Alissa Greenberg

Alissa Greenberg is a freelance writer based in Berkeley. She writes about science, culture, and hidden histories for publications including TIME, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. Her skills include navigating foreign transit systems, losing sunglasses, and detecting Boston accents from a mile away.

A group of kids gather around two students presenting their project at Y-PLAN Resilient by Design Youth Challenge Summit. | Emmanuel Moran/Y-PLAN

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Earth Focus

Students Offer Holistic Solutions to Bay Area Climate Change Challenges

Students from all backgrounds offer their ideas on how to address sea level rise in their own communities throughout the Bay Area.

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Big Cities

How An Old Dairy Farm Became the Green Lung of Hong Kong

In a Hong Kong where enormous banyan trees shade the ruins of one of the world’s first industrial dairy farms, citizens are taking a greater stance in protecting their cultural heritage and endangered wildlife.

Link Voices

Foreign Correspondent

Cinemondo

Earth Focus

Four Corners

America ReFramed

Tending Nature

Link Voices

Foreign Correspondent

Cinemondo

Earth Focus

Four Corners

America ReFramed

Tending Nature

Alissa Greenberg

Students Offer Holistic Solutions to Bay Area Climate Change Challenges

How An Old Dairy Farm Became the Green Lung of Hong Kong