Environmental Resources & Information

There are so many fantastic environmental resources and information being generated in the field during this time! Here are a few of my favorites by topic:

Behavioral Change
Measurement
Governance & Policy
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Alternative Proteins

Behavioral Change

Measuring Dimensions of Climate Change

A different way to measure the climate impact of foodIntroducing The Economist’s banana index

The Banana Index: Greenhouse-gas emissions by foods (The Economist, 2023)

‘Striking’ new NASA videos show CO2 emissions rapidly building up in atmosphere - Carbon BriefFast-rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are the main driver of human-caused global...

Widespread Misperceptions of Long-term Attitude Change (Mastroianni & Dana, 2022)

Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2021 - Yale Program on Climate Change CommunicationUse the Yale Climate Opinion Maps to explore climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support at every geographic level in the United States.

Governance & Policy

Tracking Biden’s environmental actions President Biden is unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.

Carbon Dioxide Removal

Woolly pigs, high tech and other ingenious ways to take carbon out of the air | Gabrielle WalkerListen to this episode from TED Climate on Spotify. What do woolly pigs have to do with climate change? They're part of a vital, ingenious and evolving strategy to take carbon out of the sky and store it safely -- in trees, soils, the ocean, buildings, rocks and deep underground. Every carbon removal approach takes some combination of natural resources, human ingenuity and technology, says climate thinker Gabrielle Walker. If we get the mix right, we can clean up the environmental mess we've made, reverse the processes behind climate change and give nature a chance to heal. "What goes up must now come down," she says.

Podcast (12 minutes)

6 Things to Know About Direct Air CaptureMeeting climate goals will require carbon dioxide removal, likely at the billion-tonne scale by midcentury. Direct air capture (DAC) is gaining traction as a promising carbon removal approach, but will require careful consideration of energy, land and water use to inform siting and minimize resource impacts.

Article (World Resources Institute, 2022)

Video (6 minutes)

News Article (Colorado Public Radio, 2023)

Alternative Proteins

Environmental Resources & Information

Widespread Misperceptions of Long-term Attitude Change (Mastroianni & Dana, 2022)

A sensory study on consumer valuation for plant-based meat alternatives: What is liked and disliked the most? (Sogari et al., 2023)