EarthLab News
Green ways to keep food trucks clean
To bring attention to effective alternatives, experts from the University of Washington, a state agency and a nonprofit formed a team to identify and promote safer cleaning methods, starting with food trucks. Read more about the EarthLab-funded project, Clean SHiFT (Safety & Health in Food Trucks).
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Nature & Health Speaks: Beyond Inclusive Design with The Eli’s Park Project
On February 10th, University of Washington’s Nature and Health invited The Eli’s Park Project to share their inclusive design process through the Nature and Health Speaks series. Learn more about this project from Urban@UW.
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EarthLab and Population Health co-fund pilot grant to improve communication around smoke exposure in rural and Tribal communities
EarthLab and the Population Health Initiative have announced a new pilot research grant award to study how Tribal and non-Tribal communities in the Okanogan River Airshed Emphasis Area (ORAEA) receive and communicate information about smoke exposure.
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Surging snowpack can have positive impact on salmon, slow start to wildfire season
Powerful winter storms this season have made for terrible pass travel and avalanche danger. However, scientists say this surging snowpack will do wonders for our environment. Dr. Crystal Raymond, climate adaptation specialist, is quoted.
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Achoo! Climate Change Lengthening Pollen Season in U.S., Study Shows
This article, featuring a quote from Kristi Ebi (Center for Health and the Global Environment) was originally published in The New York Times.
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CHanGE Comes to EarthLab
New collaboration between UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) and EarthLab will accelerate climate research, action and resilience.
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Project to Create Anti-Racism Education Wins Mellon Grant
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, faculty advisor for EarthLab member organization Future Rivers and assistant professor in the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, is part of a team of academics that was recently awarded $5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).
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EarthLab Equity and Justice Reads: As Long as Grass Grows
EarthLab has selected As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker for our equity and justice book club this quarter.
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Innovative New Prizes Add to Competition Experience
EarthLab is proud to sponsor a prize at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, presented by Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The Community Impact Prize recognizes innovation in developing a product, solution, or demonstrated business model that mitigates or makes communities more resilient in the face of climate change while prioritizing equity and justice.
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For tribes, climate change fight is about saving culture
Climate Impacts Group Meade Crosby was quoted in this article.
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