Water Systems Are in Crisis. How Can Philanthropy Help?
By Laurie Mazur / On March 12th, 2018
Philanthropic capital can be a catalyst for sustainable, resilient solutions to our complex and costly water problems.
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To Prevent Disaster, Rethink Development
By Laurie Mazur, Edward Thomas / On October 13th, 2017
Three ways better building practices can reduce the risks of hurricanes like Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
Forget Pokemon Go, Use Your Phone to Fight Climate Change!
By Laurie Mazur / On August 2nd, 2016
A group called ISeeChange recently introduced a new mobile app that allows users to document the impacts of urban heat and drought. The ISeeChange Tracker app, created in collaboration with NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Mission, is creating a photographic database of real-world climate impacts.
Weather We Don't Recognize: A Case Study of Lorain, Ohio
By Jason Leppig / On May 11th, 2015
A new report that highlights specific examples of climate adaptation in the Midwest published this [last?] week in partnership with National Wildlife Federation. Informed by the data of Climate Change in the Midwest: A Synthesis Report for the National Climate Assessment, Weather We Don’t Recognize is an accessible primer on the new climate realities in the Midwest and why they matter.
Calculating How Fast Trees and Forests Grow
By Joe Landsberg / On August 11th, 2014
That might sound like a rather dry, technological subject, but it is, obviously, quite important in relation to wood production from forests. It’s also important to be able to calculate tree growth rates so we can estimate how fast forests can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it as carbon.
Hurricanes and sea level rise threaten us all.
By Chuck Savitt / On August 24th, 2009
Although the summer's first tropical storm to make U.S. landfall, Claudette, avoided doing significant damage, we're now in the midst of hurricane season.
On Celebrating Climate
By Timothy Beatley / On January 22nd, 2009
When I lived in Oregon many years ago there was a humorous expression: "Oregonians Don't Tan, they Rust!" There was much truth to that as much of late fall and winter in the Northwest is damp and rainy. Yet, this weather system is one of the aspects of place I remember most fondly; I can still recall the look and feel and smell of that rain. There was certainly not the sense that the rainy season was to be dreaded, rather it was one of the aspects of place that contributed positively to the special sense of place there.