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Monday, April 01, 2013
Indiana State University is focused on advancing sustainability and quality of life by using our community as a living laboratory for solutions to global problems.
Tags: Indiana State University, Climate Leadership Awards 2013
(Photo by Natsuko Mazany)
The George Washington University, Spring 2016 Editorial Intern
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Halley and Natsuko created a photo story focused on food beauty standards and how they cause consumers to have unrealistic expectations of how fruit and vegetables should look.
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Indiana University, storyfest2016 finalist, storyfest2016
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
College campuses are energy guzzlers. I know because I just graduated from Indiana University.
Tags: sustainability, energy, innovation, homes, college, Ac, Air conditioning, Smart homes, Thinkeco
Storyfest winners in attendance, Jesse Gurney, Kira Sommer and Sara Merken, are flanked by Ajay Markanday, the Director of the FAO Liaison Office for North America, on their left, and Planet Forward host & founder Frank Sesno. (Photo: GWU)
Planet Forward
Monday, April 25, 2016
Congratulations to the 2016 Storyfest Grand Prize winners, who won $500 and a trip to the UN headquarters in New York City:
Tags: storyfest2016, storyfest2016 finalist, storyfest2016 winners
A historical photograph of the West Calumet Housing Complex provided by the East Chicago Public Library for the Northwest Indiana Times.
Northwestern University
Monday, January 08, 2018
High lead and arsenic contamination has been plaguing East Chicago, Indiana, residential areas since at least the 1980s. Read about residents who have been affected by this crisis and their fight for recovery.
Tags: epa, superfund, East Chicago, lead, clean water, contaminated water
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
The competition for the title of Storyfest winner is incredibly tough this year. After much deliberating from our committee of judges, we’re excited to announce the best of the best: this year’s Storyfest finalists.
Tags: storyfest, Storyfest 2022, Planet Forward Summit
energyNOW
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Americans use 40 billion plastic utensils every year at cookouts, picnics, and around the home. Almost all of them are sent to landfills where they'll take thousands of years to decompose. Not bioplastics.
Tags: Bioplastics, The Pros and Cons of Natural Gas
Petcoke piles are stored at a Koch Bros. storage site on the Calumet River in Chicago, Illinois, in 2014. (Terry Evans)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Loyola University Chicago
Monday, January 07, 2019
Communities outside of Chicago stifled by BP's largest oil refinery are taking defiant steps to end its expansion of production—and dangerous emissions.
Tags: South Deering, Pilsen, chicago, Social Justice, Petcoke, Manganese, environmental justice, urban resilience, pfcorrespondent, storyfest2019
Monday, October 24, 2011
For all of the articles, feature slideshows and video reports from the 2011 Solar Decathlon, few focused on the most important real-world determinants in buying a home:
Planet Forward, George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Monday, September 29, 2014
Bill Hohenstein