Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy will require us to use limited, difficult-to-attain natural resources. Extracting those minerals has environmental consequences, and we don’t even know if the planetary supply can meet such a vast demand.
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Pearl Gray
|March 24, 2023
A Q&A with John Williams, who studies the historical links between the built environment and racial injustice in U.S. cities.
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Olivia Colton
|March 22, 2023
The attack on an ill-defined concept called “woke” public policy has now been extended to attacking managers and investors who have the “nerve” to pay attention to a company’s environmental footprint, organizational governance practices and social and community impact.
Columbia Climate School and Barnard College team up to celebrate the power of smart design, reuse, and repair, to build sustainability on campus and beyond.
A new study proposes a more holistic approach to planning restoration projects that do not “leave people off the map.”
As the digital divide grows, women in India are dropping out of the workforce. Columbia Climate School’s Center for Sustainable Development and the non-profit Mahashakti Seva Kendra are working together to reverse this trend.
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Radhika Iyengar and Pooja Iyengar
|March 7, 2023
Sustainability professionals must be equipped to manage in the evolving regulatory landscape that the SEC climate rule will bring.
An artist and alumna of the Climate and Society program, Chongtoua is exploring a variety of ways to wear earth on our bodies. Her work seeks to shape how we view our relationship with the planet.
New York City’s resilience and great economic strength are directly derived from its diverse people and communities.
Managing New York City is enormously complicated, and reaching carbon reduction goals will be a matter of two steps forward and one step back; management innovation is necessary to bring our city government’s operations into the 21st century and hasten the transition to environmental sustainability.