Environment

Summer/23

The Climate Vault banks on cap-and-trade markets to curtail carbon emissions.

Winter/21

Two College alumni, working in New York City, sparked a global trend in tracking sustainability.

Summer/20

Joseph Sax, JD’59 (1936–2014), helped establish the courts as a front line for environmental activism.

Winter/20

As the leader of UChicago’s energy policy and economic research institutes, Michael Greenstone, LAB’87, works to help the world confront the global energy challenge.

May–June/15

The impact of geochemist Clair C. Patterson, PhD’51, who determined the age of the earth and fought lead pollution.

May–June/15

Economist Michael Greenstone studies the human cost of China’s pollution in the Huai River Valley.