Earth Economics is preparing a study, funded by the SeaDoc Society, to identify the recreation and tourism values attached to Southern Resident Killer Whales, iconic and endangered residents of the Pacific Northwest.
This week Senior Economist Maya Kocian is attending the 5th Annual World Ocean Summit in Mexico to discuss how human activity must be balanced with the long-term health of oceans.
Snow supports much more than winter recreation. A new Earth Economics report, The Economic Benefits and Costs of Snow in the Upper Colorado Basin, points to some surprising ways that snow and snowpack benefit both the regional and national economy
What’s the value of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund cleanup? As one case study, we examined the Ruston Superfund site – where for nearly one hundred years a copper smelter emitted a toxic plume of heavy metals from Everett to Olympia.
This year flew by, and we're already looking ahead to another year of building resilient communities and healthy ecosystems. But we wanted to take a moment to mention a few of our proudest accomplishments from 2017:
Earth Economics has long managed a robust internship program that provides training and practical experience to undergraduate and post-doc students. Internship experiences have motivated graduate degrees, new career focuses and passions, and long term positions with Earth Economics. The following post was written by Alia Kabir, a 2017 Summer Intern and a current Senior at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, WA.
We recently published an online version of our 2016 Annual Report. Below is an excerpt, the "Letter from Our Leaders," which opens the report. The letter summarizes Earth Economics' recent accomplishments and lays out a bright vision for the future.
In this time of dysfunctional national and international governance, cities have a unique opportunity to fill a void in leadership. Can a group of U.S. and world cities model the kinds of networked, scalable solutions we need to create a more resilient world? One big-thinking international project is betting that cities can and will.