Preserving Subsistence was originally published on May 6, 2012 in These Fifty States, a Yale College publication devoted to capturing different aspects of place across America. Find them at thesefiftystates.org. Ricky Ashby is not an easy man to track down. He has no phone, no office door, no email address. He lives alone in a cabin on the Noatak River in […]
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OP-ED: Paths to Sustainability–A Response to Dylan Walsh’s Open Letter to FES
This is a response to a recent op-ed by Dylan Walsh. To read Walsh’s op-ed click here. hat kinds of people does the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies hope to send out into the world? This is the question that, although he didn’t ask it, seemed to underlie Dylan Walsh’s provocative and poignant op-ed. The scene, so familiar […]
OP-ED: European Union Must Strengthen Laws for Shipwreck Cleanup
Adele Faure and Anthony Moffa are J.D. candidates at Yale Law School, and Sandy Aylesworth and Ben Goldfarb are Master’s candidates at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. As part of Yale’s Environmental Protection Clinic, the students are partnering with Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation to compel the removal of the Sea Diamond wreck. This month they will […]
OP-ED: Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES
Update: SAGE has published a response to this letter here. im Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, sat comfortably on-stage. He had come to Burke Auditorium to discuss extended producer responsibility initiatives underway at his company. During his talk Mr. Jeffery mentioned that Nestlé Waters is pushing for a national recycling rate for PET bottles of 60 percent by […]
Could Doing Chores Save the World?
While laboring at a remote commune in the wilds of New Mexico, Emily Schosid learned what real sustainability means. And it’s not at all what you’d expect.
Change Gamers
Video games are maturing. Where players once practiced delivering newspapers or dispatching demons, they are now increasingly being asked to tackle real-world problems like climate change and war. Follow author Dylan Walsh as he surveys the scene and logs on to try to save the globe.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine
Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of all 193 countries in the United Nations. The UNFF works to bring about the conservation, management and sustainable development of all types of forests. This includes a focus on the entire landscape—on people, soils, water, […]
Sage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as Temperatures Rise?
he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty by mid-century. As global climate warms, so does ocean temperature, forcing species habitats pole-ward. Marine protected areas (MPAs) don’t tail along. Though the United States manages a network of more than 1,600 MPAs, climate change, […]
Op-ed: Local Climate Solutions as Christian Calling
think you have to love something before you’ll fight for it. At least that’s been my experience growing up in Minnesota. My friends and I built snow castles in the winter, chased rabbits in the spring and marveled at the sun-kissed summer leaves, years before we learned the biochemistry of photosynthesis. I yearned for the lakes, woods and prairies before […]
From Scrap Heap to Wind Turbine
In 2009, Harrison Leaf was one of many university graduates facing a tough job market. Instead of working as a bartender, he decided to found a renewable energy company in Kenya.
The Limits of Civil Disobedience: An Interview with Director Marshall Curry
Documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry has said that he likes to “present people’s best arguments and let those smack into each other.” His third and most recent project does this exceedingly well – many good arguments, much tough smacking.
Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg
The author of the acclaimed book, “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food,” on fishing, writing, and healing the world’s oceans.