This month the Wake Forest undergraduate Environment and Sustainability Studies Program reached an important milestone in welcoming new Program Director Dr. Julie Velásquez Runk. She comes to Wake Forest from the University of Georgia, where she was an Associate Professor of Anthropology. Velásquez Runk takes […]
Last week, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced an agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act. Despite its unassuming title, the bill includes substantial and much-needed action to address climate change. In fact, according to the Democratic Party’s
In a landmark 161-0 vote on July 28, 2022, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recognized the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. The United States voted in favor of the resolution; eight countries abstained from the vote. “This is a […]
You might not think of libraries as bastions of sustainability. But Wake Forest’s beloved Z. Smith Reynolds library is a unique, constantly evolving entity, and this quality extends to its sustainable practices. From providing information literacy courses for undergraduates, to hosting low-waste events, to refurbishing […]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in West Virgina vs. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The case, a face-off over how much power the EPA has to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under the Clear Air Act, has important ramifications for […]
Montana is a beautiful state – the landscape, a haven for biodiversity, is a mosaic of wide-open prairies and valleys set against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in the west. But those open spaces aren’t empty land. The state is dotted with over […]
In 2014, the inaugural cohort of students in the Wake Forest University Master of Arts in Sustainability (MAS) program sat for their first class. Now, just eight years later, the program’s 100th student is enrolled and slated to graduate this fall. MAS, which was originally […]
Some people think of the sciences and the humanities as mutually exclusive categories: Wake Forest English professor Meredith Farmer is not one of them. Farmer specializes in 19th-century American literature, a field that allows her to chase her interest in the overlap between science and […]
Scholarship and cross-cutting collaboration are the Wake Forest way. In support of these activities, the Center for Energy, Environment & Sustainability (CEES) has been awarding small grants to groups of faculty and student groups working on sustainability-related projects since 2010. We have funded pilot research […]
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases at the same time the IPCC Sixth Assessment Working Group II Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was released. CEES’s Stan Meiburg […]