by Bee Moorhead | Dec 18, 2024 | Climate Justice, COP27, Creation Care, Faith Communities, Resources, Texas Climate & Energy
It’s hard for some communities to imagine that solar power could even be an option. But with these rebates and possibilities through the Inflation Reduction Act, there might be more opportunity here than they would expect. Rev. Garrett Vickrey Sr. Pastor,...
by Scott Atnip | Nov 20, 2024 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
This week we turn our attention to the other side of the globe as we welcome Texas Impact’s Climate Action Fellow, Rev. Dr. Becca Edwards to the program. Becca recently returned from the 29th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP), the global climate negotiations held...
by Scott Atnip | Sep 23, 2024 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
This week we are talking weather and climate from an interesting perspective as we welcome two former colleagues of our very own Dr. Becca Edwards. With us are Dr. Ian Giammanco who serves as Director of Standards and Data Analytics and Lead Research Meteorologist at...
by Becca Edwards | Jul 11, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
When I was in grad school, my job was to drive instrument towers to the coast when a hurricane was coming so we could collect high-frequency wind data that we could study to learn about how to make buildings more resilient to wind storms like hurricanes. I drove to a...
by Scott Atnip | May 31, 2024 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
We talk weather this week with Dr. Becca Edwards, Texas Impact’s Climate Action Fellow. Originally because we wanted to talk about Hurricane Season, which begins this weekend and runs through November, but seems like most of Texas has already endured at least one...
by Bobby Watson | Dec 9, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
One of the interesting aspects of COP is its ability to put certain issues into perspective. Often US and Texas officials characterize migration as a foreign phenomenon, where political fragility or economic strife causes residents of the Global South to migrate to...