McMillan: “Being a gardener you really feel the brunt of the volatility that’s now the reality of our climate.” That’s Patrick McMillan, the director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden. He says it’s gotten warmer in the 60 years since the garden was established. And there are wide swings in the amount of rainfall. For […]
Author Archives: Lisa Palmer
Lisa Palmer is a freelance journalist and a fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, SESYNC, in Annapolis, Md. Her writing covers the environment, energy, food security, agriculture, science, and business sustainability. She has been a regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections since 2008.
Her work has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, Slate Magazine, Nature Climate Change, Nature, Scientific American, Yale e360, FutureFood2050, and The New Security Beat.
Lisa is writing a book, Hot, Hungry Planet: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Gap, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. The book brings readers on a global journey that explores the human story behind the complex, hot-button issues of food security, energy security, social justice, and climate change. In June 2015 she begins a research fellowship at the National Science Foundation-funded National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), where she will write about interdisciplinary science.
Palmer has received grants and fellowships for her work from institutions such as the Woodrow Wilson Center, SESYNC, Solutions Journalism Network, Vermont Law School, the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland, the University of Montana, and the Education Writers Association. She earned her B.S. degree from Boston University and her M.S. from Simmons College in Boston.
She lives in Maryland near the Severn River at the edge of a nature preserve.