Environmental & Public Health

Steve Blackmer is founder and executive director of Kairos Earth, a non-profit organization based in Canterbury, NH, that seeks to renew a widespread understanding of the natural world as a bearer of the sacred and to restore this awareness...

Karl G. Linden, Ph.D., is the Helen and Huber Croft Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Colorado Boulder. He has a BS from Cornell University and an MS and PhD from University of California at Davis. He teaches...

John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.

Patricia (Trish) Holden is a Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also directs the UCSB Natural Reserve System. Her group researches environmental...

Tom Gill is Professor of Geological Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP). He teaches classes in climate science, geology, atmospheric science, and environmental science. Through UTEP...

Marijke's dissertation developed a market-based control plan for locomotives. She was the lead staff developing the 1998 Memorandum of Understanding wherein southern California railroads committed to using only the cleanest locomotives in...

Sydney graduated from Harvard in 1987 with a degree in history. She was the cofounder and executive director of WorldTeach, Inc., a nonprofit organization that places volunteers as teachers in developing countries. After six years at...

For her graduate work at the University of Rhode Island, Joanne studied the effects of habitat size and isolation of southern Rhode Island peatlands on occupancy by the bog copper butterfly (Lycaena epixanthe). Her work with the Rhode...