For many retirees and other residents, Florida’s inland communities serve as a relaxing home to enjoy fishing and boating in the picturesque rivers and lakes located in the area. These waterways, however, are increasingly difficultContinue reading
Food Security and Women’s Empowerment
At the intersection of climate change and public health lies food security, and once political and social climates are taken into account, food security reveals itself to be an issue of justice and women’s empowerment.Continue reading
The United States Needs a Market-Based Climate Mitigation Strategy
The United States government should legislate and enforce a market-based climate mitigation strategy. The strategies I recommend are either cap-and-trade or a carbon tax and dividend. The goal of both systems is to reduce greenhouseContinue reading
Continue Aggressive Air Pollution Reduction
In 1948, a small town disaster suddenly brought a silent killer loudly onto the national scene. A zinc plant had emitted enough toxic smoke to kill twenty residents of Donora, Pennsylvania[1]. Air quality in theContinue reading
Water Access and Social Justice in the United States
What do you do when you don’t have any water to wash, cook, or clean with? Fifteen million Americans faced that problem in 2016 when they fell behind on their water bills and had theirContinue reading
Managing Melting Permafrost: Protecting communities and ecosystems
For years, the town of Iñupiat town of Shishmaref, located on a small barrier island off the coast of the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska, faced severe erosion, sometimes losing large areas of land toContinue reading
Plastic Straws and Sea Turtles
I spent my summers in high school working as a Sea Turtle Camp Counselor for the Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s children’s camp in Jupiter, Florida. The Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a sea turtle hospital. There, staffContinue reading
The case for state solar feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) in the USA
The importance of solar energy Solar energy is the fastest growing source of energy, but we need more policy incentives to encourage growth. The world’s solar energy capacity from rooftop panels and solar parks grewContinue reading
North Carolina’s energy future: offshore wind
The climate crisis is upon us. We are witnessing the impacts across North Carolina including increases in flooding, extreme heat, wildfire risk, and hurricane severity[i]. Not only do these changes cause public health and environmentalContinue reading
Geoengineering and Climate Change Mitigation
There is no single “solution” to end climate change and reverse global warming. Ideally, we need to rethink global goals, we need to move past sustainability, towards regeneration and along the way reverse global warming.Continue reading