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Sustainability Swaps
Climate change is overwhelming, and it can often feel that we personally have little control in mitigating it. While comprehensive change...
climateroots
Apr 22, 20225 min read
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April 2022 Monthly Headlines
United Nations to Draft Plastic Pollution Treaty by 2024 (AP, Reuters, Yale360) UN negotiators came to an agreement earlier this month to...
climateroots
Apr 1, 20223 min read
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Environmental Policy 1975-1979
In this month's issue, we are continuing on our exploration of domestic environmental policy, but this time we will be focusing on the...
Gabriella Rutherford
Apr 1, 20223 min read
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The Green Job Market in Numbers
Workers in the green economy make an average annual wage of $51k per year, according to JobsEQ analysis. This represents a $10k...
Maxwell Kent
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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March 2022 Monthly Headlines
In Dire New Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, Climate Impacts Arrival Even Sooner than Expected (The Boston Globe, AP,...
climateroots
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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The EPA and Early Environmental Policy
Hello all, Happy March! In this month's issue, we are continuing our coverage of environmental policy by diving into some of the biggest...
climateroots
Mar 4, 20224 min read
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The Science Behind the Climate Change "Debate"
Scientists work their entire careers creating hypotheses and testing to see if theories can be proven by nature. An immediate reaction to...
Colby Lawless
Mar 4, 20224 min read
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Kazakhstan, Bitcoin, and the Environmental Cost of Crypto
As the rest of the world tepidly welcomed the new year, protests over a New Year’s Day fuel price hike erupted in Kazakhstan. The violent...
Kate Applegate
Jan 31, 20223 min read
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U.S Federal Environmental Policy
Happy 2022! We hope the month of January has been a restful and recharging start to your year! Toward the end of 2021 we released a...
Gabriella Rutherford
Jan 31, 20223 min read
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Headlines of the Month - 1/31/22
Most Destructive Wildfire in Colorado History Incinerates Boulder (Associated Press, NPR, Washington Post) Hurricane force winds helped...
climateroots
Jan 31, 20222 min read
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Weekly Headlines 12/17/21
Uncommon Weather Patterns Continue Throughout the United States (NPR, Associated Press, Washington Post, Huff Post) Bizarre weather...
climateroots
Dec 17, 20212 min read
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The Nuclear Debate
Happy Friday everyone! Today's issue is bittersweet– we are so excited and proud to be wrapping up our first six months of ClimateRoots...
climateroots
Dec 17, 20214 min read
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Nuclear 101
Happy Friday everyone! We are rounding out the year here at ClimateRoots which means we are coming to an end of our focus on renewable...
Gabriella Rutherford
Dec 3, 20214 min read
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Hydropower: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Welcome back to yet another Friday morning ClimateRoots newsletter where, as promised, we will be discussing some of the pros and cons of...
Nicholas Moore
Nov 19, 20216 min read
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The Key to the Future Lies in the Past
The concept that “the key to the future lies in the past” resonates across almost all disciplines but holds especially true for the...
Alessandro Mauceri
Nov 5, 20216 min read
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Weekly Headlines 11/5/21
Extreme ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Dumps Over 5 Inches of Rain Overnight on San Francisco (Associated Press, NBC, Axios, San Francisco Chronicle,...
climateroots
Nov 5, 20213 min read
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Hydropower 101
Hi everyone! In today's issue we are going over the basics of hydroelectricity, a form of renewable energy that creates electricity by...
Gabriella Rutherford
Nov 5, 20213 min read
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Bioenergy 2021
In today's issue we will be covering one of the oldest and more complicated forms of renewable energy; bioenergy! For those that don't...
Gabriella Rutherford
Oct 22, 20214 min read
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Meeting Alex Ang!
Like many undergrads with a desire to become more involved in research, I didn’t know what options were available to me. If you’re...
Alex Ang
Oct 22, 20213 min read
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Thoughts of a Rocky Mountain Runner
Running in the Rockies Golden ripples of light splash across my face, my arms and legs as I run through the forest. The light filters...
Guest Author
Oct 8, 20214 min read
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