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A hoop house composed with plastic sheeting and tubes provides cover for a raised garden in Washington, DC. (Lance Cheung/USDA (Public Domain Mark 1.0))
University of Maryland
Thursday, March 24, 2022
University of Maryland international Ph.D. student Krisztina Christmon launched her award-winning idea of repurposing farm plastic as part of a university innovation challenge in 2020. One year later, she serves as CEO of Repurpose Farm Plastic LLC.
Tags: storyfest2022, plastic, agriculture, innovation
GWU School of Media and Public Affairs
Monday, May 05, 2014
Tara Sonenshine announces the Planet Forward University Consortium and the launch of Feeding the Planet Year 2.
Tags: feeding the planet
Monday, July 26, 2010
Well, I guess the Department of Interior can't be TOO mad at BP. They destroy the Gulf and what does our brilliant government do? Reward them with tax breaks to build an environmentally unfriendly wind farm. More here:
An aerial view of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (U.S. Department of Energy)
The University of the South
Sunday, March 03, 2019
Post-doctoral scientist Neil Williams and his team discover an entirely new chemical mechanism for CO2 sequestration using household humidifiers and hotdog cookers.
Tags: Carbon, CO2, emissions, sequestration, scrubbing, chemical engineering, oak ridge. storyfest2019
Protesters at a 2019 climate march in Washington, D.C. (Victoria Middleton/Planet Forward)
Digital Editor, Planet Forward
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
The Road to COP26 | You often hear conversations about how to convert climate change deniers into science believers. Yet I don’t see a cultural struggle for “hearts and minds,” but a material struggle for power.
Tags: cop26, climate change, Climate Change Agreement, glasgow, leadership, climate policy, youth
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Flooding took over the northeast after Tropical Storm Ida in early September 2021. These floodwaters are in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia's neighbor to the northwest. (Michael M Stokes/Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0)
George Washington University
Sunday, November 07, 2021
Climate Hits Home | Philadelphia's sewage system and water infrastructure are being stressed by climate change and it's leading to a rather gross — and dangerous — situation.
Tags: Philadelphia, sewage, combined sewer system, combined sewer overflow, hurricane ida
A historical photograph of the West Calumet Housing Complex provided by the East Chicago Public Library for the Northwest Indiana Times.
Northwestern University
Monday, January 08, 2018
High lead and arsenic contamination has been plaguing East Chicago, Indiana, residential areas since at least the 1980s. Read about residents who have been affected by this crisis and their fight for recovery.
Tags: epa, superfund, East Chicago, lead, clean water, contaminated water
Maya van Rossum, shown here at an event in 2014, recently released a new book called “Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment.” (Chesapeake Climate/Creative Commons)
State University College at Buffalo
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Maya van Rossum has been the leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994. Planet Forward sat down with her to discuss her new book, “Green Amendment.”
Tags: constitution, law, Policy, politics, book, environmental law, health, rights, expert voices
Public and private-sector agencies have spent decades and millions of dollars for research and recovery to bring the Mexican gray wolf back from the brink of extinction. And those efforts appear to be paying off. (Michael Hannan/Cronkite News)
Arizona State University
Friday, April 02, 2021
Government agencies, including the Arizona Game & Fish Department, and the private Endangered Wolf Center in Missouri have invested millions of dollars and decades worth of research to save the Mexican wolf from extinction.
Tags: Biodiversity, endangered species, native species, research, storyfest2021
Like many large corporations, Google has made numerous claims about their environmental sustainability and mitigation efforts. (geralt/Pixabay)
Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Like many corporations, Google has made numerous claims about their environmental sustainability and mitigation efforts. In order to examine their validity, I interviewed a current Google employee about this topic and conducted my own research.