Kate Anderson

Senior Farms & Forests researcher at @Sightline

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

The biggest corn harvest in U.S. history isn't all good news. I crunched the numbers on how much oversupply hurts farmers, taxpayers, and the environment.

https://t.co/DEJi3BEyut

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Op-ed: Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days for Food, Farming, and Fairness via @CivilEats https://t.co/WfOA9wiFvU

[Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen]

There are no words. Jasper is burned to the ground. 💔

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Postdoc-to-tenure track position in Agroecology and Biodiversity. Could be a great opportunity at the forefront of agroecology!
https://t.co/ApTGRclrtN

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Join us on Wednesday, June 26 at Fjallraven's Downtown Seattle store for a screening of "Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change." More info: https://t.co/4SlXgiN83X

@SeaWolfBakers
@utopia_wa

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

LGBTQIA+ people are on the frontlines of climate justice. Join us on Wednesday, June 26 at Fjallraven's Downtown Seattle store for a screening of "Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change." More info: https://t.co/4SlXgiN83X

@SeaWolfBakers
@utopia_wa

[Sightline Institute @Sightline]

Fire-hardening new construction is what will save us as fire weather intensifies every year.

Building a new home to wildfire code costs roughly the same as building a non-hardened home – but retrofitting an existing home costs more.

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Hope paid off. We're hitting peak fossil fuel demand.
🌞💨💝
That means if we keep supporting solar, wind, heat pumps, and EVs, we'll use less and less oil and gas every year. Yay!

https://t.co/woltK4DbKf

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Tomorrow (May 7) $1 per pint will be donated to Sightline at Reuben’s Brews Fremont taproom. Bring your friends, dogs, and your friends’ dogs. My Sightline colleagues and I will be there starting at 4pm. See you there! https://t.co/rvtsVTsixG

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Karuk cultural fire practices return beneficial fire to the land – and show how to respect tribal cultural and political sovereignty, too. Check out the latest article in my series about managing climate-intensified wildfires.
https://t.co/LLifmX7rKX

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

The question remains, how to help homeowners who bought before wildfires were so dangerous? Elderly people on fixed incomes. People whose lives would be ravaged if their uninsured home burned down or their mortgage was cancelled because they can’t get insurance.

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

My friends in Santa Rosa, CA just lost their home insurance. Devastating. The question is: How can we help existing homes with wildfire insurance without signaling to developers: “Go ahead, build in risky places, we’ll take care of the insurance!”
https://t.co/6eoxQIix40

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

But subsidizing risky development does the opposite. Politically, removing subsidies for ex-urban growth is probably the easiest way to redirect growth away from climate risks. https://t.co/wDVbiDdXpj

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

Just a stunning view of prescribed fire in Yosemite yesterday. Cheers to all involved. Absolutely love to see this kind of work.
#cafire #cali #California #wildfire
📷 : @YosemiteFire

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Looking for a hopeful perspective on climate change?

The Karuk Climate Adaptation Plan is a masterpiece of heart and science, with TEK on every page, and detailed restoration guidelines for 22 cultural indicator species, e.g. tanoak mushrooms.

https://t.co/28idlZZwJ0

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Additives in ruminant diets have a *small* role, but don’t get distracted from main solution (shrink production & consumption)

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

Takeaways:
👀All eyes on meat & dairy’s emissions
🥇#1 solution = shrink meat and dairy, globally
👯Vegans (v̵e̵r̵s̵u̵s̵) and omnivores together
🥬Healthy diets = less meat & dairy = less GHG
🧮Sen’s Nobel in economics: hunger is more about politics than global quantity of food

[Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) @IATP]

Just announced! IATP will be hosting a webinar on our Emissions Impossible report series on June 15. What have we learned since 2018 about big meat & dairy’s climate impact from a rights & environmental justice perspective, and what comes next? Register: https://t.co/oyxoOfS4p0

[Kate Anderson @CollaborKate]

-We need a just transition (retrain, re-tool)
-Question private carbon accounting (eg Nestle)
-It’s not about individual behavior change
-Stop subsidizing livestock
-Work together, at the global-system to avoid leakage and inequity