Kale Roberts, Contributor and Former Editor

Kale Roberts is a former renewable energy beat editor for MOTHER EARTH NEWS and contributing writer. He supports cities across the U.S. to develop climate action and resilience plans with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, where he also supports as a local government liaison to the United Nations. His other roles include managing partnerships and communications with the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and teaching with the climate science and policy program at the Bard College Center for Environmental Policy.

Kale’s previous roles have been as Climate Change Adaptation Support with the United Nations Development Programme in the Asia-Pacific region, a Program Coordinator for the Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program in Northern California, and building home-scale biogas digesters as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Kingdom of Thailand (2010-2012). He was a Rachel Carson Scholar at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy from 2014 – 2016 (M.S., Climate Science & Policy) and earned a B.S. in Environmental Science among the California redwoods at Humboldt State University. Kale is based in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Read Kale’s MOTHER EARTH NEWS articles:

• First Nations Botanical Garden (Spring 2021)
• Falconry for Agricultural Pest Abatement (October/November 2020)
• Bloomington Community Orchard Brings Abundance to the Commons (Mother Earth Gardener, Fall 2020)
• Oldest Victory Garden in the U.S. Thrives (Mother Earth Gardener, Summer 2020)
• A Mollusk Proposal: Home-scale Escargot (Dec 2019/Jan 2020 issue)
• Local Energy Resilience with Community Microgrids (June/July 2019 issue)
• Green Goats Organic Mowing Service (February/March 2019 issue)
• Custom Furniture Company Builds with Salvaged Wood (June/July 2017 issue)
  
• The Carbon Market’s Role in Combating Climate Change (June/July 2016 issue)
• An Impressive Passive Solar Home Design (June/July 2016 issue)
• Renewable Energy is Not Always ‘Green’: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Reservoirs
• Cost of Renewable Energy Now Competitive with Cost of Fossil Fuels (April/May 2015 issue)
• Drought and Climate Change: New Report Predicts What’s Ahead (June/July 2015 issue)
• Compare Solar Prices on ‘EnergySage’
• Distributed Energy: Powering the Electricity Grid Together
• Grow Warm-Weather Plants Year-Round with a Chinese Greenhouse
• Farm Labor Exposé Earns 2013 James Beard Award
• 65 Tips to Save Money Through Self-Reliance (February/March 2014 issue)
• Green Sports Alliance Brings Sustainability to the Sports Industry
• New Wave-Energy Project in Oregon
• Find a Community-Supported Fishery
• Illegal Front-Yard Vegetable Gardens: Des Moines Considers Home Garden Ban
• Energy-Efficient LED Lighting Hits the Streets: 95 Percent of Cities Satisfied
• How to Check for Seed Viability (with Video)