IoES in the News
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Ever wondered how much your pet’s diet impacts the environment?
Meat production has well-documented impacts on the environment, as Okin notes in a study he published this month in the journal PloS ONE: “Compared to a plant-based diet, a meat-based diet requires more energy, land, and water and has greater environmental consequences in terms of erosion, pesticides, and waste.”
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America’s Fancy Pet Food Addiction Is a Big Problem for the Environment
American pets have been increasingly served up prime cuts of meat, but this food comes at a cost.
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Fido, fluffy and climate change: The news is not good
Meat-eating cats and dogs create the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, about the same climate impact as a year’s worth of driving from 13.6…
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Straying Too Far? Professor Says Dogs and Cats Harm Climate, Advises Hamsters Instead
In his paper published last week, UCLA professor Gregory S. Okin found that meat-eating dogs and cats create the equivalent of 64 million tons of carbon dioxide per year based on the energy consumption required to produce their food, or the same impact as driving 13.6 million cars.
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Did we humans contribute to the Texas heat wave? It’s complicated
"One of the clearest signals that is summarized in this report is that California is already a warmer place than it used to be", said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA whose work is cited in the report.
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Your Carnivorous Pet May Have a Large Carbon ‘Pawprint’
UCLA researchers say that meat-eating pets meat might have unexpectedly large effects on climate change. Pets generate 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin…
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Climate gloom and doom? Bring it on. But we need stories about taking action, too
Facts are not enough. Bring people into the story of science to stimulate their curiosity and inspire them to action.
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Climate gloom and doom? Bring it on.
UCLA’s Jon Christensen urges people to tell stories that inspire action against climate change.
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Federal report sees human-caused changes to California’s climate
Since the 1980’s, human activity has caused higher temperatures and extreme swings between floods and droughts in California’s climate.
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Climate gloom and doom? Bring it on. But we need stories about taking action, too
In order to take action, people not only need to hear the bad news, they need to hear the good news too.
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Your Pet’s Food Is Not Helping the Environment
Meat production has a significant impact on the Earth's environment — and new research shows that your pets are part of the problem.
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Here’s what your pets are really doing to the environment
Armed with a survey estimating that Americans owned 77.8 million pet dogs and 85.6 million pet cats in 2015, Gregory Okin started investigating pets' food needs.
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Study gives pet lovers paws
A shocking new study unleashed by UCLA is blaming family pets for causing some global warming.
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U.S. pets are responsible for 30% of the environmental impact of meat eating
If America’s dogs and cats were their own country, their meat consumption would rank fifth in the world.
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UCLA professor says dogs and cats contribute significantly to climate change
In a study released Wednesday, a geography professor at UCLA calculated that the meat-based food Americans’ dogs and cats eat – and the waste those pets produce – generate the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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LA’s new cleantech chief and a champion for tomorrow’s talent
Vien Truong, Pritzker candidate, featured in GreenBiz.
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It’s Never Been Harder to Be a Climate Scientist
Lauren Kurtz, Pritzker candidate, featured in the New Republic.
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Dream Corps and NAACP Get New Leaders
Vien Truong, director of the Dream Corps’s Green for All climate-justice program and Pritzker Award candidate, has been named chief executive officer.
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Warmer than normal July for the Bay Area
Elsewhere in California, summer has been searing, according to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, whose California Weather Blog provides perspectives on the state’s weather, climate, and regional environmental change.
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Cooking in the American south
Pritzker Award candidate, Micheal Twitty, writes a book about his journey through African-American culinary history in the south.
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BBC News – Greenland ice sheet
UCLA IoES professor Aradhana Tripati interviewed on BBC News about melting glaciers.
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Michael Twitty’s ‘The Cooking Gene’ Explores Intersection of Culture and Cuisine
(Pritzker candidate feature) Michael Twitty, writer, Judaic studies teacher, culinary historian and historical interpreter is a new kind of voice on the food scene. Twitty meshes cooking, food and history…
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Monsoons in Southern California? Here’s why it’s so cloudy
"I think a lot of people are always intrigued to find out there is, in fact, a monsoon in the desert Southwest,"said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and author of the California weather blog Weather West.
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Novel legal strategy underpins sea level rise lawsuits against oil and coal
“We’re in uncharted territory here pretty fundamentally,” said Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the UCLA law school’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. “The theory behind it is an interesting one: that essentially, petroleum products should be considered defective when used as directed because of the harms that they cause.”
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‘Most important vote’ set today for cap and trade
“I consider A.B. 398 to be a pretty good compromise and one that doesn’t threaten the environmental integrity of the climate program in any serious way,” said Cara Horowitz, co-director…
