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Dr. Ted Auch, FaCT Vice President
from September 28, 2024
The Value of Data in Understanding Environmental Justice Across the Rural to Urban Divide
Ted Auch, PhD., FaCT Vice President currently serves as the Midwest Program Director for the FracTracker Alliance. He is an adjunct faculty member at John Carroll University, teaching Climate Change and Biochemistry. Ted strives to bring the fossil fuel industry to transparency, including their impacts on water, waste, and the landscape.
In addition to FaCT, Ted serves on the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Ohio Environmental Justice Board and two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Boards for their EJScreen Tool and their Environmental Justice Science and Analysis Review Panel (EJSARP). Ted received a BS and PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont. He pursued an MS in Forest Ecology and Mine Reclamation at Virginia Tech.
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Brett Christophers
from August 25, 2024
The Price is Wrong--Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? This is Brett Christopher’s claim. The global economy is moving too slowly toward sustainability because the return on green investment is too low.
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Brett Christophers is a political economist and economic geographer, and the author of Our Lives in Their Portfolios, Rentier Capitalism and The New Enclosure, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Brett Christophers is based at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Jake Bittle
from July 31, 2024
The Great Displacement:
Climate Change and the Next American Migration
The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.
Jennifer Ackerman
from June 15, 2024
What an Owl Knows--the New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman illuminates the rich biology and natural history of owls and reveals remarkable new scientific discoveries about their brains and behavior. She joins scientists in the field and explores how researchers are using modern technology and tools to learn how owls communicate, hunt, court, mate, raise their young, and move about from season to season.
Justin Nobel
from May 17, 2024
Petroleum-238
They've known for 110 years but haven't done a thing to stop it. It's the secret of the century.
The journey into this topic started in 2017, when science journalist Justin Nobel learned of the extraordinary amounts of oilfield waste being carelessly disposed of in Ohio, and that one company had made a liquid deicer out of radioactive oilfield waste for home driveways and patios that was supposedly “Safe for Pets” and had been selling the product at local hardware stores. Eventually, Ohio community and environmental organizers linked Justin into the oil and gas industry’s shadow network of radioactive waste workers, and the startling extent of this problem became clear—it went far beyond Ohio, across the nation, and back in time to the earliest days of the industry.
