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…
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.
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…
The conscience of a graphic novelist
Given the imperative of fast action on climate, 2018 must be a year that prioritizes decisions rather than simply adds more detail to a story…
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.
Behind the scenes of the plan to save the planet
“Me? I’m a filmmaker, so I’m not going to invent the next battery. What can I do? Well, I can make a web-series about this.”
Can positive thinking be the key to our big CO2 fix?
Public opinion lags scientific understanding of climate, and so our political system doesn’t move fast enough. A new book offers ideas to change that around.
Here Comes Solar: residential solar comes to NYC
Will solar panels soon become as iconic to New York’s rooftops as the ubiquitous water tower?
Letter from China
A deadline for human beings? I bet you have no idea how much trash you will throw away every day, right? Neither did I and…
Bicycling around a warming globe
Part epic journey, part field research: David Kroodsma and Lindsey Fransen bicycled across Asia researching climate. It turns out that low carbon travel is possible with time and strong legs, and probably a much better way to see things.
New York’s lead role in solving for the future
A panel at Columbia looked at how New York is taking a leading role in how cities both cope with, and solve, the planetary challenge of climate change.
Joel Towers
“We’re educating students who will go out into the world and have 60 years or more of productive and engaged life. What is the world going to be like 60 years from now?”
A new book about what we don’t know
Gernot Wagner is an economist who focuses on what he doesn’t know. Tail events, the black swans, the unknown unknowns. The future.
Using geology to fix the atmosphere
What if the key to halting climate change lay not in the atmosphere above our heads, but in the rock beneath our feet?
Reflections on the People’s Climate March
Four City Atlas interns and the editor reflect on their experiences at the People’s Climate March.