While pursuing her Master's degree in environmental policy at Tufts University, Nicole Robillard focuses on the link between energy use and the environment. Building on her experience as an Account Manager for EPA's Energy Star Buildings...
Urvi currently leads the Renewable Energy Team at Facebook, Inc which is responsible for selecting, negotiating, contracting and managing renewable energy projects to achieve Facebook's goal of being 100% supported by clean energy by 2020...
Robert J. Klee was previously the Chief of Staff of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Prior to that, he was an appellate and general litigator at a regional law firm in New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to that...
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer: Philippines, 1998-2000. Co-founder of Palawan Conservation Corps (1999). MS graduate of Cal Poly Pomona in Regenerative Studies with focus on bioenergy from algae used to enhance water quality (2007)...
Kelly Sims Gallagher is Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School. She is a faculty associate of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy’s (CIERP), and director of its Energy, Climate...
David is a Professor at University of California, Hastings College of Law, teaching courses in Domestic Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Cliate Change Law, Biodiversity Law, and Torts. His research interests include REDD+...
A panel discussion sponsored by the Switzer Foundation with Switzer fellows Katrina Schneider (SYRCL), Dr. Amy Leurs (Google.org), Dr. Healy Hamilton (California Academy of Sciences), Steven Rothert (American Rivers) and facilitated by Dr. Elizabeth Soderstrom (American Rivers).
A panel discussion sponsored by the Switzer Foundation with Switzer fellows Katrina Schneider (SYRCL), Dr. Amy Leurs (Google.org), Dr. Healy Hamilton (California Academy of Sciences), Steven Rothert (American Rivers) and facilitated by Dr...
Several Switzer Fellows attended the COP 15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December through their various organizations. Some have contributed their experiences and thoughts on the proceedings. JASON DELBORNE, Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines, attended the conference under an NSF grant studying process and outcomes. His blog entries are:
In parts of West Virginia and Kentucky, mountaintop removal coal mining is used to blast off the tops of mountains and bulldoze rock and dirt into adjacent headwater stream valleys creating “valley fills.” The goal: to efficiently access thin coal seams near the surface. The legality of this process has been hotly contested, and it has been the subject of numerous lawsuits, scientific studies, and protests.
