Rob McDonald

Ideas

Keeping Conservation Relevant in the Urban Century

Ideas

How Can We Protect Endemic Species in the Face of Urban Growth?

Climate Change

Global Change and Urban/Agriculture Competition for Water

Climate Change

A Tale of Climate Change and Two Cities

Climate Change

Climate Change is Already Heating Up the World’s Cities

Ideas

Planting Healthy Air: Can Urban Trees Help Clean Up Pollution?

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Watershed Degradation Costs Global Cities $5.4 Billion in Water Treatment Annually

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Is Green Infrastructure Doomed to Underinvestment, Just Like Our Grey Infrastructure?

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Why Driverless Cars May Make Cities Sprawl Even More

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Why Stopping Urbanization Is Not Only Impossible, But Misses the Environmental Point

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Watershed Protection? There’s an App for That

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In Some Places, Environmentalists Should Be Arguing for More Development. Here’s Why.

Climate Change

Hot Times, Summer in the City: Understanding the Urban Heat Wave

Climate Change

Why the California Water Crisis is a Foretaste of Water Crises to Come