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Planet Forward
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Help shape our conversation on April 20 by submitting your questions to Planet Forward's Google Moderator
(Proposed streetscape improvements from the Van Ness plan.)
American University
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Tags: city living, stormwater management, community revitalization
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Pacific sockeye salmon during the annual migration. The Canadian government recently announced its (CAD) $647 million Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative. “Hopefully it’s not too little, too late,” says marine campaigner Emmie Page (Image by Oregon State University/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en).
Northwestern University
Monday, October 11, 2021
In June 2021, a heat wave spread over the Pacific Northwest, with people in the region wilting from record high temperatures. But, Fiona Skeggs reports, the threats are soaring for rivers and marine life as well.
Tags: ocean, conservation, salmon, orca, PNW, climate change
Planet Forward
Thursday, March 10, 2011
As an intern for Planet Forward, I have heard about the live taping for our PBS April Special before I could even clearly define the difference between ethanol and butanol.
Columbia University
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
We can start students on sustainability early by integrating it into our classrooms.
Tags: education, classroom sustainability, youth
Jordan Welch talks to her grandfather Charlie Payne on July 20 in Concordia. Charlie Payne purchased the Payne family’s land more than 60 years ago, and he still helps out in an advisory capacity on the farm. (Jia Wu/Columbia Missourian)
University of Missouri
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Climate change is redrawing the agricultural map of the United States. As corn becomes less economically viable with changing Midwestern weather patterns, farmers look to a more diverse future.
Tags: climate smart agriculture, climate change, Midwest, conventional farming, corn, soy, sheep, chestnuts, regenerative agriculture
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said, "The challenges today are not a question of if we have the the opportunity to make progress on these issues but how do we act when we can’t see the problems?” (Photo: GWU)
Senior Writer, Planet Forward
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Effective storytelling rests at the nexus of innovations seeking to address the urgent social and environmental sustainability challenges facing cities across the globe. This was the overarching theme of the 2016 Planet Forward Summit.
Tags: sustainable cities, Urban, food, transportation, GW
Tornado damage in Louisville, Miss., in April 2014. (Maj. Andy Thaggard/National Guard)
University of Mississippi
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Vague tornado watches and warnings could soon become a thing of the past, thanks to research at the National Center for Physical Acoustics.
Tags: tornado, Extreme weather, weather, damage, storyfest2018
Planet Forward, The George Washington University
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Climate-KIC (Knowledge & Innovation Community), Europe’s main climate innovation initiative, recently hosted “hackathons” simultaneously in 16 cities around the world. D.C.'s event was at GW.
Tags: food, Food Waste, Climathon, Sustainability at GW
Naomi Oreskes addresses scientists at the annual AAAS Conference in Boston. (Janice Cantieri/MEDILL)
Northwestern University
Friday, February 24, 2017
Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes urged hundreds of scientists to step beyond the objectivity of their data and embrace the riskier role as “sentinels” for scientific facts.