By getting serious about limiting global warming, the world could save itself more than $20 trillion
ESPM professor Scott Stephens, a fire ecologist, was a featured panelist at the Bay Area premiere of the documentary "Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests and the Future" at the David Brower Center Monday night. The film addresses the ways that fire suppression and climate change have exposed not just our forests and wildlands, but also our urban areas, to devastating wildfires. It also explores mitigation strategies.
ESPM grad student Vera Chang authored this article for Civil Eats on worker-driven social responsibility (WSR), which seeks to protect human rights for low-wage workers. A central mechanism of WSR is the enforcement of its standards through the application of strict market consequences for the most egregious human rights violations. Cheng notes that the advent of CIW’s Fair Food Program has changed commercial agriculture's "hustle culture" significantly; alongside the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, the Fair Food Program is sparking change for workers and women in many industries.
Commenting on Planting Justice, a nonprofit in East Oakland that hires former inmates, giving them a "family sustaining wage" and other significant benefits, ESPM CE specialist Jennifer Sowerwine, says that the organization has "shifted the conversation around food justice." She notes, "It's not just about food security, but the security of providing living wages."