Lara Skinner, executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University, says the Green New Deal plans should include sufficient planning, financial support and inclusion of workers' voices.
Cornell’s Community and Regional Development Institute hosts “From Zombies to Vacants to Sustainable Housing: Building Resilient Communities,” a symposium Oct. 23-24 on the Cornell campus.
Diversity of children’s diets and food security improved for households after Tanzanian farmers learned about sustainable crop-growing methods, gender equity, nutrition and climate change from peer mentors.
Four Cornell faculty testified to the NYS Assembly Oct. 27 on how firing up once-shuttered carbon-based power plants – to process cryptocurrency – could pause environmental progress.
In Nature Geoscience, Cornell’s Johannes Lehmann says that scientists should develop new models that accurately reflect soil carbon-storage processes to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Thomas O’Rourke, professor of engineering at Cornell University, comments on how utility companies and governments should handle power damage and outages after hurricanes.
Anindita Banerjee is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She says the ruling highlights the importance of invisible threats such as climate change, and harkens back to the 1960s debate over pesticides.
According to new research co-led by Jonathon Schuldt ’04, associate professor of communication, family values are a much stronger predictor of climate opinions and policy support than political views for U.S. Latinos.
“A Call For Innovation: New York’s Agrifood System,” a report published this past spring by Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement, is the basis for the topics to be addressed at this year’s Grow-NY Summit, slated to bring food and ag innovators together at the Syracuse Oncenter on Nov. 16-17.
A series of storms sweeping across the U.S. this week has brought heavy snow and ice, flooding rain and strong winds, putting states across the U.S. under storm alerts.
Jessica Spaccio, a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, says that while the storm system is impacting western and central U.S., the Northeast can expect mild weather, warmer temperatures and rain.
