Climate Change

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Mulvaney interviewed on social and ecological impacts of desert solar farms

Dustin Mulvaney was featured in a May 2023 KSQD Sustainability Now! episode on the social and ecological impacts of large solar farms in the desert and whether they can contribute to a “just energy transition”. Listen here
June 21, 2023
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Switzer Fellows Book List

Read up on the latest titles released by fellows in our Switzer Fellows Book List. This running list includes titles ranging from young adult fiction to socio-environmental research, and from the wildlife of the Northeast to the wildflowers...
June 21, 2023
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“Be tenacious on behalf of life on Earth” Ayana Johnson commencement address

“What this moment in history requires is a tenacious focus on solutions, and a vision of what we are working toward, of what is possible.”
June 21, 2023
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Law Students for Climate Accountability exposes UK legal industry’s fossil fuel work

New report by Camila Bustos' organization reveals extent of UK law firms’ involvement with fossil fuel companies.
May 17, 2023
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Kerry Guerin

2022 Fellow
Kerry is committed to making good on the promises of California for all of its residents and supporting historically marginalized communities to advocate for themselves and succeed in their own futures’ creation. Their work focuses on environmental justice, drinking water and a Just Transition.
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Rodríguez Cruz receives Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis Fellowship

Scientist, writer, consultant and Switzer Fellow Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz joins distinguished cohort to change who writes history.
April 17, 2023
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Rand finds long waits and low completion rates for projects seeking to join electric grid

An April 2023 study led by Joseph Rand at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, found there are over 10,000 projects representing 1,350 gigawatts (GW) of generator capacity and 680 GW of storage currently in the interconnection queue lines across the United States. Interconnection queues are lists of utility projects that are seeking to connect to the electric grid, and waiting to undergo studies before they can be built.
April 17, 2023
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Miner quoted on frozen virus revived from permafrost

Kimberley Miner spoke with CNN about her research on potential hazards of thawing permafrost, from ancient organisms to hazardous waste.
March 21, 2023
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Law Students for Climate Accountability releases report on elite law school fossil fuel lawyering recruitment

LSCA reports that elite schools are sending lawyers into careers like oil and gas law at a rate that is over three times the average.
March 21, 2023
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Zeller finds protected areas unlikely to be steppingstones for climate-induced range shifts

It is often assumed that protected areas can serve as steppingstone habitats, but there are several factors that may impede successful range shifts among protected areas.
March 21, 2023