By Wake Forest University Communications & External Relations (WINSTON-SALEM, NC, April 25, 2016) – Wake Forest University has received nearly $10 million in support to establish the Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica. The new center, established through the University’s Center for Energy, Environment, and […]
Nespresso, a premium luxury brand coffee who presented a challenge to over 90 universities worldwide, gave Wake Forest students the opportunity to participate and present our findings. The challenge for 2016 was: “As a part of its ambition to be the highest quality and […]
By Lauren Newton MA in Sustainability Candidate Last week, the North Carolina Power Dialog allowed students to participate in civil discourse through a different lens: their own. The US has made a climate commitment of 30% cuts in global warming pollution by 2030. Unfortunately, […]
Dr. Dan Fogel, Sustainability Graduate Programs Director, recently published a book titled, Strategic Sustainability: A Natural Environmental Lens on Organizations and Management. The book, which attempts to marry sustainability and organization theory and practice, outlines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of […]
On May 7th, the inaugural class of Wake Forest Masters in Sustainability (MASus) graduate students and the program faculty celebrated their time together, and the tremendous amount of work it took to reach graduation, with an end-of-year reception. Two students were acknowledged as having particularly […]
The Lighthouse Reef Atoll off the coast of Belize, one of the most pristine marine environments in the Caribbean Sea, has become an educational destination during spring break for Wake Forest students and faculty studying climate change and sustainability. During Spring Break, two groups from […]
Like many Wake Forest students who head off to the sunny beaches of the Caribbean for spring break, students in the Masters in Sustainability Coasts and Climate Change course spent their spring break in the jungles and coasts of Belize. However, […]
This February graduate students in the Applied Sustainability class visited TS Designs, a Certified Benefit Corporation making t-shirts in Burlington, North Carolina. The students spent the morning with company President, Eric Henry, who aims to create the “highest quality, most sustainable, printed apparel,” measuring […]
Every year the world comes together to discuss progress on combating climate change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change hosts the COP–the Conference of Parties–where the world’s 192 countries negotiate how to address climate change. This year’s COP is in Lima, Peru, where the […]
The secret to a great solution is a well-articulated problem. Unfortunately, we seem hardwired to jump into solution development mode prematurely; we imagine all the benefits that a particular outcome might bring and often don’t make time to question assumptions about root causes. Students […]
