lpalmer
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As Senior Fellow for Socio-Environmental Understanding, Lisa Palmer participates actively in the national and international discourse on socio-environmental issues through writing and publishing, speaking, developing and leading seminars, contributing to SESYNC’s digital presence, and offering analysis and science communications strategy to SESYNC synthesis teams, postdocs, and leadership. An award-winning journalist, she writes for publications such as the Nature family of journals, Yale E360, The Guardian, Nautilus, The New York Times, The New Republic, Ensia, Slate, and many others. She is the author of HOT, HUNGRY PLANET: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change (St. Martin’s Press; 2017). She was previously a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where she conducted research on global food security, resilience, and policies related to sustainable agriculture. In 2018, Palmer was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency on science for development. She is a professional member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association. She is a graduate of Boston University and Simmons College in Boston.
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| Hacking conservation: how a tech start-up aims to save biodiversity |
May 28, 2019 News feature published in Nature. |
| Meeting the leadership challenges for interdisciplinary environmental research |
Jul 16, 2018 Article published in Nature Sustainability. |
| Urban agriculture growth in US cities |
Jan 08, 2018 Article published in Nature Sustainability. |
| One Meal a Day:As Lake Chad vanishes, seven million people are on the brink of starvation |
Jun 26, 2017 Article published in New Republic. |
| Feeding a Hot, Hungry Planet |
May 22, 2017 Article published in Scientific American. |
| Adding Power to the Value of Trees |
Apr 11, 2017 Article in Nature: Energy. |
| Is soil the great new integrator? |
Mar 28, 2017 From the drought-plagued Valle del Cauca in Colombia to the High Plains of West Texas, farmers are learning to work with the land instead of against it. Article in Environmental Health News. |
| The Amazing Opportunity 2017 is Bringing to Business |
Jan 11, 2017 If we can show how sustainability drives value, the private sector can lead the way to a better world. Article in Ensia. |
| It’s Time To Stop Overspending Our Freshwater Budget |
Dec 14, 2016 If freshwater is to remain a renewable resource, we must balance supply and demand on farms, in cities, in industry and in power production. Article in Ensia. |
| Could Climate Change Keep Kids Out of School? |
Nov 03, 2016 Article in National Geographic: Voices. |