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Call for Nominations: ESA Regional Policy Award

ESA

Do you know someone who has made positive efforts toward environmental sustainability in the Long Beach, California region? ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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A Curious Catalyst for Creativity in Social-Ecological Research

HumanNature

2011, Provenza, Pringle et al. 2014, Lein 2018, Zabala, Sandbrook et al. 2018, Rost 2021). 2014, Lein 2018). Derner (2011). ” Environmental Science & Policy 5 (1): 55-68. George; Lopez-Hoffman, Laura (2018). ” Greenfield MA: Social and Environmental Research Institute 54 : 1-45.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Today the Flood Management Program combines the efforts of more than 15 City agencies as well as state and federal partners, and it is led by the City’s Floodplain Manager who was hired in 2018. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

Progress in Planning 75 , 53–107 (2011). World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision, online edition. Department of Economic and Social Affairs PD New York, NY, 2018). Environmental Science & Policy 13 , 785–792 (2010). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 , 72–77 (2013). Houghton, R.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] 8] The hardening required of nuclear plants first in response to 9/11 and then in response to the loss of Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 has further ensured their contribution to reliability, resiliency, and affordability. [9]

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

I call it a one-time disturbance,” said Tim Mihuc, a professor of environmental science at SUNY Plattsburgh. Contractor Caldwell Marine used a special barge to lay electric cable under Lake Champlain for a project connecting Plattsburgh, New York, to Vermont in 2018. Then the boats will be gone. “I Photo by Caldwell Marine.