Dayna Carney

" Rick was traveling a lot during the making of this book. He had no printer available and had difficulty making decisions on his small computer screen. We printed out all of his page layouts to size and sent them to wherever he was on the globe. Sometimes I would review the choices with him on a Zoom call, or sometimes he'd make a firm decision

First and foremost, address data gaps, says Maharaj. "We don't have data on future sea-level rise and wave climate projections for most islands. Think about that. We're so exposed and vulnerable on our coastlines." Islands also need more information on the value of ecosystems services to tackling climate change, she says, and studies to model their

Patience is chic.

I was entering adulthood and trying to live my childhood dream, but now, to be “authentic,” I had to be the product I had long been posting online, as opposed to the person I was growing up to be.

Online culture encourages young people to turn themselves into a product at an age when they’re only starting to discover who they are.   When an audience becomes emotionally invested in a version of you that you outgrow, keeping the product you’ve made aligned with yourself becomes an impossible   dilemma.