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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Samantha Roberts
Facilitating Responses to Climate Change: ClimAID
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December 14, 2009: Mitigation and adaptation represent two ways to approach global climate change. Mitigation refers to methods that reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, while adaptation calls for the adjustment of practices and policies... read more >
Nuclear Power: To Be or Not To Be
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December 14, 2009: Mitigation efforts represent one lens to approach climate change. As I have been digging around into potential solutions to climate change I came across the longstanding debate on the use of nuclear power as a "clean... read more >
The Future Lies in Flexible Adaptation Pathways
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December 5, 2009: On Wednesday, I had the privilege of attending the knowledge network event: Climate Change and New York City: Creating Flexible Adaptation Pathways. The series of talks represent the findings of the National Panel on Climate... read more >
Exploring the Benefits of Green Roof Architecture
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November 18, 2009: In 2007, Columbia joined with nine other universities in the City in Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC Challenge, pledging to decrease carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2017. One initiative that is in the process of being... read more >
LED Traffic Signals: Mitigation or Migraine?
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November 16, 2009: In my usual rushed commute from Barnard College on the west side of Broadway to Columbia just across the street I was stopped by a red illuminated pedestrian signal. I suppose the two hours I had just spent in Environmental... read more >
The Channels of Climate Change Exploration
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October 28, 2009: Partially in response to an accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures are rising and patterns in climatic behavior are changing. Though it was, and still is a hotly debated topic of discussion, there... read more >
911 Response to Climate Change in New York State: ClimAID
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October 14, 2009: In recent times New York State has experienced several emergencies as a result of weaknesses in critical infrastructure posed by climate change. These include, but are not limited to, more frequent black outs and combined... read more >
Green Action Project Beginnings
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October 7, 2009: As a current senior at Barnard College, I am pursuing a major in Environmental Science with an emphasis in environmental policy and law. Perhaps best explained by my years of interest in meteorology, my idea of the perfect... read more >
Samantha Roberts