“Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability”
Can global warming really be stopped? A new report from 50 researchers and scholars from across the University of California system says yes—in part by using scalable lessons learned from the system’s own pledge to go carbon-neutral by 2025. Read more about the report, on which I was senior editor, here.
“City Nature”
Nature is unevenly distributed in and across cities despite the fact that much else about cities scales with size. The City Nature project combines spatial analysis of parks and other natural areas in cities with innovative mining of planning document text, photographs, social media and published historical narratives to explore why. Visit the City Nature website.
“Crowdsourcing for the Humanities: Year of the Bay”
A large collaborative project to crowd-source a new, public environmental history of the Bay Area with libraries, museums, archives, nonprofit organizations, scholars, researchers, the media, and the public during the Year of Bay in 2013. Visit the Year of the Bay website.