Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

This Thursday, April 10 join Cornell Atkinson to celebrate our 15 years at Cornell University 🎉 ⏰ April 10, 9am-4pm ET | Celebrating 15 years of Cornell Atkinson 💻 Online only: https://lnkd.in/eZ2FbVbc 🗣️ 20 experts will showcase research, collaborations, and partnerships that are driving sustainability solutions forward ⏰ April 10, 7:30-9pm ET | The Future of U.S. Climate Policy 📍 G-01 Gates Hall & online: https://lnkd.in/e7JNGQsS 🗣️ The keynote panel will feature: 🔴 Anne Thompson, NBC News Chief Environmental Correspondent, Spring 2025 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the Cornell University - College of Arts and Sciences (moderator) 🔴 Gina McCarthy, managing co-chair of the America Is All In coalition, first White House National Climate Advisor and former U.S. EPA Administrator 🔴 Mary Nichols, former chair of the California Air Resources Board and former Secretary for Natural Resources for California. We look forward to showcasing the work of Cornell Atkinson while celebrating the partnerships and researchers that make its work possible, including faculty in the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University: Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Cornell Engineering, Cornell Research & Innovation, and a vast network of strategic partnerships: Environmental Defense Fund Clean Air Task Force The Nature Conservancy ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd. TBGD Partners, LLC Frontier Co-op Nexwell Sunnking Sustainable Solutions.

A new study co-authored by Fellow Sara Bronin (Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning) predicts that thousands of homes in dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs will be lost to flooding by 2040. The research was supported by a 2023 Cornell Atkinson Innovation for Impact Fund award. Read More: https://lnkd.in/eD_XM-Az

Faculty Fellow Gustavo Flores-Macias (Cornell University - College of Arts and Sciences) in CNN https://lnkd.in/eUAXj2HP

Cornell researchers teaming up across disciplines found that pasteurized milk is safe, even if it comes from a contaminated farm. Learn how Cornell research is making an impact. www.cornell.edu/research/

Missed our 15th anniversary celebration? Good news - you can catch the livestream! Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eRfbMcZ9

We're nearly there! 97% of all SWOF-enrolled fields have been visited for verification, with just a few snowy northern fields left to go. This week’s #fridayfieldphotos highlight great work from our enrolled farmers in Minnesota, Georgia, and our friends at the New York Outcomes Fund! Here our farmers are utilizing several forms of reduced tillage and cover crops, including wheat, cereal rye, and sudangrass. In-person field visits are a critical part of our compliance process, ensuring accuracy and trust in the environmental outcomes we deliver to our partners. . Cargill, New York Corn & Soybean Growers Association, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability . #fieldphotomadness #covercrops #conservation #regenag #agriculture #soilhealth #waterquality #scope3 #mrv

Faculty Fellow Maha Haji (Cornell Engineering) who has designed mineral filters that could be hung from abandoned oil rigs to pull cobalt from the Gulf of Mexico, thinks seawater mining has the potential to fundamentally reshape how the world sources its minerals. https://lnkd.in/eySqnk2G

🐻🌎 I attended the 15 year celebration of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability !! the Atkinson Center brings together multi-disciplinary teams (ie scientists, economists, engineers, policy, industry, nonprofits), to solve complex multi-disciplinary problems in sustainability (ie energy, food, climate, one health!) for example, one project recycles batteries to reduce the harmful battery waste in landfills (partnering up a biology lab in CALS, with an battery lab in Engineering, and a battery recycling company in Ithaca)!! they came up with a new microbe that can digest the batteries and make it reusable for new batteries, in a profitable way!! (and there's hundreds of these projects, in all kinds of areas!! if you're in industry or nonprofit, please reach out to Patrick Beary to partner!!) it was held in the brand new Atkinson building!! (next to the Dairy Bar and Botanic Gardens!!)! I was so impressed by the natural design of the building (carpets look like moss on top of stone, the walls and ceiling look like trees, the windows look like rainwater, there's even a wetland in the backyard!) congrats to Atkinson Center director's David M. Lodge on his retirement, he delivered a wonderful lecture on Research Funding, from the inception of the National Science Foundation in 1940s to today! It's important that research continues to get funded, so that it could lead to more real world impact! I'll be on Cornell Campus today 4/11, I really hope to see you! my Google maps location is in the comments, text me 202-415-5342 when you are close by, and I will come meet you!! here's my schedule for today: - Entrepreneurship Celebration, Statler, 9am-5pm - Cornell Business Impact Symposium, Statler, 3pm-8pm - walk around Central Campus and North Campus, 8pm-11pm

Avi Zevin recently concluded his service in the Biden Administration, most recently as Special Assistant to the President for Clean Energy Implementation, working with John Podesta and the White House team to advance policies and programs—principally those enacted by the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Here from him on Monday, April 14th, at 2:55pm. Register here: https://lnkd.in/evwvzTaf

Listen to Faculty Fellow Rick Geddes (Cornell University: Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy) on Marketplace: https://lnkd.in/gb7pYG63