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. During their visit to Wake Forest University this month, the Indigenous leader delegation spent several […]
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 carbon emissions from power plants under the Clear Air Act, has important ramifications for […]
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 on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was released. CEES’s Stan Meiburg […]
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 in global temperatures. While the President told the world that “we’re getting out” of the […]
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 at Wake Forest on April 24 became a microcosm of that battle as the […]
This February graduate students in the Applied Sustainability class visited TS Designs, a Certified Benefit Corporation making t-shirts in Burlington, North Carolina. The students spent the morning with company President, Eric Henry, who aims to create the “highest quality, most sustainable, printed apparel,” measuring […]
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 to translate classroom knowledge to practice. Now, in the second semester of the […]
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 scientist Nancy Knowlton even pledged to keep audience members “not utterly depressed,” to noticeable […]
