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Centralia, an abandoned mining town in Pennsylvania in which a mine fire has been burning for 50 years. Pennsylvania has $5 billion in unfunded abandoned mine land liabilities. (Doug Kerr/Flickr)
Northwestern University
Friday, August 25, 2017
A proposal to immediately unlock $1 billion set aside to restore abandoned mine lands in the future has the support of congressional leaders, but lawmakers in key states are skeptical.
Tags: restoration, redevelopment, built environment, pollution
Personal Food Computer (PFC) v2.0 alpha (2016). (Photo courtesy of Open Agriculture Initiative, MIT Media Lab)
SUNY ESF
Thursday, February 09, 2017
MIT’s Open Agriculture Initiative is drawing on the very societal changes that have distanced average citizens from traditional agriculture to close the gap in knowledge and control what we eat.
Tags: urban agriculture, sustainable agriculture, Efficient Food Production, food, food transport, storyfest2017
Planet Forward
Thursday, March 30, 2017
A Q&A with our finalists in the Innovator category.
Tags: storyfest2017
In Pittsburgh, which famously was compared to Paris in President Trump's Paris Accord withdrawal speech, protesters gather weekly to share their views with Sen. Pat Toomey. On March 3 — even before the withdrawal announcement — their focus was the environment. (Mark Dixon/Blue Lens via Flickr)
SUNY Environmental Science & Forestry
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
After Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement, now what? What should Americans with a sense of concern and responsibility for global climate outcomes be focusing on?
Tags: expert voices, trump administration, climate change, Climate Change Agreement, Paris Climate Withdrawal, Paris, #wearestillin
(Nate Mach/University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Planet Forward Correspondent | University of Wisconsin - Madison
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
A Madison, Wisconsin-based dream of a hydroponics-driven future: How one student organization hopes to inspire others to embrace clean, sustainable urban agriculture.
Tags: urban agriculture, sustainable agriculture, Hydroponics, food deserts, food insecurity, grassroots, urban farming, pfcorrespondent, storyfest2019
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured these images of several fires burning in the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso on August 11 and August 13, 2019. (NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)
Cal State LA
Thursday, September 19, 2019
A longtime opponent of environmental advocacy, the personal politics of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro have made him an international liability.
Tags: bolsonaro, brazil, Amazon, politics, Government, rainforest, amazon fires, opinion, op-ed, storyfest2020
Planet Forward, GWU School of Media and Public Affairs
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Is the roof of a bus prime space for a garden? Can a fleet of them bring green space to a city? One entrepreneur says "yes."
Tags: urban gardening, public transportation, Green Public Transit, food truck
Shoreline cliffs at Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia. (Photos by Joshua Rosenstein/Middlebury College)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Middlebury College
Monday, October 17, 2022
Royal National Park provides a compelling example of how national parks around the world can better preserve Indigenous cultures.
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The south end of Otisco Lake, looking north on September 10, 2022. (Adam McIntyre)
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Zebra muscles are an invasive species that pose many risks for the ecological health of Otisco Lake in upstate New York, but they might be here to stay.
Tags: Oticso lake, Zebra muscles, Syracuse, Onondaga County
(Stephen Leonardi/Unsplash License)
The Greenzine
Monday, January 09, 2023
A historical account of the conflicts surrounding animal agriculture, endangered species, and Indigenous rights at the Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California.