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Mentoring Award

17 April 2023, by Jonathan Gilligan, Vanderbilt MyVU News awards

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/04/17/margaret-cuninggim-womens-center-presents-annual-awards-to-five-vanderbilt-community-members/

I am thrilled and proud to receive a mentoring award from the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt, recognizing my mentorship, support, and advocacy for women at Vanderbilt, especially in STEM.

All That Performative Environnmentalism Adds Up

2 September 2020, by Annie Lowery, The Atlantic private governance, private-sector wedge, individual actions

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/your-tote-bag-can-make-difference/615817/

Annie Lowery has a new article in The Atlantic, “All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up,” in which she considers the ways in which actions by individuals and households can play important roles in promoting effective policy actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What communities do, laws reflect—this is another reason to act on climate change, and urgently. “We’re part of a society, where people interact with companies, companies interact with the government, and people interact with the government.

Beyond Politics is one of the top environmental books of the last 50 years

23 December 2019, by Jonathan Gilligan, Environmental Forum Beyond Politics, Book reviews

My book, Beyond Politics was included in a list of the top environmental books of the last 50 years in a retrospective by Oliver A. Houck and G Tracy Mehan in Environmental Forum, published by the Environmental Law Institute.

This past winter in Nashville was unusually warm and rainy. And it looks like spring will be, too.

20 March 2019, by Mariah Timms, The Tennessean (Nashville) Nashville, climate change

https://www.tennessean.com/story/weather/2019/03/20/nashville-weather-spring-winter-el-nino-shift/3146473002/

I was quoted in a story at the Tennessean about the unusually warm and wet winter in 2018–19: “Winters have gotten so warm in the last 20 or so years that people forget. Weather that wouldn’t have been remarkably cold 30 or 40 years ago seems extraordinarily cold today.”

Bangladesh's geography will naturally counter sea level rise until it becomes too rapid due to climate change

19 February 2019, by Saqib Sarkar, The Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh) Bangladesh, climate change, sea-level rise, sediment

https://www.dhakatribune.com/climate-change/2019/02/19/bangladesh-s-geography-will-naturally-counter-sea-level-rise-until-it-becomes-too-rapid-due-to-climate-change

I was interviewed by the Dhaka Tribune on the impact of sea-level rise in Bangladesh. I explained that with good land-management, sediment carried to the coast by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers can raising the land as fast as the sea is rising for the near-future, but that eventually global warming may cause the sea level to rise faster than the land can adapt.

Good Law | Bad Law Podcast

21 December 2018, by Aaron J. Freiwald, Good Law | Bad Law podcasts, Beyond Politics, private governance, Michael Vandenbergh, Aaron Freiwald, climate change, decarbonization

https://www.goodlawbadlawpodcast.com/podcasepisodes/2018/12/21/good-law-bad-law-112-lawmakers-may-not-hold-the-key-to-climate-change-w-michael-vandenbergh-amp-jonathan-gilligan

Michael Vandenbergh and I were interviewed by Aaron J. Freiwald for the Good Law/Bad Law podcast. We discussed our recent book and the role of the private sector in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Beyond Politics Webinar at the Environmental Law Institute

6 September 2018, by , Environmental Law Review webinars, Environmental Law Institute, Beyond Politics, Michael Vandenbergh, Stephen Harper, Jackie Roberts, Cassie Phillips, Intel, Carlyle Group, private governance, climate change, climate policy, decarbonization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu0_l1-tgvY

Michael Vandenbergh and I participated in a webinar hosted by the Environmental Law Institute on our book, Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change. Cassie Phillips (director of the Private Environmental Governance Initiative at ELI) moderated. Stephen Harper (Global Director of Environment and Energy Policy at Intel) and Jackie Roberts (Chief Sustainability Officer at the Carlisle Group) provided private industry perspectives.

Radio interview about water conservation policies

6 August 2018, by Mark Brodie, The Show, KJZZ (Phoenix) water conservation

http://kjzz.org/content/680810/do-citys-politics-impact-its-water-conservation-policies

I was interviewed for The Show on KJZZ in Phoenix about my recent paper on urban water conservation policies in the U.S.

Two US Professors meet DU VC

10 July 2018, by Staff correspondent, The Financial Express (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Bangladesh

https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/education/two-us-professors-meet-du-vc-1531225623

The Financial Express (Bangladesh) reported on the meeting between Prof. Steve Goodbred and myself, from Vanderbilt University, and the Dr. Md. Aktaruzzaman, Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University. During the meeting, we discussed academic and research collaborations between Dhaka University and Vanderbilt on climate change, riverbank erosion, access to safe drinking water, and other environmental challenges.

Scientific and Informed Research Needed on Waterways

9 July 2018, by Staff correspondent, Daily Samakal Bangladesh, river navigability, inland shipping, Coastal SEES

http://en.samakal.com/environment/article/180788/scientific-and-informed-research-needed-on-waterways

The Daily Samakal (Bangladesh) reported on a workshop I helped to organize in Dhaka on “River Navigation and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh: Economic Importance and Impacts of Environmental Change”. Participants included academics, government officials, representatives of the shipping industry, and members of community and political activist groups.

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