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Originally created in 2004, Prometheus is a project of University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. Prometheus is designed to create an informal outlet for news, information, and opinion on science and technology policy.-
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- Orbital-Use Fees Could More Than Quadruple the Value of the Space Industry
- Ogmius #55 – The Final Issue is Now Out
- Victory is Won Through Many Advisers: Rad Byerly and the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award
- Why Climate Communicators Are Turning Talking Points into Punchlines
- The Environment After the Pandemic
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Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program
Improving Environmental Communication and Adaptation Decision-Making in the Humanitarian Sector Application Deadline: February 1, 2018 CU-Boulder has partnered with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC) to place graduate students in locations in eastern and southern Africa each summer. … Continue reading
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New Funding to Support Interdisciplinary Research on Landscape Change and Population Mobility
CSTPR faculty affiliate, Amanda Carrico’s Environment and Behavior Lab at CU Boulder recently received a $1.5M grant from the NSF’s Coupled Natural and Human Systems program. The project System Dynamics Related to Livelihood, Human Migration, and Landscape Evolution will examine … Continue reading
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Inside the Greenhouse Newsletter, Issue #8
Issue 8 | August 2017 Subscribe to ITG Newsletters In these uncertain times, Inside the Greenhouse works to deepen our understanding of how issues associated with climate change are/can be communicated, by creating artifacts through interactive theatre, film, fine art, … Continue reading
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St. Vrain Valley Students Make Film on Climate Change at CU Boulder
The CIRES Education and Outreach group hosted a series of science camps for youth in Colorado, called the Lens on Climate Change (LOCC). CSTPR and CU FIRST (Faculty-In-Residence Summer Term) Scholar, Bienvenido León, gave a talk on and students showcased … Continue reading
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CSTPR Welcomes Professor Bienvenido León, FIRST Scholar
Professor Bienvenido León joins CSTPR for this summer. He is visiting through the Faculty in Residence Summer Teaching program (FIRST) in the Office of Continuing Education at CU Boulder. This is a collaboration with ENVS and Inside the Greenhouse. Bienvenido is … Continue reading
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Perceptions of the Effects of Floods and Droughts on Livelihoods: Lessons from Arid Kenya
Product of CSTPR’s Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC) internship program by Amy Quandt and Yunus Antony Kimathi International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management Vol. 9 Issue: 03, pp.337-351 (2017) The purpose of this paper is to … Continue reading
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Barn Swallow Research in China
Rebecca Safran (co-founder of CSTPR’s Inside the Greenhouse project), along with Liz Scordato (a post-doc in the Safran Lab), travelled to China in May 2017 to meet up with Dr. Liu Yu. They are traveling with Dr. Emilio Pagani-Núñez, a … Continue reading
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Navigating Climate Change – A Communications Challenge by Max Boykoff
[video] 40:14 The realization that climate change is bound to deeply disrupt our future hasn’t set in yet in the US, in large part due to a longstanding propaganda campaign by the fossil fuel lobby to sew doubt. CU Boulder … Continue reading
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More than Scientists: Quitting is a Privilege
Quitting is a privilege Phaedra Pezzullo, University of Colorado Boulder We have a lot of admiration for Phaedra’s approach: “I think quitting is a privilege. If you listen to the people most impacted by environmental disasters and climate disasters, they … Continue reading
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Ogmius, Issue 47 is Now Out
Ogmius Issue #47, Summer 2017 This issue of Ogmius features an article by Elizabeth Koebele, a former CSTPR graduate student who recently received her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies and will begin a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department … Continue reading →