Christine Todd Whitman spoke to a packed auditorium at the Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center on September 19th. She stressed civic engagement as a key component to moving meaningful policy forward. CEES sponsored the event along with the School of Law and the […]
CEES Board Member Emily Wakild publishes a new book this fall that takes a closer look at the creation of Mexico’s national park system. The system’s history provides a unique opportunity to study how government and social forces can contribute to the idea of modern-day […]
Lyons Gray served as Chief Financial Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, under President George W. Bush, where he managed a budget in excess of $7 billion from 2005-2009. Gray is a Winston-Salem businessman who spent more than a decade working for the […]
If you didn’t get a chance to join CEES for our webinar with Lyons Gray, you can watch it online here. The webinar starts at 8:06 in the clip. The event was held as a preview to Former EPA Administrator […]
Whitman is the President of The Whitman Strategy Group (WSG), a consulting firm that specializes in energy and environmental issues. WSG offers a comprehensive set of solutions to problems facing businesses, organizations, and governments; they have been at the forefront of helping leading […]
Acre+Care is a revolutionary system that uses direct investment to protect the Amazon Rain Forest through e-commerce. Think Google Earth meets Kiva. Through Acre+Care, donors can help protect an acre of concession land in Peru. It was developed at Wake Forest in collaboration with […]
A project supervised by CEES Board Member Dr. Abdou Lachgar just won a $145,665 grant from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina. The grant will help Wake’s Terrafinity project develop a method that facilitates the conversion of waste into biodiesel fuel. This project and the […]
By Office of Communications and External Relations A new polymer-based solar-thermal device is the first to generate power from both heat and visible sunlight – an advance that could shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent. Geothermal add-ons for […]
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I participated in a sustainability symposium that was international in flavor a few weeks ago, and one of the things that became clear was that there are myriad cultural variations on what it means to be sustainable. The questions spiraled around the room: What does sustainability mean […]
