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Friday, August 28, 2020
We are pleased to announce our 2020-2021 team of Planet Forward Correspondents! More information will be shared soon about the exceptional team of students selected. Get to know them below:
Monday, February 28, 2011
Vice President Elliot Roseman of ICF International discusses what he thinks will be the key to our energy future. He discusses various energy storage technologies being pursued now, and comments on the future of energy storage.
Tags: Technology, energy, batteries, electric vehicles, Energy Storage
Friday, February 25, 2011
President Scott Sklar of The Stella Group Ltd discusses what he thinks will be the key to our energy future. He discusses various energy storage technologies including thermal salt, advanced batteries, fly wheels, and pumped storage.
Tags: Technology, energy, batteries, smartgrid, Energy Storage, Thermal Salt
The George Washington University
Monday, November 14, 2011
Vietnam is one of the 10 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change. How are the people there coping with the changes? PISA, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia, visits a rice growing community to discover what adaptation...
Tags: climate change, GWU, Adaptation, vietnam, sea level rise, PISA, salt incursion, cyclones, limestone powder, nam dinh
The George Washington University
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
How much carbon do all those music videos and lolcats produce? Turns out it's quite a lot. Watch
Tags: thinkfwd, student work, data farms, youtube, get involved, computer servers, computing
Planet Forward, George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Follow Our Travels in Africa
Tags: explorers, GWU, Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, kibera, slums, Development, developing countries
Planet Forward, GWU School of Media and Public Affairs
Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Troubadours, one of The George Washington University's student a capella groups, added some pep to help recruit the leaders of tomorrow to find food security solutions with this parody music video. To view the livestream of the Fee
Tags: food security, feeding the planet, Student activism, GWU
Planet Forward, George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
We talk about climate change in abstract terms most of the time: tons of carbon, invisible emissions, and the future 100 years from now. Climate change, though, is already here, and its affecting us where we live.
Tags: hometown
George Washington University
Sunday, March 03, 2019
Biodiversity in the Cerrado of Brazil is threatened; learn about the researchers investigating Turtle Ants in this unique biodiversity hotspot.
Tags: Biodiversity, Storyfest 2019, Ants, Adaptation, Threatened Ecosystem, research, Cerrado, brazil
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
On this week's Healthy You podcast, host Frank Sesno speaks with Professor of Physics Neil Johnson about the online landscape between anti-vaccine and pro-vaccine groups.