CEES announces funding opportunities for research, scholarship, and working groups related to energy, environment and sustainability as broadly defined. The grants seek to provide new opportunities for research and scholarly activities at Wake Forest. Though the center has formed with core groups in Renewable Energy […]
The climate change debate has hit center stage with some recent opinion pieces in both the New York Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal. In this recent Ted Talks feature, James Hansen, a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, […]
Wake Forest University just adopted a new “building dashboard” that allows anyone on campus to track and monitor energy use. With the technology, anyone can look at a building’s energy consumption by monitoring its electricity, water, heating, and cooling systems. It is […]
The issue of climate change has hit center stage in some recent opinion pieces. Here’s a link to two of the stories that sparked our interest: New York Review of Books: Why the Global Warming Skeptics are Wrong – William D. […]
Dr. Stuart Hart believes that now is the time to capitalize on sustainability. “I think people increasingly feel in their gut that something fundamental is going on and we’re in the midst of one of those periods of time when everything changes,” said Dr. Hart […]
“There is this growing wariness about international trade,” Author Pietra Rivoli explained to an assembled group Thursday at the Kulynych Auditorium. Rivoli sees the current Occupy protests as an expression of this wariness, which can be traced back to the anti-globalization protests that started […]
In business, core values are at the heart of sustainability. For Walter Robb, the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Whole Foods, those values are what drive every decision he makes. “There’s no reason a business can’t strive for the highest good in […]
One of the strengths of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability is the way it combines several academic disciplines into one goal — promoting critical thinking and effective action around the sustainability movement. Professor of Law Alan Palmiter brings a unique […]
Wake Forest University’s Director of Sustainability, Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, and former intern Tracey Watson (’10) are featured in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. The article profiles Watson’s sustainability job with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Watson credits her internship with Wake’s Office of Sustainability […]
Even with a struggling economy, high unemployment and thousands protesting American greed, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is optimistic. “I’m very optimistic that we have good choices,” he said to the crowd at Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University Thursday night. Kennedy cheered […]
