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A neighborhood street in Hampton, Virginia, following a flash flood in 2020. (Aileen Devlin/Virginia Sea Grant https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
George Washington University
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Climate Hits Home | On just one day in Virginia, I experienced a severe thunderstorm watch, a flash flood warning, a tornado warning, and a state of emergency. What is going on?
Tags: Climate Hits Home, Virginia, flash flood, Hurricane, natural disasters, sea level
George Washington University
Friday, November 05, 2021
Climate Hits Home | My friends and I escaped the 2020 summer blues for a weekend camping. Before heading out, we stopped at the grocery store for food essentials. When we arrived at the site, we couldn’t cook any of it.
Tags: climate change, forest fires, Colorado, Red Feather Lakes, burn bans
Thursday, October 25, 2012
In the outskirts of western Berlin, a princess is in trouble.
Tags: Germany, Garden, Urban, berlin, Volkswagen, Prinzessinnengarten, VW, Marco Clausen, Robert Shaw, Lena Haug
Planet Forward, The George Washington University
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Climate-KIC (Knowledge & Innovation Community), Europe’s main climate innovation initiative, recently hosted “hackathons” simultaneously in 16 cities around the world. D.C.'s event was at GW.
Tags: food, Food Waste, Climathon, Sustainability at GW
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Northwestern University
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Cristobella Durrette reports that data released last week shows that the U.S. is not on track to meet Biden's climate change goals, at the start of a year when his climate agenda will face multiple challenges.
Tags: biden, climate policy, global temperature, greenhouse emissions
(Photos by Katherine Baker/Columbia University)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Cornell University
Thursday, December 06, 2018
Next in our Tackling Food Waste series: Any food discussion inevitably involves GMOs. Columbia University's Katherine Baker spoke with an organic farmer and plant pathologist/geneticist to find out more.
Tags: woodland, davis, pfincali, agriculture, sustainable agriculture, consumers, skepticism, storyfest2019
Planet Forward, George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Taking electric vehicles (or EVs) for a spin around the District.
Tags: transportation, solar, EV
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Despite all the green washing out there (and there is lots of it, lets be clear), corn-based ethanol is far from a panacea in terms of reducing America's dependence on imported oil, dependency on fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gases and represe
Sewanee's 13,000-acre campus, otherwise known as the "Domain." (Photo courtesy of the University of the South)
Sewanee: University of the South
Monday, February 13, 2017
A Q&A with Sewanee's Domain Manager, Nate Wilson, to learn more about Sewanee's land use decisions on our 13,000-acre campus.
Tags: conservation, forestry, land use, sewanee, interview, Biodiversity
In 2015, in collaboration with Indigenous leaders and Indigenous youth, FAO identified 6 pillars of work and 2 focus areas—Indigenous women and Indigenous youth—as part of FAO’s goal of freeing the world of hunger and malnutrition (Photo courtesy of UN Women/Ryan Brown https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).
Planet Forward FAO Fellow | University of Oklahoma
Thursday, September 09, 2021
Indigenous Peoples’ communities' challenges and priorities of “food security, food sovereignty, and health have accelerated and intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to Indigenous Peoples’ Liaison Mikaila Way.