Thoughts on Wildfires From a Very Smoky Portland On Wednesday night I was supposed to meet a girlfriend for a drink at an outside pop-up bar in our neighborhood. Since moving back to Por...
How Wildfires are Linked to Climate Change - and What That Means for Our Future For over a week, wildfires have raged along the Western Coast of the United States, causing mass evacuations and mass stay-indoors orders...
Scooters: Sidewalk Litter or Future of Mobility? Last night a classmate of mine said that scooters are littered around his neighborhood. This came just an hour after another classmate of...
Congestion Pricing: Freeing the Streets For Those Who Need it Most Nearly a year ago my fiance and I took the train up to New York City to explore Manhattan and Brooklyn for a long weekend. It was my firs...
Active Transit Solutions for the Last Mile Problem One of the great things about city life is how close you are to everything and everyone else. In many cities, most people can get by with...
Save Our Seas: Climate Change Is Already Impacting Oceans Five companies were recently approved to begin seismic airgun blasting to find oil under the Atlantic Ocean between Delaware and Florida....
The Case for Considering Managed Retreat in the Face of Sea Level Rise The challenge of how to adapt to sea level rise is especially difficult, given the differences across urban areas in how sea level rise w...
Global Steps to Address the Climate Crisis: Install Renewable Energy in Developing Countries The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent Special Report in October 2018 highlighted the nee...
Carbon Pricing and the Potential of a Global Climate Club I recently read a book, The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen, that talks quite a lot about carbon. The amount of carbon dioxide that wa...
Affordable Housing Solutions: ADUs Almost every city in America right now is pushing to create more affordable housing. Rightly so, too, as the National Low Income Housing ...
