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Each basketball season, UConn's Office of Sustainability and UConn Athletics partner to host a Green Game Day at Gampel Pavilion to promote recycling and engage with the community. (Maggie Singman)
University of Connecticut
Monday, December 19, 2022
How the world of athletics can lead the charge in addressing climate change at the game day level and beyond.
Tags: sustainability, UCONN, Green Athletics
One of the bottle refilling stations on campus. (Alexander Welling/The Hatchet)
Planet Forward FAO Fellow | George Washington University
Thursday, April 01, 2021
A task force aiming to eliminate the use of single-use plastics on campus produced a report in October 2020 recommending plans like cutting plastic bottles from vending machines and installing more water bottle fillers in residence halls
Tags: plastic, plastic waste, recycling, Colleges and Universities, The George Washington University, Campus Sustainability, storyfest2021
University of Connecticut
Thursday, March 24, 2022
In Port Chester, community members, myself included, are pleading with the Village to consider implementing mechanisms for environmentally- and community-conscious planning which have emerged in the last decades.
Tags: storyfest2022, sustainable development, home
University of Vermont
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
Toward the end of Sasco Creek Road in Westport, Connecticut, passersby witness a charming landscape change. The typical residential street opens up to a vast meadow where grasses tickle the waists of hikers and birdwatchers.
Tags: Biodiversity, environmental activism, Ecosystems, wildlife, endangered species, local activism, climate change
Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, Connecticut (2021) (Zoey England/University of Connecticut).
University of Connecticut
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Although ecoanxiety impacts all ages, its influences are disproportionately felt among young people. These feelings, compounded in many by COP26’s resolution, make prioritizing mental well-being as a climate activist paramount.
Tags: ecoanxiety, climate grief, mental health, youth climate movement, storyfest2022
University of Connecticut COP26 delegates stand with Sudanese-American poet and activist, Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud, center. (University of Connecticut)
University of Connecticut
Monday, November 22, 2021
The UN COP conferences would be different if we listened more intently to those being directly impacted by the climate crisis.
Tags: climate change, united nations, cop26, Climate Change Conference, gender, equity, climate leadership, essay
The George Washington Universtiy
Monday, December 15, 2014
Climate change can mean more insects that carry disease - can we adapt for our health and our future?
Tags: vector-borne disease, lyme disease, northeast, climate, climate change, Adaptation, climate adaptation, family, health
George Washington University
Thursday, February 06, 2020
Growing up in a beach house in a town that comes alive in the summer was paradise. But it will soon be paradise submerged.
Tags: Hurricane, sea level rise, Adaptation, climate change, sea wall, natural disaster
Walking to the COP27 Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. (Claire Lee)
University of Connecticut
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Science or legislation? My experience at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt highlighted the importance of bringing interdisciplinary action and voices to the climate spotlight.