I am thrilled and proud to receive a mentoring award from the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt, recognizing my mentorship, support, and advocacy for women at Vanderbilt, especially in STEM.
Annie Lowery has a new article in The Atlantic, “All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up,” in which she considers the ways in which actions by individuals and households can play important roles in promoting effective policy actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What communities do, laws reflect—this is another reason to act on climate change, and urgently. “We’re part of a society, where people interact with companies, companies interact with the government, and people interact with the government. And in all of these cases, the interactions go both ways,” Jonathan Gilligan, a physicist and a climate-change researcher at Vanderbilt University, told me. “Each part influences another.” Many climate activists believe that changing social norms around carbon-intensive behaviors makes the likelihood of dramatic climate-change legislation in the future more likely, not less.
My book, Beyond Politics was included in a list of the top environmental books of the last 50 years in a retrospective by Oliver A. Houck and G Tracy Mehan in Environmental Forum, published by the Environmental Law Institute.