Senior Farms & Forests researcher at @Sightline
Joined January 2010
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The biggest corn harvest in U.S. history isn't all good news. I crunched the numbers on how much oversupply hurts farmers, taxpayers, and the environment.
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Op-ed: Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days for Food, Farming, and Fairness via @CivilEats civileats.com/2025/04/29/op-…
Postdoc-to-tenure track position in Agroecology and Biodiversity. Could be a great opportunity at the forefront of agroecology!
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Join us on Wednesday, June 26 at Fjallraven's Downtown Seattle store for a screening of "Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change." More info: sightline.org/filmscreening/
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LGBTQIA+ people are on the frontlines of climate justice. Join us on Wednesday, June 26 at Fjallraven's Downtown Seattle store for a screening of "Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change." More info: sightline.org/filmscreening/
@SeaWolfBakers
@utopia_wa
Kate Anderson retweeted
Fire-hardening new construction is what will save us as fire weather intensifies every year.
Building a new home to wildfire code costs roughly the same as building a non-hardened home – but retrofitting an existing home costs more.
Hope paid off. We're hitting peak fossil fuel demand.
🌞💨💝
That means if we keep supporting solar, wind, heat pumps, and EVs, we'll use less and less oil and gas every year. Yay!
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Tomorrow (May 7) $1 per pint will be donated to Sightline at Reuben’s Brews Fremont taproom. Bring your friends, dogs, and your friends’ dogs. My Sightline colleagues and I will be there starting at 4pm. See you there! reubensbrews.com/event/grati…
Karuk cultural fire practices return beneficial fire to the land – and show how to respect tribal cultural and political sovereignty, too. Check out the latest article in my series about managing climate-intensified wildfires.
sightline.org/2024/04/11/wha…
My friends in Santa Rosa, CA just lost their home insurance. Devastating. The question is: How can we help existing homes with wildfire insurance without signaling to developers: “Go ahead, build in risky places, we’ll take care of the insurance!”
apnews.com/article/californi…
But subsidizing risky development does the opposite. Politically, removing subsidies for ex-urban growth is probably the easiest way to redirect growth away from climate risks. nytimes.com/2023/03/24/podca…
Kate Anderson retweeted
Just a stunning view of prescribed fire in Yosemite yesterday. Cheers to all involved. Absolutely love to see this kind of work.
#cafire #cali #California #wildfire
📷 : @YosemiteFire
Looking for a hopeful perspective on climate change?
The Karuk Climate Adaptation Plan is a masterpiece of heart and science, with TEK on every page, and detailed restoration guidelines for 22 cultural indicator species, e.g. tanoak mushrooms.
karuk.us/images/docs/dnr/FIN…
Takeaways:
👀All eyes on meat & dairy’s emissions
🥇#1 solution = shrink meat and dairy, globally
👯Vegans (v̵e̵r̵s̵u̵s̵) and omnivores together
🥬Healthy diets = less meat & dairy = less GHG
🧮Sen’s Nobel in economics: hunger is more about politics than global quantity of food
Just announced! IATP will be hosting a webinar on our Emissions Impossible report series on June 15. What have we learned since 2018 about big meat & dairy’s climate impact from a rights & environmental justice perspective, and what comes next? Register: iatp.org/webinar/big-meat-da…
-We need a just transition (retrain, re-tool)
-Question private carbon accounting (eg Nestle)
-It’s not about individual behavior change
-Stop subsidizing livestock
-Work together, at the global-system to avoid leakage and inequity