dr. Jennifer Phillips Over the coming decades, climate change will challenge regional, national, and global economies. Some regions of the world will see agricultural productivity drop by 50% by 2080, while regions will experience increased productivity. Part of the adaptation process will be to build resilience into …
By Karen Corey Love Canal. Chernobyl. Bhopal. Three Mile Island. Deepwater Horizon. Fukushima. Each of these is a place that has become synonymous with environmental disaster, provoking environmental regulation and concerns about large-scale environmental devastation. Few people argue with the necessity of investing money to rehabilitate Superfund sites or radiation-contaminated zones. But long-term, chronic environmental …
Reposted from Switchboard By Kelly Henderson, C2C Fellow, National Resources Defense Council As a young person in an organization full of seasoned experts, I often find myself wanting to learn and do more to not only contribute to the organization’s goals, but also to develop my own personal skill set …
Greenhouse Gases and Co-Pollutants: A Juggling Act By: Jada Garofalo, Ceyda Durmaz, and Alan Kroeger Monitoring more pollutants than merely carbon? This sounds like more work, right? Not according to James Boyce and Manuel Pastor. James Boyce, featured this past Wednesday in the last National Climate Seminar of the academic …
by Maxine Segarnick As the world’s population continues to expand over the next century, so will the need for energy production. The energy sources used predominantly around the world include coal, oil, and natural gas, all of which emit large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants when …
By Erika Nelson More than 3,000 people from 115 institutions participated in the National Conversation on Democracy and Climate last week, which was organized at Bard and available virtually to organizations across the country. Hosted by C2C Fellows on Wednesday, April 17, the event featured a coordinated nationwide screening of the filmThe …
Since its founding, the US has seen its population steadily move from rural to urban environments: the 1790 US Census reported a 95% rural to 5% urban ratio, the 1890 US Census a 28% to 72% ratio, the 2010 US Census a 20% to 80% ratio. While urbanization has produced large-scale economic and …
