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Op Ed: Climate Crisis Demands Diverse Leadership

Dr. Jennie Stephens, GRI's Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Director of SPPUA and Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University contributed an Op-Ed to The Progressive focused on climate and energy policies with social, economic, and racial justices at its core.

John Bolton has a habit of toppling leaders but having no replacement in mind

Imagine writing a bestseller to derail a president’s reelection bid without two seconds of thought about whom you’ll vote for…

Emissions dropped during COVID-19. Here’s what cities can do to keep them from rising

COVID-19 upended our daily lives and shifted our relationship to transportation, although we don’t yet know how trends that started…

Racial Equity and Urban Climate Action

Government has long been complicit in creating our nation's structural racism. The nation was founded with slavery enforced by the…

Avoiding Leapfrog Brain

When times are uncertain, we are eager to find meaning. We find comfort in thinking we are in the know.…

Urban Heat Islets: Street Segments, Land Surface Temperatures, and Medical Emergencies During Heat Advisories

Objectives. To examine the relationships among environmental characteristics, temperature, and health outcomes during heat advisories at the geographic scale of street…

Innovation Will Help Us Rebuild

Every state, city, and town is a system of systems. Public schools. Transportation. Housing. Local commerce. Industry and manufacturing. Law…

Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastructure Security

After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate…

Why your local store keeps running out of flour, toilet paper and prescription drugs

Retailers are frequently running out of everything from flour and fresh meat to toilet paper and pharmaceuticals as supply chains hammered by the coronavirus struggle to keep up with stockpiling consumers.

U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored.

The spread of Covid-19 has put a spotlight on delivery workers. Letter carriers, Instacart shoppers, and Amazon delivery workers are…

Cleaner Air Should Not Require Sheltering in Place

European Space Agency satellite images published in The New York Times on March 24 show dramatic reductions in air pollution in Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle due to so many vehicles being off the road as people shelter in place. What a shame it took a pandemic...

How to mix compassion and cooperation into social distancing

Resilient societies are able to bounce back from disruptions. The capacity to rebuild physical infrastructure is, of course, important after calamity strikes. But resilience also requires shoring up social infrastructure, the ties that bind us together.