Governor Scott, What's Your Plan?
There has been a lot of attention paid to climate change impacts to Florida in the past month, including the record rain storms that resulted in the declaration of a state of…
Climate Change Takes Center Stage on Earth Week in Miami
Climate change impacts, including sea level rise, were front and center in South Florida - paying true respect to Earth Week. While environment-focused events were occurring across Florida, Miami-Dade County was home…
Today's National Climate Assessment Provides the Latest on Climate Change
SACE staffer Jennifer Rennicks co-authored this blogpost. A new report, known as the National Climate Assessment, was released by the White House today, presenting the latest information on the state of climate…
Power Outages, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change: How Smart Energy Choices Will Help Keep the Lights On
On April 29, SACE's High Risk Energy Program Director, Ulla Reeves presented on the topics covered in this blog to the first-ever Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference in Charlotte, NC. This blog post…
New Round of IPCC Reports Keep the Climate Drum Beating
The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out this month on the impacts of climate change, how to adapt to those impacts, and how we must reduce…
Burying the evidence and our heads: North Carolina deletes climate docs
I don't know about you, but I've really found the breaking news on climate change assaulting and terrifying lately. Headlines like "Climate Change: ‘Abrupt,’ Unpredictable,’ ‘Irreversible’ and ‘Highly Damaging'" have frequented my…
Miami Tackles Sea Level Rise in Absence of State Leadership
In recent blogs, I expressed my surprise and disappointment in our lack of state-wide clean energy policy solutions in Florida to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. Since then I have…
Join Hands to Protect Our Treasured Places!
For the past four years, there has been one annual worldwide grassroots event that has championed the cause of clean energy as a replacement to risky fossil fuels: Hands Across the Sand.…
Puerto Rico Leaves Florida in its Wake on Clean Energy Policy
In a recent blog Florida Could Learn About Clean Energy Solutions from Puerto Rico, I shared my journey in searching for Florida’s clean energy policy. As a young political scientist, I began this journey…
Soggy in Sochi: The End of the Winter Olympics As We Know It?
Before the 2014 Winter Olympic Games began, Russia pledged that Sochi would be the greenest Olympic Games in history, promising green building standards for Olympic facilities and a “zero waste” policy, and…