This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Paris has joined 32 cities from the 100 Resilience Cities Network to release its first resilience strategy, part of which will incorporate public schoolyards as ‘new’ public spaces. Anne Hidalgo, Mayor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Musician and Hip Hop Caucus’ Bay Area Coordinator, Mystic, shares her thoughts on how environmental organizations could better engage communities of color. If the perception is that white folks are…
How does climate change effect natural disasters? President of the Union of Concerned Scientists Kenneth Kimmell says the fingerprints of climate change are all over the recent hurricanes and wildfires…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 150 million people live off-grid in Southeast Asia and spend $3 billion each year on lighting and heating substitutes, like kerosene. SolarHome sells pay-as-you-go home solar products to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation is funding an innovative solar energy program at Girls Inc. of Sarasota County that it hopes will become a money-saving, green-energy model for other youth-serving organizations in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Washington, D.C. has a funny, if not sad, way of changing the way folks think and act. Many officials ride into town with clear eyes and deeply rooted market-based principles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To prepare for the rising temperatures, strengthening storms and higher sea levels in the coming decades, Fiji must spend an amount equivalent to its entire yearly gross domestic product over the next…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late July, working in the middle of the night, researchers began visiting beaches in Costa Rica with 3D-printed spheres–each roughly the size of a golf ball–designed to look like…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 23rd Conference of the Parties, better known as COP23, is underway in the city of Bonn in Germany. Over the next two weeks, 23,000 delegates and 500 nongovernmental organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Those women are not letting their farms and villages slide into neglect. Rather, these unlikely entrepreneurs are leading a rural revival. Devi is part of a grassroots, women-led movement that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Washington Urban–Wildland Carnivore Project is exploring ways to promote coexistence among humans and carnivores in King County. A collaboration between Woodland Park Zoo and the University of Washington (UW)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rising temperatures are making hard outdoor jobs even harder. It is the kind of heat that will ground airplanes and melt rail lines, and health experts say agricultural workers are…