Tag: Advocacy
Craft breweries are fermenting change, addressing local ills while serving local ales
Colleen C. Myles, Texas State University
Some scholars say beer and wine – and fermentation in general – helped...
3 reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize
Global warming has increased the number of extreme weather events around the world by 400% since the 1980s. Countries know how to...
What’s really driving coal power’s demise?
David Drake, University of Colorado Boulder and Jeffrey York, University of Colorado Boulder
The Research Brief is a short...
Companies promoting causes can be accused of ‘wokewashing’ – allying themselves...
Kim Sheehan, University of Oregon
More consumers want companies to address societal problems, including climate change and crumbling infrastructure.
Additionally, more than half want to buy...
With science under siege in 2017, scientists regrouped and fought back:...
Maggie Villiger, The Conversation
2017 may well be remembered as the year of alternative facts and fake news. Truth took a hit, and experts seemed...
Rather than being free of values, good science is transparent about...
Kevin Elliott, Michigan State University
Scientists these days face a conundrum. As Americans are buffeted by accounts of fake news, alternative facts and deceptive social...
How some rich people are trying to dismantle inequality
Erynn Beaton, The Ohio State University; Maureen A. Scully, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Sandra Rothenberg, Rochester Institute of Technology
Ample research indicates that the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
