Alice Larkin
“One of my main areas that I’ve focused on for years is just the kind of timeframe to change to make the changes and how that needs to be really rapid. You can’t just rely on huge infrastructure projects because they take ages.”
Students in South Carolina race to build a zero carbon NYC
Dr. Jennifer Bradham teaches climate change and energy in South Carolina.
City-scale climate education for Paris
Julien Dossier of the consulting firm Quattrolibri, Raphael Menard of the engineering firm Elioth, and their supporting team are authors of the 2017 sustainability plan…
We turned the future of New York City into a board game
“I am evangelizing about the game to fellow faculty at Vanderbilt.” Jonathan Gilligan, Vanderbilt University “Energetic is an invaluable energy policy tool for understanding the…
Peter Kalmus
Peter Kalmus has reduced his personal carbon emissions from roughly 20 tons to 2, and he’s written a book about what he’s learned.
Sidewalk Labs launches Link, more to come
Can a new initiative from Daniel Doctoroff and Google advance the civic conversation on climate change?
An energy town hall on the Upper East Side
The most modern idea in architecture is the Passive House, which only needs a tiny amount of heating and cooling as compared to a conventional structure. We learned more at a town hall on energy.
Driving an electric car in NYC
The doors are funny and the accelerator pedal too, but driving a BMW i3 made tree counting more fun.
Beginning the Baykeeper
In recent years, science and policy have been catching up with Andrew Willner’s vision for a sustainable harbor.
The Natural History Museum
“Museums are leaders, and we’re asking them to demonstrate their leadership.”
More scenes from the plan to save the planet
Kaia Rose’s episodic documentary is an easily understood guide to the story of the century.
Walter Meyer
The Power Rockaways Resilience team developed cultural knowledge so valuable that it led to an award from the White House.
Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Herskovitz is a Hollywood producer, director and screenwriter who has also served as president of the Producers Guild of America (2006 – 2010). His credits include films such as “Traffic,” “The Last Samurai,” and “Blood Diamond.”
British scientist gives best human rights talk of the year
“This is not about just incremental change. This is about whole system change. And this applies to all of us, whatever sphere of influence we have.”
Shared renewables come to New York
In New York City, most of us live in apartments, making it impossible to power our homes from our own set of solar panels. But that’s about to change.
Dematerializing the car
Ecologist Eric Sanderson has written a carefully detailed and beautifully designed book on the need to redesign society without cars. Projjal Dutta, Director of Sustainability for the MTA,…
Fifty Years of Landmarks
New York’s Landmarks Law preserves not only the culture of the past, but the energy put into buildings of the past.
The great nuclear hope returns
One puzzle on which top experts disagree is the role of nuclear power in providing a solution to climate change.