March 2016
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Entrepreneurial Alum Creates Healthier Living Spaces
“In the mainstream market, sustainability is seldom a selling feature. … This makes it challenging for sustainable manufacturers to thrive and provides little incentive for traditional manufactures to green their materials and processes. The market will change when mainstream consumers demand sustainable goods.”
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The Tools to Build a Green Economy
What role does public policy play in encouraging and facilitating the green economy? What are the policy tools and incentives that steer green investment effectively?
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Assessing Conflict in the Policy Process, Using Fracking as a Lens
Conflict is essential in the policy process, and understanding conflict better has the potential to assist policymakers and improve outcomes.
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NYC’s Public-Private Partnerships to Fight Climate Change
New York City’s Carbon Challenge is helping to foster public-private partnerships that are crucial in any city’s attempt to combat climate change.
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Zero Waste in San Francisco and New York: A Tale of Two Cities
Each city is different, and New York’s pace, diversity, and size make comparisons to San Francisco difficult. Still, large-scale behavior changes can be achieved with leadership, strategy and creativity.
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Almost Home, with Another 7 Million Years of Climate History
Science at sea isn’t easy, but the benefits are huge, writes Sidney Hemming in her final post from a two-month expedition that collected millions of years of climate history in the deep-sea sediment from off southern Africa.
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Create a Climate Game—and You Could Win $10,000
Through the Games for Change Climate Challenge, you can be a climate game-changer.
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‘Popping Rocks’ and Robots
It turns out that studying lava flows at the bottom of the ocean uses many of the same methods as studying lava flows on other planets, writes Lamont’s Elise Rumpf.
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Filling a Climate Gap and Helping Rwandan Farmers
Agriculture makes up a major portion of Rwanda’s economy, and employs eight in 10 Rwandans. Of course, farmers are hugely dependent on the climate, and a new project hopes to ensure they get timely information so they can plan for both good times and bad.
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
