Kendra Pierre-Louis is an American climate reporter and

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. She most recently worked at

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as a reporter and producer on the

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''How to Save a Planet'', featuring

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and

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Career

Pierre-Louis previously worked at ''

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'' and ''

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''. Her work has also appeared in ''

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'', ''Sierra'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. She also worked as a researcher for Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm. Her 2012 book, ''Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet,'' argues that individual action and

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do not support

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. It was reviewed positively by ''Climate and Capitalism'' reviewer Ian Angus. ''

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'' called the book "a slim but revealing investigation." Pierre-Louis was a featured author in the book ''

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,'' contributing an essay examining what the fictional country of

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can teach about

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Personal life

Pierre-Louis is a first-generation American born to

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an parents and was raised speaking

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and

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. She has a

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in Science Writing from the

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, a Master of Art in Sustainable Development from the

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, and a Bachelor of Art in

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from

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. During her graduate studies, she received a Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowship for science writing. She has repeatedly criticized

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, going so far as to publish an essay in ''Popular Science'' in 2017, calling the

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"disgusting".

Awards and recognition

Pierre-Louis received a Sagebrush Country Institute Fellowship in 2015, and a Bringing Home the World Fellowship from the

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in 2016. In 2017, Pierre-Louis was selected by the

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for national environmental journalist training. In 2020, Pierre-Louis was named Science Writer in Residence by the

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. In 2019 ''Bustle'' named her one of its "25 Climate Scientists and Experts to Follow on

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" for climate information. She also delivered the keynote speech at the 2019 Oppenheimer Media Ethics Symposium at the

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References

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