Are We Conditioning Our Air or Ourselves?

Air conditioning is ruining our body’s ability to adapt to heat, while it wastes a tremendous, and growing, amount of energy.

By Samantha Maxwell | September 15, 2018 | Environment | Acclimatization, Air Conditioning, Architecture, CFCs, Comfort, Cooling, Electricity, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Heat, HFCs, Willis Carrier

How Climate Change Could Affect Culinary Culture

Climate change is already affecting agriculture. What will this mean for iconic food items that help define cultures? Can we gracefully adapt?

By Samantha Maxwell | August 2, 2017 | Agriculture, Culture, Environment, Food | Abby van den Berg, Agriculture, Canada, Chocolate, Climate Change, Coffee, Foliage, Food Collapse, Georgia, Global Warming, Identity, Lane Orchards, Maple Syrup, Maple Trees, Modernity, New England, Peaches, Pesticides, Pests, Proctor Maple Research Center, Timothy Perkins, Tom Okie, Tradition, Vermont, Water Shortages

Podcast #13: Julie Brigham-Grette, Climate Scientist

Julie Brigham-Grette has been studying climate history for decades; she gives it to us straight about what’s happening in the Arctic with warming and sea-level rise.

By Mo Lotman | July 19, 2017 | Environment, Podcasts | Alaska, Antartic, Arctic, Bering Strait, Chukchi Sea, Climate Change, Climate Record, Climate Science, Environment, Glaciation, Global Warming, Greenland, Ice Cores, Larsen Ice Shelf, Melting, Rob DeConto, Russia, Sea Ice, Sea Level, Sediment