Kimberly Nicholas - Profile and Journalist Details

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Dr. Kimberly Nicholas is Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund, Sweden’s highest-ranked university. She is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World (Putnam/Penguin Random House, March 2021), and writes for publications including Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist, Decanter, and Carbon Brief. She publishes a monthly climate newsletter on linking facts, feelings, and actions for climate, We Can Fix It. In her research, she studies the connections between people, land, and climate, with the goal of stewarding ecosystems to support a good life for everyone alive today, and leave a thriving planet for future generations. She has published over 55 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals. Her research has been honored with the Innovation in Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America and as one of the top five Milestone articles published in Environmental Research Letters since 2005. Her professional mission is to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, and to inform, empower, and inspire ordinary people to join Team Climate. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Recent engagements have included livestreamed events for thousands of people such as the launch of a new European Union Climate Action program and a webinar by New Scientist. ​ Her research has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today, Buzzfeed and more, and she has been profiled in Elle, New Scientist, Science, and The Guardian. Born and raised on her family’s vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. Her current research projects include a collaboration with the Municipality of Lund to radically reduce climate pollution; The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground, studying the flight-free movement in Sweden; and using digital communication to improve traveler satisfaction with public transport. She recently concluded a five-year investigation of sustainable food systems in Europe, including the first comprehensive mapping of €61 billion of annual public spending under the Common Agricultural Policy. She recently co-taught the course "Storytelling for Science in the Climate and Ecological Emergencies." She has taught courses in the LUMES masters' program including Earth Systems Science, focused on climate science and solutions; Rural Systems and Sustainability; Quantitative Methods in Sustainability Science; and Writing for Change. She has mentored over 30 masters' students, as well as half a dozen PhD students and several postdocs.

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Total articles 112

• Localize!

  By Kimberly Nicholas

  Feb. 28, 2025

• Work Less

  By Kimberly Nicholas, Zeke Hausfather

  Jan. 30, 2025

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