“If you elect people who don’t believe in government […] and the system fails – it’s the classic self-fulfilling prophecy.” Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, was among three experts who […]
Earlier this week the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to stay enforcement of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, granting a request by two dozen states and various industry groups to delay all of the rule’s deadlines while litigation proceeds. The decision comes after states including West […]
Top Vatican official: climate change action is a “moral imperative.” Justin Catanoso, director of journalism at Wake Forest University, led an exclusive Mongabay interview with Cardinal Peter Turkson. For 18 months, Turkson led the drafting of Pope Francis’s climate change encyclical, a document said to have helped […]
MA in Sustainability graduate student, Nicole Schiro, shares her experiences from the 2015 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo held in Washington, D.C. As a lifetime learner, I’m always listening. As a future sustainability practitioner, I tend to absorb and gather lenses […]
CEES Faculty, Justin Catanoso, reports on Paris and Climate Change with Fox 8‘s Neill McNeill. Watch the video here.
“As we all prepare for the holidays and special time spent with family and friends, we reflect on some of the many things for which we are thankful. For starters, we are thankful that nature does not discriminate or judge any of us. Whether we […]
Khiry Sutton’s (MA Sustainability ‘15) internship work on energy saving behaviors was published in a journal by the International Facility Management Association, FMJ. As a sustainability research consultant for Carolinas HealthCare System, Khiry Sutton studied the success of a behavior-based energy-efficiency (BBEE) […]
Anticipated speaker Dr. Eban Goodstein of Bard College found himself travel-locked in D.C. on November 10, unable to make his long-awaited appearance at Wake Forest. The upshot? Goodstein still managed to deliver his message to students loud and clear: it’s now or never for […]
Conflict between predators and people have existed as long as we have. Most large predators were eradicated from North America and Europe over the past few hundred years. And even as we have cemented ourselves securely atop the global food web we still sometimes find […]
In Pope Francis’ teaching doctrine on climate change and environmental sustainability, released in June to worldwide attention, he intertwines two threads that often dangle separately: nature and the world’s poor. “A true ecological approach always becomes a social approach,” Francis writes in his papal encyclical. […]
