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Teacher feedback

Andrew Wells (NEST+m high school on the lower east side) Aida Rosenbaum (Bronx Latin) Adam Zaid (Queens School of Inquiry) Matt Sarker (Bronx Science) Letters of support…

Energetic links

Photo: Yale students play eight simultaneous games of Energetic in a tournament, November 15, 2019 “I kept thinking, ‘Oh, they thought of that? Wow, they…

Energetic teachers and students

Accurate information about energy is important. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly and for that to happen,…

The Green New Deal is the real deal

Like the original New Deal, the Green New Deal is extremely wide-ranging. It addresses agriculture, energy, transportation, economic security, the environment, and the entire social sphere besides.

Carbon, the city, & Local Law 97

City Atlas plans for 2019 were sketched out during our December 2018 testimony to the NYC Council on Local Law 97. While praising the decarbonization…

Teaching low-carbon living

Law professor Karl Coplan reached the Pacific in June, 2019, after riding his bike from the East Coast. And now he’s written a book about how to live extremely well, and on a tiny footprint.

Chile: a case study in the tension between economics, ecology, and democracy

Last spring, Isadora Nogueira, Barnard college senior and City Atlas intern, studied at the University of Santiago. This summer, Isadora explained to us Chile’s contradictions…

V. Ramanathan’s Lecture “Climate Change Morphing Into an Existential Threat”

Veerabhadran Ramanathan of Scripps Institute University of California San Diego Speaking at Creighton University, February 21, 2018 [see full video here] Introductory remarks by Professor…