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
Plastic Ocean
In August of 2015, a heart-wrenching video of a sea turtle suffering through the removal of a plastic straw from its nostrils went viral. Whether or not you have seen this video, its effects haveContinue reading
Fighting Climate Change at the Local Level
Climate scientists and decision-makers at all levels of government around the world agree on this – any approach to tackle climate change must be multi-faceted, with support from the local, state, and federal levels. CitiesContinue reading
Putting a Price Tag on The Environment: Air Pollution Deregulation
In the early 1990’s, the Clean Air Act provided the first steps prior to regulating air toxics emissions as a result of power plants in the United States. For many years, the EPA and CongressContinue reading
Invasive Species: Biting Back
The world’s aquatic ecosystems are suffering from overfishing. Simply put, overfishing occurs when fish are caught faster than they can reproduce and replenish their populations. While total global catch from wild fish stocks has leveledContinue reading
Prioritizing Carbon Offsets
Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas and is the leading pollutant in the atmosphere, causing our Earth’s natural greenhouse effect to intensify and lead to steadily increasing atmospheric temperatures.[1] Before our geologic ageContinue reading