Alison F. Takemura is staff writer at Canary Media. She untangles thorny concepts in the clean energy revolution to make it something everyone can understand and embrace. Alison is Japanese-Mexican-American, hails from Los Angeles, and has a fervent fascination with forests. Her stories have been published in National Geographic, Sierra, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and more. An MIT beaver and University of California, Santa Cruz slug — she earned a PhD in microbiology and a certificate in science writing from those institutions, respectively — she’s now nestled in the foothills of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado.