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Meet Future Climate Leader: Kawika Pegram

Elemental Excelerator

2022 EDICT Intern Kawika Pegram cut his teeth on climate action as a community organizer. This sparked his determination to pursue real, lasting policy change. Striking both for their beauty — and for the grave and imminent threat posed by sea-level rise and coastal erosion. “At

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Des Moines, Iowa commits to 24/7 clean electricity

Renewable Energy World

Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.”

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

As governments continue to be intransigent, and the fossil fuel industry uses its influence to hamstring transformational climate policies, courts represent an important lever to bring about change. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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Climate Science And Financial risk: Forging A Path To More Climate-Resilient Businesses

Energy Innovation

Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. Both types of risk vary considerably based on business type, size, and location. Petabytes of tempting data.

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How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas

Grist

According to Molly Melius, program manager at Stanford University’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, seawalls can reduce beach width, decrease sand replenishment of beaches, and also accelerate erosion at the ends of seawalls. Alexandria Herr / Grist. This armor could actually be doing more harm than good.

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching?