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Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University
Monday, January 27, 2020
Texas is known nationwide as being home to cotton, cattle, and oil booms. But renewable energy industries are quickly gaining popularity in the state.
Tags: storyfest2020, wind, turbines, energy, Green, rural, Urban, texas, industry, Ecology and Economics
Even comprehensive recycling is four times less effective than cutting meat out of your diet. (Orin Zebest/Creative Commons)
Northwestern University
Monday, August 07, 2017
For Americans interested in reducing their carbon footprint, a new Canadian-Swedish study has a bold proposition: Consider having fewer children.
Tags: carbon footprint, climate change
Planet Forward
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
On day two of the 2015 Feeding the Planet Summit, we asked our consortium students to send us their reactions to the two-day event. Here's what they had to say:
Tags: feeding the planet 2015
(Sam Bradway/Planet Forward)
Middlebury College
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Ruby Woodside, a fellow at Second Nature, discusses what carbon neutrality will look like in the coming year, now that several major institutions have gone entirely Carbon Neutral.
Tags: carbon neutrality, Middlebury College, energy, greenhouse gas emissions
Northwestern University
Thursday, April 27, 2017
One culinary intern at Kalu Yala used her time in Panama to improve her personal relationship with food and to get an example of a sustainable food system that contrasts the American food system.
Tags: food, Farm To Table, Garden, ecological agriculture, agriculture
Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington. (Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 175623)
In April 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry signs the Paris Climate Agreement, while holding his 2-year-old granddaughter. At COP21 in December 2015, Kerry said, "The world has come together around an agreement that will empower us to chart a new path for our planet – a smart and responsible path, a sustainable path. And extraordinarily, we are 196 delegations, 186 plans. That is a remarkable global commitment." (U.S. State Department)
Planet Forward
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The Planet Forward Advisory Board member explains his unconventional opinion about how he felt toward the withdrawal from the Paris agreement.
Tags: expert voices, Paris Climate Withdrawal, climate change, Climate Change Agreement, #wearestillin
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The growing role of natural gas in the U.S. energy mix continues to confound and divide renewable energy experts and investors. Is America’s abundant supply of shale gas a boon for the renewable industry, or undercutting it?
Tags: natural gas, fracking, solar wind
The George Washington University
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
According to Lance Price, overuse of antibiotics in livestock could set us back nearly 100 years in public health — but the consumer can do something about it.
Tags: antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, cattle, animal health, food system, food safety
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
American University
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
At Sierra Club D.C.'s screening of "The True Cost," American University students learned about the environmental and social impact of the fashion industry.