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Maya van Rossum, shown here at an event in 2014, recently released a new book called “Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment.” (Chesapeake Climate/Creative Commons)
State University College at Buffalo
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Maya van Rossum has been the leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994. Planet Forward sat down with her to discuss her new book, “Green Amendment.”
Tags: constitution, law, Policy, politics, book, environmental law, health, rights, expert voices
A bird’s-eye view on Maine Yankee, where 60 casks of spent nuclear fuel and four casks of irradiated steel, a type of low-level radioactive waste, stand in a square formation. (Courtesy of Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company)
Northwestern University
Friday, July 19, 2019
Thirty-seven years ago, Congress decided the federal government should be responsible for disposing of the waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants. But it's still in limbo.
Tags: nuclear, nuclear waste, Toxic pollution, nuclear power, federal government, politics, storyfest2020
Greg McGlinch owns Down Home Farms, a 450-acre family farming operation in Darke County, Ohio. “I hate seeing soil go down the creek because you’re losing a lot of valuable nutrients,” he said on June 26, 2021. “A lot of that you can’t put a monetary value on” (Photo by Jules Struck).
Planet Forward FAO Fellow | Emerson College
Friday, September 03, 2021
Interest in sustainable farming practices is building, and while independent and governmental conservation organizations can be good resources for promoting ecological practices, farmers say that swapping information peer-to-peer works best.
Tags: fao, agriculture, farming community, sustainability, communication, education, FAO Fellows 2021
Members of one of GAYO Eco-Clubs at a Ghanaian university (Photo by the Green Africa Youth Organization)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | New York University
Sunday, March 06, 2022
Learn more about Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) and their impact in Ghana and on the international stage, from the perspective of GAYO Project Coordinator Betty Osse Bonsu.
Tags: ghana, Global South, circular economy, climate change, composting, recycling, GAYO, cop26, storyfest2022
Ancient glaciers carved this canyon in Tracy Arm Fjord thousands of years ago. Our group sailed via Zodiac to the glacier’s face. (Halley Hughes/University of Arizona)
Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | University of Arizona
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
An expedition with Lindblad in Southeast Alaska shows the realities of climate change and uncovers the mysteries behind the "language" of rocks.
Tags: storyfest2022, Lindblad Expeditions, astonishing alaska, geology, #climatechange
(Alan Vernon/flickr)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Ithaca College
Friday, September 16, 2022
HappyWhale, a website created in 2015, uses a unique algorithm to identify and track humpback whales. It relies on photographs from ordinary people to further scientific research.
Tags: astonishing alaska, Alaska, Humpback Whales, HappyWhale, Lindblad Expeditions, national geographic, storyfest2022
George Washington University
Thursday, February 22, 2018
The popular imagination may think of agriculture as Mom and Dad with a pitchfork, but today’s Nebraskan corn farm is probably the furthest thing from the average arm-chair-futurist’s daydreams of farming reality.
Tags: pfinnebraska, Nebraska, precision agriculture, agriculture, farm, storyfest2018
Azzizia Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia. (Waleed Alzuhair/Flickr)
Northeastern University
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Q&A with Sarah Fletcher, a Fellow for Water Solutions, about large desalination plant infrastructure projects and alternatives such as water rationing.
Tags: Water, Desalination, Technology
Traveling on boats is the main mode of transportation between islands of Guna Yala, and most are operated by local Guna people. (Luodan Rojas/Medill)
Northwestern University
Monday, June 04, 2018
Separated by miles of ocean and a 2-hour drive, or a 50-mile hike, through the jungle, Guna Yala and Kalu Yala are two of Panama’s most sustainable communities, but they also are starkly different. Medill's Luodan Rojas reports.
Tags: kalu yala, Guna Yala, sustainability, ecotourism, off grid living, sustainable living
Diwigdi Valiente says that many older Guna people don’t understand climate change, especially since they have lived traditional lives that contribute very little to the problem. (Alex Schwartz/Medill)
Northwestern University
Monday, May 14, 2018
Medill's Jessica Mordacq reports from Panama: The San Blas Islands and Kalu Yala are two very different environments in Panama that both revolve heavily around tourism.