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The George Washington University
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Our fall Planet Forward Salon brought food expert and NPR correspondent Allison Aubrey to George Washington University to discuss methods of "Telling the Story of Wasted Food."
Tags: Food Waste, food waste prevention, food, methane digester, farm, farming, produce, reuse
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In this image from 2012, Brian Lawson and Kenesaw Burwell work on panels that the Energy Department is using to leverage a Power Purchase Agreement with Sun Edison and Xcel Energy. (Dennis Schroeder/U.S. Department of Energy)
Elon University
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Although our president’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord is a frustrating setback to environmental advocates, it does not come as a surprise.
Tags: climate change, Paris Climate Withdrawal, trump administration, #wearestillin
Workers carry buckets of produce on their shoulders. (Fair Food Program)
George Washington University
Friday, March 09, 2018
Farmworkers have suffered for too long as the backbone of an agricultural system that ignores them. It's time to include them in our debates about sustainable agriculture.
Tags: Fair Food Program, farmworkers, Immokalee, labor, reforms, agriculture, food, storyfest2018
A protein dense, carbon friendly lunch. (Photo by Katherine Baker)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Cornell University
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
A comparison between 5 meals shows that carbon emissions per calorie varies greatly for certain types of food. Not surprisingly, meat recipes hold the highest carbon-to-calorie ratio.
Tags: food, sustainable agriculture
A neighborhood street in Hampton, Virginia, following a flash flood in 2020. (Aileen Devlin/Virginia Sea Grant https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
George Washington University
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Climate Hits Home | On just one day in Virginia, I experienced a severe thunderstorm watch, a flash flood warning, a tornado warning, and a state of emergency. What is going on?
Tags: Climate Hits Home, Virginia, flash flood, Hurricane, natural disasters, sea level
George Washington University
Friday, November 05, 2021
Climate Hits Home | My friends and I escaped the 2020 summer blues for a weekend camping. Before heading out, we stopped at the grocery store for food essentials. When we arrived at the site, we couldn’t cook any of it.
Tags: climate change, forest fires, Colorado, Red Feather Lakes, burn bans
Thursday, October 25, 2012
In the outskirts of western Berlin, a princess is in trouble.
Tags: Germany, Garden, Urban, berlin, Volkswagen, Prinzessinnengarten, VW, Marco Clausen, Robert Shaw, Lena Haug
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
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Northwestern University
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Cristobella Durrette reports that data released last week shows that the U.S. is not on track to meet Biden's climate change goals, at the start of a year when his climate agenda will face multiple challenges.
Tags: biden, climate policy, global temperature, greenhouse emissions
(Photos by Katherine Baker/Columbia University)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Cornell University
Thursday, December 06, 2018
Next in our Tackling Food Waste series: Any food discussion inevitably involves GMOs. Columbia University's Katherine Baker spoke with an organic farmer and plant pathologist/geneticist to find out more.