“For a meaningful and productive conversation it is critical to see these issues—opposition to use of public lands versus opposition to large-scale solar—as distinct," Dustin Mulvaney writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
J. Morgan Grove, Nicole Heller, Sarah Reed and Christine Wilkinson contributed to this text advancing justice-centered biodiversity conservation in cities and demonstrating the necessity of, and tools for, simultaneously addressing social inequities and biodiversity conservation.
Through community-based research with organizations that work to “hoʻomomona hou i ka ʻāina,” or “restore that which feeds back to abundance,” Switzer Fellow Aja Grande has embarked on a healing journey of her own.
As Interim Manager, Doug will lead the ReAL Edgemere Community Land Trust through the process of designing flood-resilient coastal infrastructure and accessible open space to benefit the community and environment of Edgemere.
Ariane de Bremond's international research program that focuses on land use for agriculture and other purposes amid environmental change moved headquarters to the University of Maryland.
The Plan aims to provide data-driven solutions and priorities for conserving natural resources within the Texas Hill Country and includes a written report, maps, and recommendations for a path forward.
Nākoa is determined to address Hawaiʻi’s food insecurity and perpetuate Hawaiian knowledge to restore a state of ʻāina momona (abundance). He investigates how former sugarcane fields in Hawaiʻi could be managed to meet local sustainability goals.
Jonathan Likeke Scheuer hopes that the conversation will now move to a “much more productive place” that considered “actual barriers” to affordable housing rather targeting the LUC’s oversight.
Abstract: Wildly destructive fires, wind driven through unmanaged and untended lands, take lives and homes and the solace of familiar places. Ash blankets the remains, trauma takes hold, but even when the smoke clears and communities begin...
Dustin Mulvaney was featured in a May 2023 KSQD Sustainability Now! episode on the social and ecological impacts of large solar farms in the desert and whether they can contribute to a “just energy transition”. Listen here