Students Help with Belize Coastal Zone Management
Ron Von Burg leading a discussion with Masters in Sustainability students. Photo Credit: Scott McCullough Like many Wake Forest students who head off to the sunny beaches of [...]
Sustainability Practica: Investigation to Action
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 [...]
PRO+ECT event reveals ocean issues
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 [...]
GMO’s: Fear, Facts, Farms, and Food
By Gloria Muday and Susan Fahrbach, Department of Biology Every day, we decide what to eat. These daily decisions have profound impact on both our own health and the health [...]
UN Climate Change Conference
Photo credit: Justin Catanoso Every year the world comes together to discuss progress on combating climate change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change hosts the COP--the Conference [...]
What’s the problem?
The secret to a great solution is a well-articulated problem. Unfortunately, we seem hardwired to jump into solution development mode prematurely; we imagine all the benefits that a particular outcome [...]
True Value Meals
by Dr. Angela King, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry My family and I live on a 22-acre farm in Stokes County. We are serious gardeners. I can’t remember the [...]
Book Review: “Hope on Earth: A Conversation”
By Richard Schneider, Hope on Earth: A Conversation, by Paul Ehrlich & Michael Charles Tobias, University of Chicago Press, 2014 Eavesdropping has a long and distinguished (or sordid) history not [...]
CEES studying biochar in the Amazon
CEES faculty members Miles Silman and Abdou Lachgar, and CEES fellow and MA in Sustainability graduate student Andrew Wilcox and are on a mission to change tropical agriculture in the [...]
Ocean Acidification: The other climate change problem
By Katie Lotterhos, Assistant Professor of Biology Since the Industrial Revolution, gigatons of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere, which has resulted in the well-known greenhouse effect and [...]