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Bringing Consensus Politics Back to Environmental Issues
In the blue-red political world we’ve created we need to remember the values we share and our interdependency.
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Completing My Fieldwork and Returning to Dhaka
My last days in the field brought us to monuments in a makeshift home near the ocean, a flooded field next to a school, and adjacent to a jute mill. Most of us now head back to Dhaka, the capital. Céline will stay on a few more days, then Hasnat with Saif and Nahin will…
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Long Days in the Field in Southern Bangladesh
We continued our GPS surveys of monuments to measure land subsidence. While the work general went very well, we faced challenges from obscured or tilted monuments. We also struggled with large traffic delays, particularly at unpredictable ferry crossings.
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The Next Climate Tech Breakthrough May Have Already Happened, We Just Didn’t Notice
How biomimicry and evolution can offer sustainable solutions for adaptation and resilience.
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Installing GPS Around Barisal, Bangladesh
Getting to remote sites started to prove challenging, and involved many forms of transportation by land and water.
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The Renewable Rather than Roaring Twenties: A Sustainability Decade
I believe we are entering the decade when humankind will firmly pivot in the direction of sustainability.
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Back to Bangladesh: How Fast Is the Delta Sinking?
I am back in Bangladesh once more to investigate the balance between sea level rise, the sinking of the land, and the filling of the space with sediments.
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Landscape Conversion and its Impacts on Biodiversity Conservation in the Middle East
Conservation initiatives in the region can only be successful when they transcend boundaries, much the same way nature itself transcends boundaries.
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Moving Toward Sustainable Energy in New York City
It is the leadership that we are seeing from New York’s government and institutions today that will help ensure that the cost structure of New York City’s energy will be able to compete with enlightened cities around the globe.
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