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Articles and Prose
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Speaking but not listening – early failures of South Africa’s Indaba approach?
– This editorial is re-posted from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies official COP 17 blog, found here. It was originally titled, “Speaking…
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The Challenge of Maintaining Ecosystem Services
n 1997, New York City decided to allocate $1.5 billion to preserve and restore the Catskill/Delaware Watershed, an ecosystem over 100 miles outside of the…
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Occupy COP17 & the Women’s Rural Assembly
Protestors have gathered outside the fenced perimeter of the massive COP17 conference center to encourage world leaders to keep the Kyoto Protocol alive and, in…
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South Africa and the Climate Conference accelerator
The Yale student delegation is staying in a hotel as far away from Durban, and the COP17 conference center, as physically possible. A muddy trek…
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Do you know your COP IQ?
– The following has been re-posted from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies official student delegation blog, found here – he COP17 events…
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COP17: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Climate Change
What can we expect from this year’s climate conference? With well more then 15,000 delegates likely to be in attendance (COP15 had more then 24,000!)…
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COP17: On the Ground for the Latest Round of Climate Talks
It’s that time of the year again. Leaves are changing. Warm jackets are emerging from attic closets. Forgotten winter boots reappear in mudrooms. And diplomats,…
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Audacious Hope: An Interview with Environmental Activist Sharon Smith
Author, activist, and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies student Sharon Smith knows a thing or two about organizing.
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Activist and Social Entrepreneur Jeff Gang on Green Organizing and Green Buying
If an environmental advocate has sent you an email, called your phone, or knocked on your door in the last two years, there’s a pretty…
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Night Swimming in the Amazon
“The Peruvian Amazon never fails to impose quandaries.” Conservation scientist Sarah Federman describes one night’s mishap near a far-flung research station in the isolated Peruvian…
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Fishing for the Future of Fish
Angela Orthmeyer reports on fishers across America who are voluntarily changing the way they fish so that their kids will someday be able to fish…
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The Anti-Sushi (of Miya’s Sushi)
The concept of “sustainable seafood” has become an oxymoron, but not at Miya’s Sushi, where chef Bun Lai is tossing out old standards in favor…
