Julien Dossier
JULIEN DOSSIER What happens if, say the president of France is elected and has a mandate to cut carbon emissions by twenty percent in five…
JULIEN DOSSIER What happens if, say the president of France is elected and has a mandate to cut carbon emissions by twenty percent in five…
REBECCA WILLIS When politics becomes really dysfunctional, the temptation is to just be quite a cynical realist and say, That’s just how the world is…
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,…
“By the time you folk have finished university, and are maybe three or four years into your first job, that 10 years that has been spoken about is gone. So there needs to be a space where people like yourselves can feel safe enough to talk about what your fears and hopes are for the future.”
“It’s important that high school students and even younger than high school students understand what exactly is happening to the planet they’re living on.”
“If I go chronologically, it actually starts with a personal story. So in 2012, I had a beer with my friend Charlie…”
“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.”
JEFF BERARDELLI: So when you take a long term drought due to climate change–mostly due to climate change, not all of it–and then you take…
RADLEY HORTON: If we look at other things that kill far more people like having heart disease, or, you know, having really bad asthma,…
“We calculated that 60 to 70% of the Finnish emissions profile is connected to households. How they live, how they heat their home, for example. With that kind of profile, we get about 10 tonnes per person on the average in Finland. That should drop to 2.5 tonnes within 10 years.”
The New York Society for Ethical Culture is a humanist community that has been dedicated to social justice and education since its founding in 1876.…
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.
Chinatown was hurt during Hurricane Sandy, with many non-English speaking elderly stranded in high rises without water, lights, heat, or elevators. What future plans for the historic neighborhood are best, as projections for sea level rise increase?
In recent years, science and policy have been catching up with Andrew Willner’s vision for a sustainable harbor.
“Museums are leaders, and we’re asking them to demonstrate their leadership.”
The Power Rockaways Resilience team developed cultural knowledge so valuable that it led to an award from the White House.
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.”
“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.”