Debbie Weyl
Debbie Karpay Weyl is a Manager for the Buildings Initiative at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. She leads an expanding global partnership to accelerate building energy efficiency in cities around the world. She also contributes to program management and development, research, and knowledge exchange for urban energy efficiency and sustainability.
Debbie joined WRI from CLASP, a global non-profit organization that improves the environmental and energy performance of appliances, lighting and equipment. From 2011-2016 Debbie managed and developed global programs, led research projects, and facilitated collaboration among international experts and other representatives in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Prior to joining CLASP, Debbie worked at the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where she was a contractor supporting building efficiency and other energy efficiency programs in the United States.
Debbie holds a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in Politics (Political Economy and International Relations) from Princeton University. She grew up in Potomac, MD and lives with her husband in Washington, DC.
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October, 2024
16 October 2024
Why I’m Voting for a Multispecies Future
Christopher Kennedy, San Francisco
The notion of giving voice to more-than-human communities has long been of interest to artists, activists, and change-makers worldwide. Though still emerging, movements like the rights of nature have increasingly advocated for granting natural entities—rivers, forests, ecosystems—legal standing, akin to the rights given to people or corporations. Over the past...
4 October 2024
We Need New Indicators to Understand Whether Greener Neighborhoods Reduce Obesity
Takemi Sugiyama, Melbourne Manoj Chandrabose, Melbourne Nyssa Hadgraft, Melbourne Suzanne Mavoa, Melbourne
Obesity imposes a heavy burden on individuals and societies (Boutari and Mantzoros, 2022). Since obesity is difficult to cure and often coexists with other chronic conditions, public health efforts to prevent obesity are needed (McNally, 2024). However, a strategy focusing on individuals, simply telling people to eat less and exercise...
September, 2024
15 September 2024
On The Psychology of Trees and How to Change It
Tim Beatley, Charlottesville
I have come to believe that in the fight to save trees and forests in our cities, it is necessary to better understand what I am calling the “psychology of trees”, those factors and influences and patterns of thinking that affect the decisions individuals, developers, and even entire communities, make...
4 September 2024
Soft Animal
Andreas Weber, Berlin
Did you know that baby housemartins speak in their sleep? I did not ― until some nights ago in early July. I was walking down the deserted main road outside Varese Ligure, an old-fashioned Italian mountain town. It was the evening of the day I had arrived. Following the dimly...
August, 2024
