Poetry
Articles and Prose
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Streaks, Leaps, Maelstroms, and Murmurations
A group of starlings is called a murmuration. A group of tigers is called a streak (or an ambush). Why?
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Keystone XL: Beholden to the Highest Bidder
The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has illustrated the need for a comprehensive U.S. energy policy. Joseph Edgar and Brian Marrs explain how we…
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In its final hours, COP17 gets Occupied
Perhaps it was the spotty Internet service, two weeks subsisting on pre-sealed sandwiches, or just maybe the fact that on the heels of the latest…
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Photos from the final day – is agreement coming?
It’s Friday, December 9th – the last day, ostensibly, of the COP17. Is a new legally-binding instrument between all major emitters to reduce greenhouse gas…
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Bridging the Emissions Gap – The Clock Is Ticking!
new and timely synthesis report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was formally launched at COP17 today, giving those concerned with our world’s future…
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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,…
