http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/06/discussing-climate-cities-and-food/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/06/discussing-climate-cities-and-food/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:54 +0000 Brian Kahn http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34840 Last week, the Earth Institute and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society hosted a discussion on cities, food and climate. What were people saying? Find out in this Storify recap of reactions from across Twitter!]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/06/discussing-climate-cities-and-food/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/19/we-dont-know-all-about-hurricanes-but-we-know-enough-to-act/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/19/we-dont-know-all-about-hurricanes-but-we-know-enough-to-act/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:04:16 +0000 Adam Sobel http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=32299 Sandy instantly brought a new kind of national media attention to the influence of global warming on weather disasters. After several years of near-silence on climate from our political leaders and the mainstream media, the renewed attention is profoundly welcome. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/19/we-dont-know-all-about-hurricanes-but-we-know-enough-to-act/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/04/brownfields-untold-stories-unrealized-value/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/04/brownfields-untold-stories-unrealized-value/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:53:47 +0000 CERC Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27006 Across the country, in distressed urban centers, hundreds of thousands of industrial sites have been left lying fallow. These properties, known as brownfields, embody the story of America’s twentieth-century industrial might and bear the mark of that period’s unenlightened practices. Their closing and subsequent abandonment culminated in the loss of well-paying manufacturing jobs, the creation of urban blight and the legacy of environmental contamination. However, research suggests that brownfields may be the missing link in the emerging green economy and one of the keys to America's economic comeback. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/04/brownfields-untold-stories-unrealized-value/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/09/cities-produce-the-emissions-cities-must-deal-with-them/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/09/cities-produce-the-emissions-cities-must-deal-with-them/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:40:49 +0000 Earth Institute http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=898 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/09/cities-produce-the-emissions-cities-must-deal-with-them/feed/ 0