
Peter Friederici
Peter Friederici is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science, nature, and the environment from his home in Arizona. His articles, essays, and books tell stories of people, places, and the links between them.
Why have we been slow to address climate change? It comes down to story–how we understand the world through story, and how when the world is telling us things we don’t want to know we desperately look for stories that will help us through our mental discomfort. That’s the subject of Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope, my new book from MIT Press.
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It’s well known that extracting natural gas for fuel contributes to global warming. But animals that live where these resources are mined face another problem: excessive noise.
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With my NAU colleague Kurt Lancaster, I researched and produced a short film about the role that wildfire plays in the ecology of Grand Canyon forests and woodlands. Commissioned by the National Park Service.
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What do you do when the systems we use to bring food into the country are wasteful? If you’re Yolanda Soto in Nogales, Arizona, you get to work and share.
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