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Planet Forward Intern/Marymount University
Thursday, October 08, 2015
The Hoover Dam, 80 years old this week, is both a hydroelectric plant and distributes water to the arid Southwest. What role is the drought playing in today's Hoover Dam and Lake Mead?
Tags: hydroelectric, Hydroelectric Power, Water
Northwestern University
Friday, August 10, 2018
The University of Michigan is investing millions to create technologies that capture carbon dioxide and turn it into products, though experts say some may not help reduce greenhouse gas permanently. Roxanne Liu and Minghe Hu report.
Tags: Carbon, carbon capture, CO2, emissions, business
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Friday, August 13, 2021
The three Fellows will create mini-documentaries on the frontlines of sustainability to be screened to an audience of academics, professionals, and students in the fields of science and communication at the 2022 Planet Forward Summit.
Tags: Comcast, NBCUniversal, Fellows, storytelling, sustainability, documentary

2021 Planet Forward Summit host Frank Sesno in conversation with NBC’s Today Show weatherman Al Roker.
George Washington University
Thursday, May 06, 2021
Here are five methods to make climate change more relevant to your audience from the guest speakers at the 2021 Planet Forward Summit.
Tags: climate, climate change, science reporting, Journalism, writing, pfsummit21
George Washington University
Monday, March 17, 2014
Amit Ronen of the GW Solar Institute talks about what it will take to make solar a viable option at scale, technologically and economically.
Tags: Solar Panels, photovoltaic, tax credits, photovoltaic panels, concentrated solar power
Founding Director, Planet Forward
Sunday, September 20, 2020
We are thrilled to announce a new media partnership with WNET Public Media Group to launch a monthly digital video series focusing on key issues challenging the planet.
Tags: peril and promise, WNET, global futures lab, youth climate movement, climate change, climate technology, earth uprising, activist
Planet Forward
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
A Q&A with our finalists in the 22nd Century category.
Tags: storyfest2017
In Navajo stories, the coyote is a trickster and a teacher that disobeys normal rules and conventional behaviors. (Nadira Mitchell)
Indigenous Correspondents Program | University of Arizona
Thursday, February 09, 2023
In this podcast, Nadira Mitchell, a Diné student studying natural resources and wildlife conservation, weaves an oral story about snails in the Sonoran desert, Diné culture, traditional ecological knowledge, and science.
Tags: Indigenous Knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, Diné Navajo, Navajo culture, Indigenous storytelling
Planet Forward
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Thank you for joining us at the 2017 Planet Forward Summit!
See our full 2017 Summit report!

JoRee LaFrance and Alexander Cotnoir, making the Indigenous Correspondents Program announcement at the 2022 Planet Forward Summit in April, on stage with Frank Sesno. (PlanetForward.org)
Planet Forward
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Planet Forward’s Senior Editor and Education Lead Lisa Palmer talks to Alexander Cotnoir and JoRee LaFrance about the Indigenous Correspondents Program and the future they envision for the program.