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University of Minnesota
Friday, March 03, 2017
The Cheonggyecheon stream project in Seoul, South Korea, provides an exciting glimpse into the possibilities of future urban design involving improved green space in cities.
Tags: sustainability, Urban design, green infrastructure, environmental activism, storyfest2017
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | New York University
Thursday, May 21, 2020
The combination of experiences from environmental and engineering sciences, coupled with working in nature and water systems, left a permanent, venerable impact on my relationship with the natural world.
Tags: sailing, Community, green living, ethics, built environment, nature

A glimpse of volunteering at an environmental education center's edible garden in Carmel, California. They are taking a peek at some beautiful compost. (Image courtesy Kamryn You Mak/Middlebury College)
Middlebury College
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Dearest child,
Tags: storyfest2022, legacy pollution, next generation, future, student

Michael Doall holds a bag of oysters in Shinnecock Bay, Long Island in the fall of 2021. He was part of an oyster reef monitoring project that also involved setting up a predator exclusion experiment to evaluate the effects of predation on hard clam restoration efforts. (Courtesy of Michael Doall)
Georgetown University
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Through regenerative aquaculture, Michael Doall is using the ecosystem services of oysters and kelp to clean up our oceans and our plates.
Tags: aquaculture, oysters, kelp, science, Water, coastal, ocean acidification

The Rindge Dam in Malibu Canyon near Malibu in Southern California hasn't been functional for decades. (Churnice, CC BY-SA 3.0)
The George Washington University
Thursday, January 05, 2023
The decommissioned Rindge Dam in Malibu Creek poses a major threat to the region's steelhead trout population. Here's why it should be removed.
Tags: dam removal, steelhead trout, policy brief
Blogger at Our Hungry Food
Monday, January 19, 2015
Lots of students care about organic food, but very few dive into the facts behind it. Even less get their hands dirty, literally.
Tags: permaculture, organic food, organic farming, small farms
University of Connecticut
Thursday, March 24, 2022
In Port Chester, community members, myself included, are pleading with the Village to consider implementing mechanisms for environmentally- and community-conscious planning which have emerged in the last decades.
Tags: storyfest2022, sustainable development, home

Sun-dried candlefish, also known as hooligan, eulachon, and oolichan. (Brodie Guy/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))
George Washington University
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Today, petroleum is one of Alaska's main exports, but the use of oil in the region goes back thousands of years to the Tlingit people's harvesting of lipid-dense and flammable candlefish. Can this history illuminate a way to a green-fueled future?