Tag: Morgan Edwards

Campus partnership illuminates rooftop solar potential 

A group of researchers from the UW–Madison Office of Sustainability, the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies have partnered with two student organizations to assess potential locations on campus that might be suitable for solar panels.    “People frequently ask our office about rooftop solar,” said Josh Arnold, …

Systems modeling, electrification, and equitable energy access: A look into Morgan Edwards’s Climate Action Lab

This article, by Joie Ling, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. Walking around during graduate school at MIT, Morgan Edwards, who is …

Progress after dismay: a vertiginous summer for climate activists

At the start of the summer, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to the EPA’s ability to limit greenhouse gas emissions. By August, however, Congress swung back. UW–Madison students and professors process the back-and-forth and look to what it means for future climate action in the city and state. 350 Wisconsin, a Madison-based organization that …