Jonathan J. Halperin
Jonathan J. Halperin
Designing Our Future. Together.

Food, Agriculture, Water

Growing enough food, even distributing it, is not the underlying challenge of the future. But how can we do so without creating catastrophic consequences across global ecosystems?

USDA report to explicitly link climate change to health of U.S. ecosystems

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Listening just now to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speak in Copenhagen at Agriculture and Rural Development Day, I was reminded of how important meetings are to generating hard deadlines. According to Vilsack, the USDA will issue “The Effects of Climate Change on US Ecosystems” before President Obama travels here this coming week. While we cannot be sure, the report appears to be a serious effort, drawing in high-powered academic researchers, to examine the fundamental relationship between climate and ecosystems.
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Jonathan makes connections that other people miss. Beyond an understanding of any single environmental issue or energy challenge, he knows how to use knowledge to drive change, how to bring the right players to the table, and how to reframe seemingly intractable problems to create space for new approaches. He’s a strategic thinker with a very clear sense of how things work.

Ray Kopp
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy, Resources for the Future
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