Staying Strong While Everything Falls Apart Event: An Eco-Anxious Perspective

By Alexandra Rose Images are flashing across my computer screen of the California sky blazed with a haunting orange glow. Ice that was once impenetrable in Greenland is now melting beyond a point of no return. Partisan politics and having the most divisive and dangerous president in modern history has made it so that basic …

Riding the Wave of Sustainability

by Aaron Hersum I’m going to just go ahead and say it: we might need to do Invite to Ignite more often. Someone actually said that to me as I was leaving our second iteration of the BASG version of speed-dating with sustainability organizations, except at this event making meaningful connections is the norm. Before …

Knowledge is Power

by Jessica Halvorsen According to the EPA, Environmental Justice can be defined as: “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, national origin, or income with regard to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies[1].” What stood out to me, as I listened to several speakers present about …

Not a “Third World” Problem

by Aaron Hersum Environmental justice has many faces - I, for one, define it in many different ways. Sometimes it appears as a public health issue, as was the case in Flint, Michigan. Other times, it takes the shape of combatting rising sea levels, as coastal communities attempt to update their infrastructure, utilities, and homes …

The True Cost of Coal and the Clean Energy Transition

By Aaron Hersum, with contributions from Jess Halvorsen, Tilly Pick, and Eric Grunebaum photo credit: Paul Corbit Brown The Last Mountain, a 2011 Sundance Festival film, illuminates a stunning trend in the energy sector that I did not anticipate when I decided to attend BASG’s “Clean Energy Transition” event. We are spending billions of dollars not to transition to a clean …