The Texas Tax
The Lone Star State fired a shot at banks pursuing ESG policies. Local taxpayers are taking the hit.
Extreme Avoidance
A future of abundant, affordable, sustainable energy is achievable—if politics doesn’t stand in the way.
Sea Stewards
In a pair of new books, on coral reefs and sperm whales, two impassioned ocean lovers offer contrasting visions of how to safeguard its splendors.
Water Everywhere, For Everyone
Water Center focuses on equity.
Data Defenders
Data Refuge project preserves federal data on climate change.
Projecting the Deluge
Albert Slap C’71 and Robert Hubbell W’70 predict flood risk.
The Waymaker
Andy Strauss has spent 25 years preserving land and creating trails to restore natural beauty to blighted landscapes. Now he has a vision for the hardscrabble coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania.
The Long View of Shifting Sea Levels
Penn researchers confirm rising sea levels
The Park of a Thousand Pieces
Penn Praxis has a plan for adding 500 acres of open green space to Philadelphia in the next four years. Their approach, informed by novel research by Penn scholars in areas ranging from real-estate economics to criminology, is a new way of imagining urban parkland.
Historian of Collapse Eyes the Present Day
Collapse author: “Take environmental problems seriously.”
Smart Water
Aakash Mathur C’09 W’09 and Jay Parekh EAS’09
Greener Green
Window, May|Jun 2010
Granting Green
First round of “green grants” announced
Painting a Message of Melting
Diane Burko GFA’69
Food for Thought (and More)
From College Hall: Serving up a new era of environmental responsibility.
There’s a Future in (Recovering) Plastics
Doug Woodring WG’95