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Kendra Pierre-Louis

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Kendra Pierre-Louis’s Biography

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Kendra's work focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment. For example, too much time spent indoors harms eye development, and that a stroll through the woods can lower blood pressure, and improve concentration? At the same time, some interactions with nature are unpleasant as anyone who has ever encountered a mosquito knows. Similarly, the blame for species extinction, the loss of healthy fertile land, forest destruction, erosion of fresh water supplies, and, yes, climate c…

Kendra Pierre-Louis’s Journalist Portfolio

How Civic Science Is Changing Environmentalism

How Civic Science Is Changing Environmentalism

No doctorate required; you too can be a civic scientist and save the planet.

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A Ramble Through the Woods Can Help Beat Stress-Related Health Issues

A Ramble Through the Woods Can Help Beat Stress-Related Health Issues

The Japanese concept of Shinrin-yoku, or "forest bathing", is now supported by a growing body of research whi…

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The Rye Bread You Didn't Know About - Modern Farmer

The Rye Bread You Didn't Know About - Modern Farmer

Iceland's food oddities like Hákarl, or rotted, fermented shark, often garner the lion's share of the island'…

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Spinning Round and Round - The Magazine

Spinning Round and Round - The Magazine

People who meet Torbjørn C. Pedersen soon start to ask him “why?” — and repeatedly. Why at the age of 35 has …

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Green Washed | Ig Publishing

Green Washed | Ig Publishing

"Kendra Pierre-Louis shows that consumer choices really do matter, but often not the way we think. Green Wash…

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The best science books to read this summer, according to Scientific American editors

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By Kendra Pierre-Louis Verified, Sushmita Pathak Verified, Alex Sugiura, Rachel Feltman, Brianne Kane
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Feltman: Yeah, it's also not even our first recommended book involving queer physics this year . [Laughs.] Kane: Exactly. There's something happening in physics, and I'm really excited about it. I mean, this—it's really heartfelt, it's really relatable, but it's also a really fast read. Like, it's really not that long, and I flew through it. I thought it was incredible. Feltman: Well, and that leads me to an important question, which is: What makes something a good beach read to you?
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By Kendra Pierre-Louis Verified
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
After the Big Climate Summits Are Over Reviewed By In Paul Almeida's Climate Change and Civic Engagement, the only pathway forward is broad worker-based civic alliances that go beyond narrow elite-driven technological decarbonization. Summer 2026
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After the Big Climate Summits Are Over fetchAndInjectHTML('/defer-load/edit-this/20002', document.currentScript);

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By Kendra Pierre-Louis Verified
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Climate Change and Civic Engagement: The Origins and Future of the Climate Justice Movement Paul Almeida 262 pages, University of California Press, 2026 Buy the book » When the United Nations COP 95 ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, it ignited a tiny spark of hope: Nearly the whole world had collectively committed to cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions in an attempt to stave off the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Hell yeah! My elementary school demanded typewritten reports but I didn't get my 1st computer till high school.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Not quite a journalist, but Bartleby the Scrivener rates pretty high.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

brain, thesaurus, public library, telephone, laptop computer, excel, google refine, and increasingly R and Python, datarefine,