Creating Positive Change With Thoughtful Leadership: Meet Alicia Roman by Lindsay Key |March 8, 2021
Alicia Roman is the Earth Institute’s new executive director.
On January 4, Alicia Roman became the new executive director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. She comes to the institute with more than 20 years of experience in education administration in both the public and private sector, most recently serving as chief operating officer of the New York City Department of Education. She has also served as executive director of operations for Newark Public Schools, and director of finance and administration for Columbia University. Roman has a bachelor’s degree in English from William and Mary, a master’s degree in educational leadership and administration from the George Washington University, and is set to complete a doctorate in organizational leadership from the University of Southern California this year. We recently sat down with her to talk abo
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1000 Years of Droughts in America
By Andrew Lisa, Stacker News
On 3/6/21 at 8:00 AM EST
Defined by the National Weather Service as a shortage of water over an extended period of time, droughts are a normal and natural part of Earth s weather cycle. Sometimes, however, a lack of water is far more significant than just a cyclical dry spell. Although tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and fires are more dramatic and alarming, severe droughts are often far more widespread, more devastating, more expensive, and harder to manage than the violent natural disasters that tend to grab headlines. Making matters worse, droughts can create or encourage a range of secondary environmental catastrophes like fires, crop failures, mudslides, sinkholes, destroyed roadways, massive fish kills, locust swarms, and although it seems counterintuitive severe floods.
Start-up transforming carbon dioxide into stone
By Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir and Akshat Rathi / Bloomberg
A start-up in Iceland is tackling a key piece of the climate change puzzle by turning carbon dioxide into rocks, allowing the greenhouse gas to be stored forever instead of escaping into the atmosphere and trapping heat.
Reykjavik-based Carbfix captures and dissolves carbon dioxide in water, then injects it into the ground where it turns into stone in less than two years.
“This is a technology that can be scaled it’s cheap and economic and environmentally friendly,” Carbfix chief executive officer Edda Sif Pind Aradottir said in an interview. “Basically we are just doing what nature has been doing for millions of years, so we are helping nature help itself.”
(Bloomberg) A startup in Iceland is tackling a key piece of the climate change puzzle by turning carbon dioxide into rocks, allowing the greenhouse gas to be…