Jonathan Mingle is the author of Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity and Survival on the Roof of the World. His writing on the environment, climate and development has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a recipient of the American Alpine Club's Zach Martin Breaking Barriers Award, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. He lives in Vermont.Jonathan Mingle is the author of Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity and Survival on the Roof of the World. His writing on the environment, climate and development has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a recipient of the American Alpine Club's Zach Martin Breaking Barriers Award, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. He lives in Vermont....more
Miranda Fox of Earthjustice recently interviewed me about my new book, the plucky villagers of Kumik in north India, and how reducing black carbon offers a way forward to simultaneously fight climate change, the public health scourge of air pollution and energy poverty.
One of the lessons we could draw from folks in Kumik, to tackle these global problems: "They have this clear understanding that t
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