Marc Lefkowitz |
11/02/17 @ 11:00am | Posted in Vibrant cities, Transform, Plants & animals
“Urban Forests” author Jill Jonnes offered Cleveland an invaluable lesson on how the city earned, and then lost, its moniker ‘the Forest City.’
Speaking at Levin College of Urban Affairs yesterday, Jonnes harkened back to John Davey, the 19th century arborist from Kent, Ohio whose book “The Tree Doctor” inspired today’s 8,000-employee Kent-headquartered tree service company, Davey Tree.
In a chapter in...
Marc Lefkowitz |
10/31/17 @ 2:00pm | Posted in Climate, Land, Water
Amid disturbing reports this week that climate change has already started to erode public health after a disaster-filled autumn and studies that major branches of the animal kingdom are stressed and finding it difficult to reproduce — a mounting effort to soften the blow is starting to take shape in cities across the U.S.
Extreme hurricanes and wildfires have made 2017...
Marc Lefkowitz |
10/24/17 @ 2:00pm | Posted in Climate, Land, Plants & animals
The next time you’re in the grocery store and pick up your favorite snack food, turn the box over and look for “palm oil” in the ingredients list. A growing market for palm oil — and animal protein — is responsible for one of the largest contributors to climate change.
Marc Lefkowitz |
10/10/17 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Vibrant cities, Transportation choices
For the past year and a half, I have been working with other sustainable transportation advocates in their respective University Circle workplaces to convene a Sustainable Transportation Advisory Committee (STAC). Our mission is to “Improve community health, reduce carbon emissions, and mitigate traffic congestion by increasing the use of sustainable, multi-modal transportation options and establishing a ‘park once’ district.” With...
Marc Lefkowitz |
10/02/17 @ 4:00pm | Posted in Climate, Plants & animals
Scientists wielding thermal imaging tools are taking aim at rainforest depletion and its effect on vulnerable amphibian populations. It’s the pursuit of the Coburn Professor of Environmental Science at John Carroll University, Dr. James Watling, who leads a team of investigators in Columbia’s Magdalena River Valley. In the big picture, human activity has altered 43% of the earth’s terrestrial land,...
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