Urban Development
A Tree Grows in Chula Vista
Chula Vista, California, is on the leading edge of climate adaptation planning at the community level.
Tag: Environmental Sustainability
Food
Regionalizing US Food Systems
Exploring the role of regional models—takeaways from the University of Vermont’s first-ever food systems summit.
Review
Social Innovations
Climate Science as Culture War
The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology.
Environment
Prairie Portfolio
Economists are using a tool familiar to the financial industry to analyze climate change outcomes for conservationists.
Government
Holding the Line in Oregon
Oregon’s land-use policies have preserved farmland and led to smart urban growth.
Environment
Disadvantaged Populations Feel the Heat
The connection between environmental quality and the predicament of disadvantaged populations is coming into ever-sharper relief.
Podcast
Global Issues
Environmental Sustainability Through Recycling
Kate White shares research about how positive and negative messages around recycling influence people’s behavior.
Podcast
Energy
Food, Water, and Energy
In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shares her insight on the necessary steps to sustainably feed the nine billion people that will be living on our planet by 2050.
Global Issues
Rio+20: Is a $513 Billion Down Payment Enough?
Advances in reducing poverty, environmental protection, and other global issues threaten the status quo—a report from Rio+20.