School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Summer Blog ’13 School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Summer Blog ’13
Cross of Gold: A Mining Company Arrives, and Guatemalans Fight Back Diodora is among the activists fighting to prevent Goldcorp from despoiling their lands.
A Very Human Struggle: The Making of a Different Kind of Documentary Eriel Daranger, one of ELEMENTAL's three very human subjects, during the Tar Sands Healing Walk.
Kiln Ground: Industry and Injury in Nepal Kiln Ground: Industry and Injury in Nepal
Multimedia Greening The Hill

Greening The Hill

What are high school students and ex-convicts doing in the same volunteer program? Restoring a neighborhood, one swing of the sledgehammer at a time.

Wildlife Jennie Miller interviews a forest guard after a leopard attack in Kahna.

Reading the bones: In the field with a depredation detective

Big cats kill a lot of livestock in India’s Kahna Reserve, provoking local herders to retaliate. Jennie Miller is using forensics, ecology, and satellite mapping to reduce the escalating tension between large predators and people.

Actions New Haven Mayor Candidates Respond to Social Justice Questions at Public Debate

New Haven Mayor Candidates Respond to Social Justice Questions at Public Debate

ast Tuesday night, just before 6 PM, a line stretched out of the downtown Gateway Community College campus onto the Church Street sidewalk. Over 250 people were waiting to file into the college cafeteria for the New Haven Mayor Social Justice Debate, where six out of seven mayoral candidates seeking to win the September 10 Democratic primary election were sharing more »

Culture Review: Musicwood

Review: Musicwood

Naomi Heindel reviews the opening night of the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.

This is Happening

Tess Croner in Rwanda
Summer Blog 2013

Tess Croner in Rwanda

Hi FES! I’m writing after my first week in Rwanda, where I’ll be spending the summer—first as part of a study tour led by Amy Vedder (with Yufang Gao and Lily Sweikert), visiting conservation and development projects throughout the country, and then for a two month internship with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Nyungwe National Park. We started the week more »

Ben Friedman in the City
Summer Blog 2013

Ben Friedman in the City

Wednesday At Tempelhof ere I am at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, one week after turning in my final Environmental Campaigns paper in New Haven. I biked here from my brother’s flat in the Kreuzberg area of a city I am quickly becoming extremely fond of. I cycled onto the tarmac from the road surrounding the airport, past the main more »

New Haven Mayor Candidates Respond to Social Justice Questions at Public Debate
Politics

New Haven Mayor Candidates Respond to Social Justice Questions at Public Debate

ast Tuesday night, just before 6 PM, a line stretched out of the downtown Gateway Community College campus onto the Church Street sidewalk. Over 250 people were waiting to file into the college cafeteria for the New Haven Mayor Social Justice Debate, where six out of seven mayoral candidates seeking to win the September 10 Democratic primary election were sharing more »

A River Changes Course: An Interview with EFFY Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam
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A River Changes Course: An Interview with EFFY Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam

Kalyanee Mam, creator of the documentary “A River Changes Course,” sits down with Sage to discuss the global forces that are disrupting life in Cambodia.

Review: Musicwood
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Review: Musicwood

Naomi Heindel reviews the opening night of the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.

Announcing Sage’s Second Annual Young Environmental Writers Contest
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Announcing Sage’s Second Annual Young Environmental Writers Contest

Hear ye, hear ye: send us your best environmental writing by April 19. Glory and riches may be yours!

The Greatest Migration: As Rainfall Changes, Humans Pack Their Bags
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The Greatest Migration: As Rainfall Changes, Humans Pack Their Bags

When droughts and floods force subsistence farmers to migrate, what happens to the families who stay behind? An interview with Koko Warner, a United Nations researcher on the frontlines of climate change adaptation.

Grizzly Woman: Louisa Willcox Battles for Bears
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Grizzly Woman: Louisa Willcox Battles for Bears

The NRDC’s Senior Wildlife Advocate sits down with Sage to chat about the simple bear necessities of life.

A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing
Culture

A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

How does Yale’s Peabody Museum prepare its specimens for presentation? Sage Magazine goes behind the scenes in the Peabody’s collection.

Part of the Navy's decommissioned fleet sits in Suisun Bay.
Oceans

A Ship Unsunk

A change in US policy on the disposal of retired Navy vessels signals a movement in the right direction. But we’ve still got miles to go.