Young leaders from six Indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon will head back home with a new vision and resources to tackle pressing environmental and social issues in their communities. [...]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in West Virgina vs. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The case, a face-off over how much power the EPA has to regulate [...]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases at the same time the IPCC Sixth Assessment Working Group II Report [...]
CEES Board Member and Mongabay environmental reporter, Justin Catanoso, provides a breakdown of the 25th annual United Nations climate summit (COP25) in Madrid.
Never have the stakes been higher, nor perhaps planetary politics or nature more unsettled, as participants gather for the annual United Nations Climate Summit. Indicative of a global sense of urgency, the European parliament just last week declared a “climate and environmental emergency,” urging EU countries to commit to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
On June 1, President Trump announced that the U.S. will be withdrawing from the Paris Agreement— a historic, global accord aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting the rise [...]
On talk shows and political fronts across the United States, the battle to be right about climate change — and possibly save Earth — is playing out. The panel discussion [...]
Photo by Scott McCullough, MA’15 This February graduate students in the Applied Sustainability class visited TS Designs, a Certified Benefit Corporation making t-shirts in Burlington, North Carolina. The [...]
In November, MA Sustainability students investigated and articulated sustainability-related organizational challenges during an in-class session with Winston-Salem based clients. This living learning laboratory experience was one step in preparing students [...]
For a conservation event with potentially apocalyptic connotations, Thursday’s PRO+ECT (Pledging Responsibility for Oceans and Environmental Change Today) event in Brendle Recital Hall was frank, optimistic and self-aware: panelist and [...]
