Sustainability41
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How Buying Stuff Drives Climate Change
Consumerism causes a large chunk of our carbon emissions. Here are a few ideas for healthier habits during the holidays and beyond.
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Sustain What Webcast Invites Student and Faculty Takeovers
The webcast offers a platform for global conversations around sustainability and resilient human progress.
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How Lessons From Bees, Leaves and Our Own Blood May Help Us Save Civilization
A new book argues that humanity can stave off catastrophe by observing how natural systems have evolved simple strategies to assure their survival.
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Green Friday: How to Balance Shopping and Sustainability
In her new book, sustainability expert and moonlighting repairperson Sandra Goldmark explains how individuals, businesses, and policy makers can build an economy centered on care for all that we have.
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World is Not on Track to Achieve Global Deforestation Goals
Progress requires large-scale development projects to increase transparency and inclusion of grassroots and Indigenous groups.
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Electric Vehicles and Decarbonization
Electric vehicles and the infrastructure needed to support them are critical elements of a decarbonization strategy.
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Q&A With Lauren Ritchie on Intersectionality in the Climate Movement
The undergraduate student/blogger/activist shares her thoughts on the changing role of social justice within the climate movement.
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Environmental Symbolism and Environmental Reality
A pragmatic, operational focus on outcomes is a better approach than an effort to achieve symbolic victories that appeal to ideologically oriented partisans.
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Rebuilding America’s Environmental Agencies and Environmental Consensus
If we can wed the genius of free enterprise to the goal of a less polluted planet, we might find a pathway back to an American environmental consensus.
You Asked invites you to share your most pressing questions about climate, science, and sustainability. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School experts will respond with clear, evidence-based answers. Pose your questions and story ideas!
