William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
@wclark.bsky.social
#Sustainability science and knowledge systems focus as researcher and teacher at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. More at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustainability-science-program
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I really think that post-Trump the US should erect a statue of a naked Trump to remind themselves
August 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I really think that post-Trump the US should erect a statue of a naked Trump to remind themselves
RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links
RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...
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July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
Risk analysis now needed of relative vulnerability of these forest age groups to climate-related and other stresses, as noted by authors (e.g. Anderegg, W. R. L., et al. (2022). A climate risk analysis of Earth’s forests in the 21st century. Science, 377(6610), 1099–1103. doi.org/10.1126/scie... )
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Risk analysis now needed of relative vulnerability of these forest age groups to climate-related and other stresses, as noted by authors (e.g. Anderegg, W. R. L., et al. (2022). A climate risk analysis of Earth’s forests in the 21st century. Science, 377(6610), 1099–1103. doi.org/10.1126/scie... )
The super-funding of T&Co.'s own paramilitary -- otherwise known as ICE -- is for me the scariest part of the BBBill. Read here for Kovensky's reporting and Skocpol's historical analysis .This story needs more & wider coverage. Please help to spread the word.
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Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
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July 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The super-funding of T&Co.'s own paramilitary -- otherwise known as ICE -- is for me the scariest part of the BBBill. Read here for Kovensky's reporting and Skocpol's historical analysis .This story needs more & wider coverage. Please help to spread the word.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
"Teaching sustainable development" is a workshop that @alicia-harley.bsky.social and I will be running at the National Sustainability Society ( #NSS @the-nss.bsky.social) conference in October. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
Couldn’t have said it better. | William Clark
Couldn’t have said it better. Please share your own syllabi and approaches to learning and teaching this exciting and important subect
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June 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Teaching sustainable development" is a workshop that @alicia-harley.bsky.social and I will be running at the National Sustainability Society ( #NSS @the-nss.bsky.social) conference in October. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...
Authoritative reminder that the important thing is not whether you benefit from T & Co’s actions, but rather their systematic & intentional violation of the law - not least the separation of powers in the Constitution & the protections in the Bill of Rights.
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The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
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May 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Authoritative reminder that the important thing is not whether you benefit from T & Co’s actions, but rather their systematic & intentional violation of the law - not least the separation of powers in the Constitution & the protections in the Bill of Rights.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"Just..."?
More & more convinced that the Forgiveness Scene in Figaro is the exception that proves the rule that Mozart never Subverts his librettists, all the Profound Issues & Character Development that critics like to talk about in Così are already in the words, he just makes them matter
April 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Just..."?
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
Very much worth reading in its entirety on how to think about protests, protest numbers, and what is changing. Thanks!
1 / Going into what’s expected to be a big weekend of protests around the US, my team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam & Chris Shay) has issued our monthly data release. TLDR: protest in the US is growing at an impressive pace. A few key highlights:
April 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Very much worth reading in its entirety on how to think about protests, protest numbers, and what is changing. Thanks!
Brilliant reflections on being there and its importance for the journey ahead. Wow!
My talk yesterday, interspersed with images of those more than 1200 protests nationwide. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...
Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...
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April 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Brilliant reflections on being there and its importance for the journey ahead. Wow!
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Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
April 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
Prof. Selin's election as a #AAASFellow is a well deserved honor and, together with her leadership of the new MIT "Center for #Sustainability Science and Strategy," great news for efforts to bring science to bear on advancing solutions to the challenges of #sustainabledevelopment. 🧪
Congrats to MIT CS3 Director Noelle Selin for being elected a #AAASFellow for “world-recognized leadership in modeling the impacts of air pollution on human health, in assessing the costs and benefits of related policies, and in integrating technology dynamics into #sustainability science.”
Noelle Selin elected to 2024 class of AAAS Fellows
Noelle Selin, professor of atmospheric chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), was elected as a Fellow of...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Prof. Selin's election as a #AAASFellow is a well deserved honor and, together with her leadership of the new MIT "Center for #Sustainability Science and Strategy," great news for efforts to bring science to bear on advancing solutions to the challenges of #sustainabledevelopment. 🧪
CAPACITY BUILDING TO PROMOTE #EQUITY FOR #SUSTAINABILITY
Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC), Sharmila Murthy, (former Dir for Environmental Justice at White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). 🧪
Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC), Sharmila Murthy, (former Dir for Environmental Justice at White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). 🧪
Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Capacity to promote equity both within and among generations
This seminar is the fourth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.
www.hks.harvard.edu
March 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
CAPACITY BUILDING TO PROMOTE #EQUITY FOR #SUSTAINABILITY
Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC), Sharmila Murthy, (former Dir for Environmental Justice at White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). 🧪
Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC), Sharmila Murthy, (former Dir for Environmental Justice at White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). 🧪
Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Reposted by William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
Trump’s latest attack on Black communities is his dismantling of the EPA’s environmental justice offices—eliminating protections for communities poisoned by corporate pollution. @shalisemyoung.bsky.social discusses the latest public health failure.
The pernicious end of the EPA's environmental justice office
The president and his cronies have been seem to have been taking aim at Black Americans since Day 1.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump’s latest attack on Black communities is his dismantling of the EPA’s environmental justice offices—eliminating protections for communities poisoned by corporate pollution. @shalisemyoung.bsky.social discusses the latest public health failure.
Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born
March 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born
Carney previously led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures ( www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... ) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.
Carney previously led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures ( www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... ) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.
March 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Carney previously led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures ( www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... ) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.
Carney previously led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures ( www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... ) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.
Reposted by William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
March 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reposted by William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
March 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
Reposted by William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
Nice statement from NAS President Marcia McNutt on the need for science based analysis for policy decisions. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...
www.nationalacademies.org
March 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Nice statement from NAS President Marcia McNutt on the need for science based analysis for policy decisions. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...
CAPACITY TO TRANSFORM DEVELOPMENT toward #SUSTAINABILITY
Virtual seminar on 3/12 with Steve Nicholls (SAfrica Climate Com), Chuck Rumsey (Ecotrust Canada) & Amanda Woodrum (ReImagine Appalachia), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).🧪
Registration & info here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Virtual seminar on 3/12 with Steve Nicholls (SAfrica Climate Com), Chuck Rumsey (Ecotrust Canada) & Amanda Woodrum (ReImagine Appalachia), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).🧪
Registration & info here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Capacity to transform unsustainable development pathways into sustainable ones
This seminar is the third in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.
www.hks.harvard.edu
March 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
CAPACITY TO TRANSFORM DEVELOPMENT toward #SUSTAINABILITY
Virtual seminar on 3/12 with Steve Nicholls (SAfrica Climate Com), Chuck Rumsey (Ecotrust Canada) & Amanda Woodrum (ReImagine Appalachia), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).🧪
Registration & info here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Virtual seminar on 3/12 with Steve Nicholls (SAfrica Climate Com), Chuck Rumsey (Ecotrust Canada) & Amanda Woodrum (ReImagine Appalachia), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).🧪
Registration & info here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Reposted by William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Reposted by William Clark (william_clark@hks.harvard.edu)
literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
www.epa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
CAPACITY TO ADAPT IN SUPPORT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Virtual seminar on Feb. 26 featuring Carolyn Kousky (EDF), Aditi Mukherji (CGIAR), and Claudia Thyme (IDF). Moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration and additional information available here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Virtual seminar on Feb. 26 featuring Carolyn Kousky (EDF), Aditi Mukherji (CGIAR), and Claudia Thyme (IDF). Moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration and additional information available here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Capacity to adapt development pathways to protect human well-being
This seminar is the second in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.
www.hks.harvard.edu
February 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
CAPACITY TO ADAPT IN SUPPORT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Virtual seminar on Feb. 26 featuring Carolyn Kousky (EDF), Aditi Mukherji (CGIAR), and Claudia Thyme (IDF). Moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration and additional information available here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
Virtual seminar on Feb. 26 featuring Carolyn Kousky (EDF), Aditi Mukherji (CGIAR), and Claudia Thyme (IDF). Moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration and additional information available here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...
CAPACITY TO MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (NatCap Project) & Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration & additional information available here:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...
Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (NatCap Project) & Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration & additional information available here:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...
February 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
CAPACITY TO MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (NatCap Project) & Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration & additional information available here:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...
Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (NatCap Project) & Alicia Harley (Harvard).
Registration & additional information available here:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...
Postdoc Program at Univ of Minnesota’s Inst on the Environment (IonE)
For interdisciplinary research in sustainability.
Visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship "Apply Here" page: sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione... . Deadline Feb 2.
Please reach out to ione-research@umn.edu with any questions
For interdisciplinary research in sustainability.
Visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship "Apply Here" page: sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione... . Deadline Feb 2.
Please reach out to ione-research@umn.edu with any questions
Apply Here
Cohort 3 (2025-27)
Applications Open:
Link to Application Form
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January 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Postdoc Program at Univ of Minnesota’s Inst on the Environment (IonE)
For interdisciplinary research in sustainability.
Visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship "Apply Here" page: sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione... . Deadline Feb 2.
Please reach out to ione-research@umn.edu with any questions
For interdisciplinary research in sustainability.
Visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship "Apply Here" page: sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione... . Deadline Feb 2.
Please reach out to ione-research@umn.edu with any questions