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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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Victory is Won Through Many Advisers: Rad Byerly and the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer I interviewed Carol Byerly on the fourth anniversary of the death of Rad Byerly, her late husband, and the mood was solemn. But as we were sitting down to talk about Rad’s contribution to … Continue reading
The Environment After the Pandemic
by Fernando Briones, CSTPR Faculty AffiliateNexos, Spanish version The new coronavirus pandemic has prioritized health and economic crises, despite the fact that we should already be thinking about our long-term survival, not only as a country but as a species. The … Continue reading
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MeCCO Monthly Summary: This Historic Decline in Emissions is Happening For All the Wrong Reasons
Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO)April 2020 Summary April 2020 has marked an inflection point in our time on planet Earth. Amid these moments of history-making, media attention to climate change and global warming at the global level has continued to … Continue reading
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Tomorrow: Sharing Stories of the COVID-19 Experience…From Quarantine
by Daniel Zietlow1,2,3 and Ryan Vachon1,2,4 1CSTPR Research Affiliate2Provare Media3National Center for Atmospheric Research4Earth Initiatives Photo above: Filming: social distancing style! I was in a car traveling south on I-25 when I got a message from my director. We had … Continue reading
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#MakingOurCASE: Science Has a Place in Policy
by Spencer Zeigler, CSTPR Science Writer Each year, the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, with support from the CU Graduate School and the Center for STEM Learning, hosts a competition to send a small group of CU … Continue reading
Recipes for Change
by Beth OsnesCSTPR Faculty Affiliate and Associate Professor of Theatre and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado One of my great pleasures that is part of my research and creative work on creative climate communication is working with a group of … Continue reading
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How to Ruin a Party? Make it Political
by Colleen JohnsWinning entry from an op-ed contest in Matt Burgess’s ENVS 4100: Sustainable Economies class Photo: Arvada High School students marching for Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Photo: Dick Davis/Rocky Mountain News. Parties are generally fun. They bring … Continue reading
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Making Learning by Governments More Common
What Disaster Research Tells us About the U.S. COVID-19 Case Photo: RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post by Deserai Crow, School of Public Affairs, CU Denver and CSTPR Faculty Affiliate and Elizabeth Albright, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University We … Continue reading
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Steal This Joke: Uplifting Climate Comedy Celebrates Earth Day 2020
Mediumby Beth Osnes Actually, you can’t steal these jokes on climate change because we’re giving them to you for free. In fact, we’re going out of our way to encourage you to give climate comedy a try. If anything in … Continue reading
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Ogmius #55 – The Final Issue is Now Out
Issue #55, Spring 2020 Dear CSTPR community, I hope you’re all doing as well as you can in this challenging and pressurized times. Our heart goes out to everyone, especially those directly impacted by the novel coronavirus. Undoubtedly, the global … Continue reading →