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Cutting air pollution emissions would save 50,000 U.S. lives, $600 billion each year

Posted on May 17, 2022

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, …

Posted in Campus News, Energy, GHI In the News, Grants and Research, Health/Climate/Cities, Jonathan Patz, News, Our People. Our Projects.

‘Long overdue’: UW-Madison professors urge UW Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies

Posted on March 2, 2021

GHI Director Jonathan Patz among faculty members urging UW Foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies.

Posted in Energy, GHI In the News, Health/Climate/Cities, Jonathan Patz, Leadership

Madison startup completing 100 solar setups in rural Africa

Posted on April 30, 2018

Madison startup completing 100 solar setups in rural Africa

Posted in Campus News, Energy, Health/Climate/Cities

Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon

Posted on March 7, 2018

Green spaces in cities help control floods, store carbon

Posted in Campus News, Energy, Health/Climate/Cities, Uncategorized

Weston Roundtable: Synthetic Biology and the Conservation of Nature.

Posted on November 30, 2017

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 …

Posted in Energy, Events

Wisconsin Ecology 23rd Annual Fall Symposium

Posted on October 11, 2017

      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 …

Posted in Energy, Events

Australian Radio National: Renewable energy health benefits outweigh financial cost

Posted on September 25, 2017
Posted in Energy, Health/Climate/Cities, Jonathan Patz

The Guardian: Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food

Posted on September 25, 2017

Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food: Jonathan Patz

Posted in Energy, Health/Climate/Cities, Jonathan Patz, News, Uncategorized

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Patz — Tax on hybrids and electric vehicles is poor economic policy

Posted on September 14, 2017

Tax on electric hybrids is poor economic policy, GHI Director Jonathan Patz says.

Posted in Energy, GHI In the News, Health/Climate/Cities, Jonathan Patz, Leadership, News

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