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A man sits in a garage surrounded by clutter.

Climate & Sustainability

How to Decide What to Keep and What to Let Go

A Tell Me More podcast shares stories about choosing what’s worth holding on to, from Dad’s books to old home movies to endangered animals

Illustration of Douglas McKeige

Business & Economics

Helping Capitalists Promote Clean Energy—and Profit from It

Douglas McKeige co-founded an online media company, The Climate Capitalist, to advise investors on climate-friendly opportunities for good financial returns.

Gina McCarthy, AG81, White House National Climate advisor, with U.S. Senator Ed Markey, H19, of Massachusetts, at a Tufts climate summit.

Climate & Sustainability

Climate Leaders Call for Urgent Action, Focus on Equity

White House advisor Gina McCarthy, AG81, and Senator Ed Markey, H19, speak at Massachusetts Climate Summit

A person carries a box filled with recyclable items.

Climate & Sustainability

Can I Recycle This Aluminum Foil? How About This Milk Carton?

Listen as Tufts University's recycling coordinator shares tips for being a better recycler and explains why the rules are so much more complicated than most...

Illustration of Benny Kim. He steers funding to entrepreneurial ventures that address climate change worldwide.

Climate & Sustainability

Investing in Green Tech Solutions that Benefit Vulnerable Communities

Benny Kim steers funding to entrepreneurial ventures that address climate change worldwide

Rodrick Wiggins stands outside Tufts School of Dental Medicine.

Climate & Sustainability

One Dental Student vs. One Billion Plastic Toothbrushes

Rodrick Wiggins, D22, is on a quest to recycle, and to make dentistry more eco-friendly

A plant-based meat-substitute patty on a bun with lettuce and tomato

Cellular Agriculture

Chewing Over the Meat Industry’s Future

From grass-fed beef to cellular agriculture, experts rethink the role of animals in the food supply

An illustration shows Audrey Ingolfsdottir, chair of the board of Iceland’s Vatnajokull National Park.

Climate & Sustainability

Managing Wilderness in Iceland as Climate Change Melts Its Glaciers

Audrey Ingolfsdottir balances tourism and environmental protection as board chair of Vatnajokull National Park

An illustration depicts George Behrakis, president of Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends.

Activism & Social Justice

Mobilizing Young Conservatives to Act on Climate Change

George Behrakis promotes a carbon dividend plan that would impose fees on polluting companies and rebate the revenue to taxpayers

An illustration depicts Keren Prize Bolter

Climate & Sustainability

Preparing for Rising Tides and Surging Storms

Keren Prize Bolter helps coastal communities plan for the impacts of climate change

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