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Like climate change, Peter Atwater notes how the proximity of COVID-19 causes our anxiety to "rise exponentially" the closer it gets. Atwater is adjunct economics professor...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Human Response , March 2020
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What's good for you as a person is rarely good for the collective group, says Robert Frank, economics professor at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and author of...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Human Response , March 2020
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Director, National Economic Council; Former Global Head of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock
Brian Deese was appointed director of the National Economic Council by President Biden in December 2020. Previously, he led the sustainable investing team at BlackRock, ...
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April 15th, 2020
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The COVID-19 recession is unfolding at historic speed and depth. New jobless claims reached a record 10 million in just two weeks. Wall Street’s fear gauge closed...
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Finance Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University; Author, Broken Bargain: Banks, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
Kathleen Day joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2013. A business author and journalist, she is a full-time lecturer with a specialty in financial crises and...
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April 20th, 2020
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With COVID-19 shutting down urban areas, city dwellers from LA to New Delhi are getting a rare taste of clean air and blue skies. Practically overnight,...
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Former Employee, Vermont Yankee; Co-Founder, Vermont Woods Studios
Ken Farabaugh grew up as one of six kids in western Pennsylvania. He holds dual associates degrees in electrical engineering and nuclear engineering technology, a bachelors...
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Director of Nuclear Power Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists
Edwin Lyman is an expert on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism as well as nuclear power safety and security. He directs the Nuclear Power Safety program at the Union...
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Founder and CEO, Oklo Inc.
Jacob DeWitte is the Founder and the CEO of Oklo Inc., a Sunnyvale, CA based company developing and building small nuclear reactors. DeWitte has been working with nuclear...
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Chief Executive Officer, The Council on Strategic Risks
Christine Parthemore has deep experience addressing issues ranging from the security implications of climate change to countering weapons of mass destruction, including in...
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CEO, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative
As CEO of OGCI Climate Investments, Dr. Pratima Rangarajan is responsible for the delivery of the OGCI Climate Investments' mission – creating positive outcomes in the...
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Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
During Matt Rogers' 25 years at McKinsey, he has served as the leader of electric power & natural gas, oil & gas, and sustainability practices as well as supporting...
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Founder and CEO, Metabolic
Eva Gladek is the founder and CEO of Metabolic, a consulting, research, and venture building firm focused on tackling global sustainability challenges and advancing a...
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Nuclear power - revive it or allow a slow death?
In middle of the last century, nuclear power promised an exciting new world of efficient and eternal energy. But after a...
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Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Aniruddha (Ani) Dasgupta leads the Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, the World Resources Institute (WRI)’s program that galvanizes action to help cities grow more...
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Human incursion into remote ecosystems can have far-reaching effects on our health and well-being. Deforestation and changes in land use, often to produce food, disrupt...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health , April 2020
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Dr. Bernstein, interim director of The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE), says that climate...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health , April 2020
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"We've seen a pattern where development of natural areas, typically for agricultural production... creates inroads...that facilitate human and wildlife interaction," says...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health , April 2020
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"If I have baby, that i'm taking care of...and that baby has a fever, like the planet, I don't presume that everything is going to be ok," says Aaron Bernstein, interim...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health , April 2020
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"As a society, we have to make decisions about big threats that face us based on facts," says Barb Gottlieb, director of environment and health at Physicians for Social...
Part of COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health , April 2020