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The road ahead for both COVID-19 and climate change is stormy, but with science and facts by our side we can find solutions to both.
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Friday, April 17, 2020
How can we apply the lessons we are learning now to the next looming threat — climate change — recognizing that it will, by necessity, take a back seat until the current health emergency and economic crisis subside?
Tags: opinion, climate change, public health, covid-19, coronavirus, op-ed, education
Monday, December 13, 2010
When I first sat down to write this blog (summarizing what I had learnt during my semester of working with Planet Forward) I had a million and one things going through my mind. Where do I stat? What do I narrow it down to?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
This blog post was originally published on The Energy Blog, a project of Planet Forward and National Geographic
Matilda Kreider in the entrance hall to the Committee on World Food Security Conference at FAO headquarters in Rome. (Marisa Umeh/UC-Berkeley)
George Washington University
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
At the end of our time in Rome, I spent a day exploring the ancient city of Pompeii. Just as Pompeii experienced a catastrophic environmental event in 79 A.D., we in 2019 are facing down climate change on a global scale.
Tags: PFrome2019, SDGs, nutrition, zerohunger, fao, unfao, united nations, cfs46, pfinrome
Planet Forward
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tesla Roasters might remain the sexiest EVs on the road, but what are Planet Forward members excited about? We list our top 5 ideas in electric cars.
Tags: electric vehicles, tessla roadster
Planet Forward
Monday, January 23, 2012
It's winter and you're probably realizing how awful your insulation is -- I'm looking at you, Seattle -- and also starting to rethink that la
Purdue University
Monday, November 02, 2015
As engineers, Storyfest winners Jeremy Robison and David Wilson discuss the importance of communicating the story behind your idea.
Tags: storyfest, storytelling, education
Chicago O'Hare International Airport had a vertical garden on display, shown here in 2012. (Source: Creative Commons)
Bates College
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Much of the food that urbanites eat must be trucked in, frequently from great distances. Faced with this dilemma, some cities are turning to a unique solution: Vertical farming.
Tags: urban agriculture, vertical farming, Food Sustainability
Greta Thunberg on Friday, Sept. 20, during her closing speech for the Climate Strike in New York. (Elina Mariutsa/Northeastern University)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Northeastern University
Friday, October 04, 2019
With the goal of motivating world leaders, young people have drawn universal attention to global warming in ways that decades of scientific progress could not.
Tags: climate, climate action, climate strike, Greta Thunberg, New York City, youth, environmental activism, united nations, PFfaces
Recycling flows through Waste Management's CID Recycling & Disposal operation on Chicago's far southeast side in this 2015 image. (Chris Bentley/Creative Commons)
SUNY College at Brockport
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Recycling used to be thought of as the answer to our waste problems. But rising recycling issues mean the U.S. has to change its strategies toward waste, reports a new survey from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.