Academics at UGA have joined the fight against climate change and are finding ways to solve climate problems in their own backyard.
Drawdown Georgia is an organization dedicated to combating climate change and significantly reducing Georgiaâs carbon footprint by the year 2030 based on solutions tailored to Georgiaâs unique social, economic and natural resources.
Founded by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation in 2019, Drawdown Georgia combines the efforts of academics statewide, including UGAâs Marshall Shepherd, Jacqueline Mohan, Puneet Dwivedi, Sudhagar Mani and Jeff Mullin.
Between 2019 and the end of 2020, Drawdown Georgia operated phase one of its mission, in which experts from across the state came together to research and analyze the best possible solutions to reduce carbon emissions for the specific needs of the state. Phase two began Jan. 1, 2021 and looks to implement these solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
PORTSMOUTH Last August, Richards Avenue resident Tom Morgan, the town planner for Seabrook, was thrilled to see that for the first time in over 130 years, renewable sources generated more energy in the United States than coal.
Portsmouth on the other hand, Morgan wrote in an August letter to city councilors, is “on the wrong side of history” relative to citywide renewable energy, despite its status as an eco-municipality.
“Portsmouth’s homes and businesses are mostly powered by Granite Shore’s coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow and Essential Power’s gas-fired plant in Newington,” he wrote. “Eversource’s recent $126 million investment in upgrades to the transmission corridor from Madbury to Portsmouth signals the industry’s intent to keep our community dependent on fossil fuels well into the future.”
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In 2019 CMG Landscape Architecture principal Pamela Conrad launched Climate Positive Design in an effort to help landscape architects design and build projects that can become climate positive. In this interview originally published on The Dirt, Jared Green talks with Conrad about how this approach can make a big difference. It’s my hope that things like this can give the next generation hope that there are solutions out there, states Conrad, a recipient of the 2018 Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for the development of the award-winning Pathfinder landscape carbon calculator app and the Climate Positive Design Challenge.
Jared Green (JG): A year ago, you launched Climate Positive Design in an effort to help landscape architects design and build projects that can become climate positive, meaning that over their lifespan they sequester more greenhouse gas emissions than they embody or produce. You also put out a major challenge to the community, stating that i
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Alexander Tingle, director of technology, media, and telecom investment banking, UBS Investment Banking
Tingle s partner, who is also a banker, once recommended he read A Little Life, the haunting, critically acclaimed novel by Hanya Yanagihara that was published in 2015 and centers on ambitious young men who move to New York City. I loved it, Tingle said, admitting with a laugh that he s not the most avid reader, but A Little Life has stuck with him and not only because it s set in New York, where he s now building his career.
One of the central characters, a successful go-getter, is struggling with his mental health throughout the story. For Tingle, he was inspired by that character s portrayal and brought to mind mental health-related stigmas that persist in some workplaces, especially for people in cutthroat positions.
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