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Planet Forward
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
The University of California, Berkeley aims to foster a culture of sustainability on campus and around the world.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Future carbon emissions will not come primarily from the currently industrialized world, but from the emerging economies, especially China.
Tags: China, global warming, GHG, Copenhagen, climate summit, greenhouse gas, Muller
UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group
Monday, March 30, 2015
Feeling hungry on your run? Stop and pick some oxalis, the pretty yellow flowers with green clover-shaped leaves, growing along the sidewalk for a quick energy boost.
Tags: weeds, urban farming, foraging
Planet Forward Correspondent | Georgetown University
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
Anand Varma blew us away with stories that were both bizarre and beautiful, and shared how biology and photography go hand-in-hand.
Tags: summit2018, pfsummit18, national geographic, photography, perspective
Graphics and photos courtesy of Brandon Wood.
UC Berkeley
Monday, February 26, 2018
Berkeley grad students are creating and implementing consolidated guidelines for environmental groups based on successful action strategies.
Tags: action, Activism, earth, climate action, art activism, storyfest2018
Here, a citizen scientist does sampling in Rocky Mountain National Park. (National Park Service)
UC Berkeley
Monday, August 06, 2018
Two scientific storytellers explain the communication strategies they use and talk about what the consequences of ineffective communication are in the modern era.
Tags: science communication, scientists, women scientists, female scientists, data, Journalism, communication, storytelling, environmental storytelling
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Friday, March 03, 2017
Biointensive farming is a strategy of cultivating crops that focuses on producing the most output with minimum input. The objective is to use less water, less energy, and less land, to produce large yields of crops.
Tags: biointensive farming, nicaragua, boaco, food, agriculture, sustainability, Water, storyfest2017
Purin Phanichphant uses interactive art to personalize the issue of climate change for viewers and create a lasting impact in their lives.
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Interactive artist Purin Phanichphant shows through his work that the way we communicate ideas is critical to creating an impact.
Tags: climate change, art, innovation, design, art activism, storyfest2018
Mountains near Glacier Bay National Park in southern Alaska. (Photos by Katherine Baker/Columbia University)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | Cornell University
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Next in our Alaska series: Climate change isn’t just seen – it’s felt. Weather and temperature fluctuations aside, many experience health impacts caused or exacerbated by climate change.
Tags: Storyfest 2018, storyfest winner, Alaska, Lindblad Expeditions, health, climate change
(Photo by Cate Twining-Ward)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Here are five easy, innovative, and free ways that students can reduce their impact on the environment right now, by using the technology that is at their fingertips.