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 […]
Month: May 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 […]
New Haven Mayor Candidates Respond to Social Justice Questions at Public Debate
Six would-be mayors speak on wages, affordable housing, and other social concerns. But did environmental justice get short shrift?
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Summer Blog ’13
Every summer a small army of researchers and interns from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies filters out into the world. This year Sage Magazine asked a bunch of them to tell us about their progress, giving us all opportunities for insight into the places and people they were getting to know. Keep checking in to watch the adventures unfold.
Cross of Gold: A Mining Company Arrives, and Guatemalans Fight Back
Adedana Ashebir sits down with filmmakers JT Haines and Andrew Sherburne during the world premiere of their documentary “Gold Fever.”