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  • 2/29/24 – Why didn’t Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv go Solar?

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    Solar energy is one of the most salient ways one can reduce one’s carbon footprint and often saves money on electric utility bills. However, access to solar panels is unevenly distributed by race, even for households with similar income. According to a 2019 Nature Sustainability study by University of California-Berkeley researchers, Black- and Hispanic-majority census tracts show significantly fewer…

  • 1/31/24 – A Clear Skies Playbook

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    Reproduced from medium.com Almost four years ago to the date, the world went through an unintentional experiment in reducing air pollution with the covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. Almost overnight, vehicle and air traffic reduced worldwide, population movements stopped, economic activity slowed, and scenes like the ones below were seen across the world. Megacities across the world,…

  • 11/23/23 – A Prescription for Climate Anxiety

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    Reproduced from medium.com This essay is for current (and lifelong) students seeking an antidote to climate anxiety, defined as: ‘Climate anxiety is fundamentally distress about climate change and its impacts on the landscape and human existence. That can manifest as intrusive thoughts or feelings of distress about future disasters or the long-term future of human…

  • 3/12/23 – Uranium vs. Thorium: Exploring The Road Less Traveled to Nuclear Power

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    Reproduced from medium.com While engineering for Mars and space exploration could spur significant advances in science and technology in a techno-utopian world, it’s human nature to prioritize basic needs like security before exploration and conflict is an eternal part of the human condition. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense’s budget was $344 billion and…

  • 6/19/17 – How to Pass a Carbon Fee & Dividend Bill in the U.S. House of Representatives

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    Reproduced from medium.com When the Trump Administration withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a list of 323 cities (and growing) joined the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda. These cities have pledged to meet their local climate action goals, create additional action plans to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming target described in the Paris Agreement,…

  • 6/11/17 – Unlock Climate Consensus with Clean Energy — Not Climate Science

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    Reproduced from medium.com This blog post is the 2nd part of a series focused on arguments and strategies to achieve climate policy consensus in the United States. Part I introduces the author and advocates for a national Carbon Dividend. Statistics on U.S. views of climate change are largely drawn from the Pew Center’s research on climate politics. There…

  • 6/2/17 – A Call for a National Carbon Dividend

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    Reproduced from medium.com I’ve sent a letter similar to the one below to my Senators and Congressional representative. If you also feel strongly that it is time to take action on climate change, share your story on the human cost of climate change and write or call your Congressional Representatives in the House or the Senate in support of…