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.
blog.ucs.org/kathryn-anderso…
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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@utopia_wa
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.
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…
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…
Additives in ruminant diets have a *small* role, but don’t get distracted from main solution (shrink production & consumption)
-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
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…
If population growth in fireplains burdens the public. How to guide it to safer places?
👎Ax perverse incentives that encourage WUI growth
👍Pass laws to channel growth toward towns and cities
👍Stop shielding new houses from the full costs of building in harm's way
When a new house goes up where wildfire risk is high, so do taxes, for everyone, and insurance rates, for everyone, and smoke, for everyone.
The new homeowners don’t pay these costs.
Let's reign in perverse incentives and guide growth to safe places.
sightline.org/2023/06/01/the…
For healthy air, wildfire policy is crucial. But drawing down greenhouse gases is even more crucial. Tomorrow: IATP webinar on meat and dairy climate considerations.
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…
When a new house goes up where wildfire risk is high, so do taxes, for everyone, and insurance rates, for everyone, and smoke, for everyone.
The new homeowners don’t pay these costs.
Let's reign in perverse incentives and guide growth to safe places.
sightline.org/2023/06/01/the…
Dear Yankee Stadium: Please announce that guiding population growth away from fire-prone lands can improve our growing smoke problem. (And congrats to Lucas Giolito, for throwing 100 pitches through the smokey haze without allowing a single hit.)
sightline.org/2023/06/01/the…
.@Sightline hosted author @JohnVaillant before his reading in Seattle last night. It’s hard for me to visualize a fire future so different from the past. His new book helps.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
Oh, but it is!
Guiding growth to safer places is just the prerequisite. Putting up houses in places primed to burn limits fighting fire with fire.
@Sightline designed this heart-rending image to express the anguish of being trapped on the wildfire treadmill. Feel free to use and share.
Actually, we need more fire, not less.
But we're trapped on a wildfire treadmill: The more we suppress wildfires, the worse they get; and the worse fires get, the more we suppress them.
sightline.org/2023/05/24/wer…
@firewise #wildfire #ReadyForWildfire #PrescribedFire #FireAdapted
