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UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Nov 20, 2025

AI-Powered Weather Forecasting: The New Frontier of Climate Intelligence

Anisha Jain (Harris '26) explores the possibilities and responsibilities presented by AI-based weather models.
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Nov 13, 2025

Why European Cities Still Struggle to Adapt to Climate Change

Iris Badezet-Delory (College '27) explores three obstacles preventing cities from effectively adapting to climate change and shares alternative planning strategies.
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Nov 6, 2025

Chicago Spotlight: Reclaiming the Chicago River

Rachel Suominen explores the history of the Chicago River and the groups working to restore it.
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Oct 30, 2025

Addressing Environmental Inequities in Chicago: Challenges and Recent Sustainability Progress

Tatjana Washington explores Chicago's historic environmental inequities and some of the City's recent sustainability projects.
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Oct 2, 2025

From Optics to Outcomes: Can India trade performative climate action for real solutions?

From staged sapling plantings to headline-grabbing beach clean-ups, India’s climate discourse often privileges optics over impact, writes Saniya Lopes. Without a shift toward systemic, evidence-based interventions, its cities will continue to suffocate under smog, flood in monsoons, and struggle against...
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Sep 25, 2025

Climate Bipartisanship in a Polarized America: Can Common Ground Be Found?

Bipartisan cooperation can still shape US climate policy through economics, state-led initiatives, innovations, and coalitions, writes Iris Badezet-Delory (College '27).
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Sep 19, 2025

Red, Blue, and Default Green: How Behavioral Science Can Depoliticize Climate

Anisha Jain (Harris '26) writes that setting sustainable choices as the default and reframing communications to promote co-benefits can aid progress on climate.
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Sep 12, 2025

Climate communication: How can we bridge divides?

Rachel Suominen (Harris '26) provides thoughts on communicating about climate change with people with different views.
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Sep 5, 2025

Virtual Power Plants: How The Power Inside Our Homes Can Stabilize the Grid

Taking advantage of distributed energy resources is key to our grid's future, writes Alexandra Costo (College '28).
UChicago Sustainability Dialogue·Aug 27, 2025

Save it for Later: Storing Energy on the US Power Grid

Jon-Edward Stokes (PME '30) examines future energy storage technologies to enable a more reliable and sustainable grid.