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Christine Appah-Gyamfi Empowers Students to Lead on Environmental Justice Issues
In her class at the Columbia Climate School, this environmental justice lawyer provides tools and hands-on opportunities for her students to generate real-world impacts.
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Viewing Urban Geography and History Through an Environmental Justice Lens
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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Opinion: Why Environmentalists Should Oppose ‘Cop City’ and Defend the Atlanta Forest
A Sustainability Management graduate student discusses questions of environmental injustice in Atlanta, Georgia, as one county prepares to turn a large greenspace into a police training facility.
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People Like to Breathe: The Importance of EPA’s New Air Particulate Proposal
In the United States, we need strong pollution control standards that are enforced carefully, precisely, and with a deep understanding of the pace of operational change that is feasible for a particular business or locality.
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New York City’s Greenery Absorbs a Surprising Amount of Its Carbon Emissions
A hyper-local study of vegetation shows that the city’s trees and grass often cancel out all the CO2 released from cars, trucks and buses on summer days.
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New York City’s Dynamism is Why Our City Will Not Fail
Diversity and tolerance comprise the secret sauce that fuels New York City’s creative and economic dynamism.
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There Are, in Fact, Fish in the Hudson River
The river — much like post-pandemic New York City — is more resilient than people think.
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What City Planners Can Learn From Hurricane Sandy
Based on a decade of data from Hurricane Sandy, two New York City planners explore the inequities of disaster mitigation and recovery — and what needs to change to prevent climate gentrification.
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Data Dive: NYC Traffic Trends, Street Safety and Public Health
Professor Peter Muennig discusses the state of New York City’s streets, and what could be done to make them safer.