Climate Change

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Wheeler publishes on impacts of alternative patterns of urbanization on GHG emissions in an agricultural county

Different patterns of urban development may have widely varying long-term effects on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To investigate such effects, we used UPlan geographic information system–based software to model three 2050 urban-growth scenarios for Yolo County, a predominantly agricultural area near Sacramento, Califor- nia. Two scenarios correspond to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s A2 and B1 storylines.
February 17, 2014
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Osborne talk at Yale on video

February 3, 2014
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Chen quoted on pressures on agricultural land in China

Economic factors within China are also prompting the government to look outside the country for agricultural land. Jia-Ching Chen, a research fellow at Brown University who studies the tensions between urbanization and rural land use in...
January 30, 2014
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Culverts and Climate Adaptation in the Lake Champlain Basin

In 2012, through a Switzer Leadership Grant, I had the opportunity to join the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy to help advance work in freshwater conservation and climate change adaptation in the bi-national Lake Champlain Basin.
January 30, 2014
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Wisland says solar doing its job in California, state to install batteries to store energy

Solar power is growing so fast in California — with installations by customers increasing tenfold since 2006 — that it is turning the state’s power system upside down.
January 28, 2014
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Stop the Leaks Campaign

Clean Air Task Force is launching a new campaign called Stop the Leaks. This campaign focuses on building public awareness and political will to press for new regulations to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. Methane...
January 23, 2014
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Supporting Wetlands Managers

The Association of State Wetland Managers received a $40,000 Leadership grant to hire Dr. Brenda Zollitsch in a new staff position of Policy Analyst. Brenda, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of...
January 22, 2014
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Eldering says we are still on 'business-as-usual' path with CO2

"Reaching 400pm is a stark reminder that the world is still not on a track to limit CO2 emissions and therefore climate impacts. We're still on the 'business-as-usual' path, and adding more and more CO2, which will impact the generations ahead of us. Passing this mark should motivate us to advocate for focused efforts to reduce emissions across the globe." Read more quotes from NASA scientists on the 400 ppm carbon milestone
January 22, 2014
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Grumet welcomes Quadrennial Energy Review

Bipartisan Policy Center President Jason Grumet and other members of the Washington think tank welcomed a plan for a federal energy review. "It's good to have a plan but what really matters is execution," Grumet said Thursday, responding to a White House announcement that it had begun its Quadrennial Energy Review. "Having all of the key agencies involved in a process like the QER increases the likelihood that the plan will lead to coordinated action," Grumet said.
January 20, 2014
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Mulvaney edits multimedia Green Atlas

This reference resource, in atlas format, is an online-only compendium of maps and data sets accompanied by multimedia elements designed to illustrate key concepts in green issues and environmentalism graphically and interactively. Topics for the maps presented in this work were selected from articles in the 12-volume SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future. Each map includes links to one or more of the series articles. Maps include interactive components, with clickable icons to deliver the data and statistics that make up each map.
January 16, 2014