Tag: Energy

Expensive utilities and pests are deeply intertwined. Why is no one talking about it?

Gabriel Gadsden joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the intersection of rodent infestations and energy justice and how we can simultaneously tackle both issues.

Carolyn Ramírez joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the importance of old growth trees and the environmental justice implications of forest management.

Nsilo Berry is Health Impact Researcher for Healthy Building Network, where he works to research the health associated outcomes of building products in historically marginalized communities, as well as the environment. Previously, Nsilo worked with nonprofit organizations such as Global Health Brigades and Power-Up Gambia, where he was responsible for sustainable health projects in Central America and Africa.

Carolyn E. Ramírez completed their Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Northwestern University in June of 2022. They studied physical organic chemistry in graduate school, focusing on nonlinear spectroscopy of artificial photosynthetic compounds for use in solar cells.

Gabriel is a native of North Carolina and a Ph.D. student of Environmental Sciences at Yale University's School of the Environment, interested in the interface of energy justice, urban ecology, and health. For his dissertation, he focuses on how disparities in energy-efficient housing are affecting urban rodent disease and allergen exposure in Philadelphia.

Para quienes cocinan con combustibles de biomasa, la pobreza es un problema de salud ambiental.

For those cooking with biomass fuels, poverty is an environmental health issue.

Combatir la pobreza energética y la inseguridad energética son elementos fundamentales para lograr la equidad en materia de salud ambiental para miles de millones de personas en todo el mundo.

Combating energy poverty and energy insecurity are critical elements to achieving environmental health equity for billions worldwide.