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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Kim Cobb (right) in the Berkshire Eagle panel (Credit Gillian Jones, The Berkshire Eagle)After climate scientist Kim Cobb learned that flying makes up 85 percent of her carbon footprint, she drastically cut down the time she spends on planes. This week, that decision led the Pittsfield native to take a train from her home in Atlanta to Springfield so she could participate in a community conversation on climate change at South Congregational Church. Cobb said she isn't "climate obsessed" because she thinks reducing her own footprint will save the world, but it does inspire her. "It fuels me forward in new ways," she said Thursday, at The Berkshire Eagle's Conversation Series event, which also was hosted by the Berkshire Museum. "It empowers me in new ways." Cobb, the Georgia Power chair and professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joined Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and City as Living Laboratory Director Olivia Georgia for an event that also was part of the museum's "Voices and Visionaries" program. Cobb is a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
