Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness and death, …
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‘Long overdue’: UW-Madison professors urge UW Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies
GHI Director Jonathan Patz among faculty members urging UW Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies.
Madison startup completing 100 solar setups in rural Africa
Madison startup completing 100 solar setups in rural Africa
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon
Weston Roundtable: Synthetic Biology and the Conservation of Nature.
Synthetic biology is a fast-moving innovative field with the potential to change our relationship to the natural world. It involves the design and construction of new biological parts, and the re-design of existing, natural biological …
Wisconsin Ecology 23rd Annual Fall Symposium
We are pleased to host Dr. Julian Olden, a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, as keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Ecology Fall Symposium on October …
Australian Radio National: Renewable energy health benefits outweigh financial cost
The Guardian: Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food
Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food: Jonathan Patz
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Patz — Tax on hybrids and electric vehicles is poor economic policy
Tax on electric hybrids is poor economic policy, GHI Director Jonathan Patz says.