climate change

Turning On Light Bulbs, Dialing Back Climate Change, and Building Up Cities

Edison: And the Rise of Innovation by Leonard DeGraaf (Foreword by Bill Gates)

The nutshell: This heavily illustrated biography of Thomas Edison from DeGraaf, the archivist at Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, creates a portrait not of a mad genius but of a brilliant, ambitious, and collaborative inventor and businessman with a knack for knowing what the public wanted.

Literary lovechild of: Randall E. Stross’ The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World and Henry Ford’s My Life and Work.

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The Ocean Vs. California

On a Boat Off Santa Barbara, Contemplating How The Coast Has Changed—And Will Again

by Brian Fagan |

Melting Greenland ice sheets. Calving glaciers. Fresh water released into a warming ocean that floods great cities and has the potential to kill thousands. The media are full of such …

Climate Scientist Alex Hall

Don’t Ask Me If Global Warming Has Us Totally Screwed (Especially When I’m Drinking)

Alex Hall studies the climate system from both regional and global perspectives as a professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Before participating in a panel on …

My Personal Climate Confusion Disorder

From the Searing Southwest to the Mighty Miss, I’m Experiencing a Personal Climate Change

by Julianne Couch |

Like a human divining rod, I came to eastern Iowa from the arid West seeking water. In the West, my eyes were trained mostly on the ground, on the dust …

New York Times Environmental Writer Andrew Revkin

Embracing Your Inner Dork, One Emoticon at a Time

Andrew Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for The New York Times and is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University’s Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. Before …

Environmental Historian Jon Christensen

Digging on Cool, Diverse, Strange, Beautiful SoCal

Environmental historian Jon Christensen is a recent Los Angeles transplant from Northern California and an adjunct assistant professor and Pritzker fellow in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and …


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