In a five-part series in Grist, graduate students in a UC Berkeley course taught by SFI External Professor John Harte report on the co-benefits experienced by people in areas where innovative practices have been adopted to mitigate climate change.
"Today, around the world, governments as well as everyday people are taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the primary drivers of climate disruption," Harte writes in Grist. "They’re finding the results of these actions go far beyond curbing global warming: They are also creating jobs, enhancing water quality, increasing crop yields, reducing waste, and improving health. These are the co-benefits of combatting climate change."
The class at UC Berkeley is the second such effort. In 2006, Harte co-taught a graduate-level journalism course with writer Sandy Tolan that produced a series of nine stories on how people were experiencing the first signs of impacts of climate change around the world. The series appeared on Salon and aired on NPR’s Living on Earth over nine weeks, and the project won a George Polk award in investigative journalism.
Read the series in Grist (June 30-July 4, 2014)