Katherine Ellison
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Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent now specializing in environmental reporting. She is co-author, with Gretchen C. Daily, of The New Economy of Nature.
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Tackling climate change at the local level 0
Posted 7 years, 3 months agoSister Evelyn Mattern had two goals in mind as she stood vigil recently with a Protestant colleague in a gas mask, singing, "This Air is My Air!" at the North Carolina statehouse.
Her short-term aim was to lend support to stricter regulations for the state's coal-fired power plants. Yet she also had a loftier, long-range objective, one increasingly shared by a wide array of activists: to transform the way Americans think about energy in time to stave off global warming.
"I don't think we're going to have a mass movement anytime soon, but I don't think it takes that many… Read More