Setting the Table for a Climate-Conscious Diet
By Fiona McBride Daily headlines reprimand shoppers for perpetuating climate change, encouraging them to tackle global warming by replacing one supermarket purchase with another or […]
Environment
Beyond Overabundance: A Smarter Strategy For True Food Security
By Maria F. Balcazar Tellez Scientists, engineers, and governments today are striving to meet the food demands of the 9.1 billion people expected to live […]
Combating Carbon Emissions on the Road through Car Sharing
By KJ Keijan Zhao At the 2015 Paris climate conference, 195 countries set out to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. […]
Save the Cat, Save the World
By Sarang Chaudhary In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger suggested a thought experiment that left even Albert Einstein scratching his head. Schrodinger questioned a tenet […]
The Complexities of Disaster Response Funding
by Courtney Colburn In recent months, the world experienced a seemingly unending sequence of disasters, hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires, many of them impacting the US […]
Proposed EPA Budget Cuts Hamstring Environmental Protection
By Elizabeth Leuin What does environmental “protection” look like when the head of the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t consider human activity a primary contributor to […]
What California’s Ambitious Climate Bills Mean for Policy
by Chris Busch and Hallie Kennan California recently fortified its role as a global leader in climate policy with passage of Senate Bill (SB) 32 […]
International Perspectives: "The Politics of Precaution"
By Ashley Clark Last week, the International Policy, Development and Practice Speaker Series welcomed David Vogel, Professor at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. […]