Planning is underway to site huge floating wind farms along California’s coast, including offshore Humboldt County, to help the state reach its goals of 100 percent clean energy. But these plans underline one of the key questions for California climat . . .

George Wuerthner is an ecologist who worked for many years at the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is the author of 38 books on the environment and natural history including Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, Keeping the Wild: Against the Dom . . .

Ranjit Deshmukh will explore the opportunities and challenges posed by a large scale transition to renewable energy in developing economies — from the economic and environmental impacts of India’s ambitious renewable energy targets to the potential of . . .

Sarah D. Wald is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and English at the University of Oregon and the author of The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl. Wald, an interdisciplinary scholar of US literature a . . .

Amy Cordalis is General Counsel for the Yurok Tribe. She comes from a long line of Yurok Indians from the village of Requa at the mouth of the Klamath River, who have fought for Yurok rights: her great-uncle's Supreme Court case, Mattz v. Arnett, conf . . .

For the opening presentation in this fall's Speaker Series, soil scientist Debbie Page-Dumroese will discuss the use of biochar to sequester carbon and improve soil resilience. Biochar is a porous, high-carbon material derived from exposing biomass to . . .

Kivalina, Alaska, is pursuing planned community relocation to adapt to the realities of a climate changed–world in the Arctic. Relocation plans encompass a comprehensive strategy to protect the village from present and future climate harms, improve cu . . .