IN THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION, climate change conversations are associated with vast landscapes — oceans, glaciers, rainforests — not local school yards or neighborhood parks. But according to the panelists who spoke Monday at the Commonwealth Club, a public discussion forum in San Francisco, those neighborhood green spaces are crucial for maintaining our connection to nature […]
Author Archives: Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News
Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.
