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Planet Forward Advisory Council
Planet Forward Staff
Planet Forward
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Bruce Brandfon - Council Chair
Navigating climate change through song: A Q&A with Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall
A man with dark blonde hair in a pale green polo and green pants plays guitar while in a canoe in a narrow body of water surrounded by lush green trees and a cloudy blue sky.

From "Orange" Acoustic Music Video (Photo courtesy Pinegrove)
Ryan Bieber
Planet Forward Correspondent | Ithaca College
Friday, January 28, 2022
Pinegrove's frontman walked me through his songwriting process and inspiration behind the album. He also gave insight on how he incorporates activism in his daily life and how he copes with the current state of climate change.
Tags: Pinegrove, Evan Stephens Hall, storytelling, Activism, climate change, art, storyfest2022
Music, mobilizing, and making a living on a living planet
Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington.

Labor activists join environmentalists wearing turtle costumes at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington. (Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives, Item 175623)
Pace Schwarz
Georgetown University
Monday, September 12, 2022
I interview labor and environmental activist Joe Uehlein about the historic intersections between those two activist movements and how he tells those stories in his music.
Tags: labor, union, unions, music, worker, workers, Green New Deal
Rethinking sustainable agriculture

In mid-August, the sunflowers are nearly ready for harvest at Schreiner Farms in Woodland, Calif. (Dani Huffman/Kenyon College)
Dani Huffman
Kenyon College
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Next in our Tackling Food Waste series: Kenyon College student farmer Dani Huffman looks at the pros and cons of traditional and organic farming - and the issue of sustainable agriculture. Turns out it isn't as black and white as it seems.
Tags: woodland, davis, pfincali, agriculture, food, gmo, GM, plant breeding, field research, storyfest2019
Voluntary offsetting in air travel: A carbon footprint fix?
A plane wing in flight from the vantage point of a plane passenger.

(Photo by Julia MacCary)
Medill News Service
Northwestern University
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
As reported by Julia MacCary, carbon offsets, monetary investments into global projects that reduce carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to counterbalance one’s emissions, have grown in popularity. But do they stand up to scrutiny?
Tags: transportation, Carbon Offsets, aviation, Business & Economics, biofuel, storyfest2022
With Corn Belt inching north, farm diversification gains momentum
A man and a woman stand at the doorway of a wooden farmhouse. Lush green trees frame both sides of the house.

Jordan Welch talks to her grandfather Charlie Payne on July 20 in Concordia. Charlie Payne purchased the Payne family’s land more than 60 years ago, and he still helps out in an advisory capacity on the farm. (Jia Wu/Columbia Missourian)
Adam Goldstein
University of Missouri
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Climate change is redrawing the agricultural map of the United States. As corn becomes less economically viable with changing Midwestern weather patterns, farmers look to a more diverse future.
Tags: climate smart agriculture, climate change, Midwest, conventional farming, corn, soy, sheep, chestnuts, regenerative agriculture

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