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Sustainability Insights

• Photo: Leffler, Warren K, photographer. President Jimmy Carter speaking in front of solar panels placed on the West Wing roof of the White House, announcing his solar energy policy / WKL. Washington D.C, June 20, 1979. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021637592/.

October 29, 2024

The Energy Transition Is Inevitable, Regardless of Election Outcome

Ben Furnas

Panorama view of New York city eith statue of liberty tomorrow morning at sunrise. View from Staten Island. (iStock)

September 29, 2024

Ben Furnas Reflects on Climate Week NYC

View of the Eiffel Tower with the Olympics rings from the other bank of the Seine river with boats at the docks and in the water, Paris, France. (iStock)

August 15, 2024

Solving Olympic-sized Global Water Challenges

Illustration of DNA double helix floating above water

July 2, 2024

Environmental DNA for Better Biological Monitoring and Ecosystem Management

Woman Biologist Collecting Environment Samples from a Mountain Lake in Winter

June 6, 2024

Faster, Cheaper, and Better Permitting Using Environmental DNA

Electric charging station for electric vehicles in a mall parking lot.

May 24, 2024

Reality Check on the Electrification of Personal Vehicles

Pale Blue Dot photo taken by Voyager 1 in 1990

April 19, 2024

Blue Dots, Wickedness, and Earth Day

Participants at the 1947 Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Mechanics (left to right): I.I. Rabi; Linus Pauling; J. Van Vleck; W.E. Lamb; Gregory Breit; D. MacInnes; K.K. Darrow; G.E. Uhlenbeck; Julian Schwinger; Edward Teller; Bruno Rossi; Arnold Nordsieck; John von Neumann; John A. Wheeler; Hans A. Bethe; R. Serber; R.E. Marshak; Abraham Pais; J. Robert Oppenheimer; David Bohm; Richard P. Feynman; Victor F. Weisskopf; Herman Feshbach. Not pictured: H.A. Kramers.

March 15, 2024

Oppenheimer: Impartial Scientist or Advocate?

Sunlight seen through forest canopy

February 21, 2024

Love, Fear, and Anger

hand holding seedling in soil

January 25, 2024

Climate Optimist or Pessimist?