Students are driving an increased focus on sustainability at Wake Forest University’s Charlotte campus “It’s a hot topic so they want to know what is sustainability and what is this going to mean for me and my future in the workplace,” said Dan Fogel, Associate […]
Michelle Klosterman, CEES Board Member and Assistant Professor of Science Education, and her students have partnered with a rural school in Yadkin County, North Carolina to help bring more science into the classroom. Read more in this article featured on Wake Forest’s home page. […]
Effective communication may be the key to improving the health of the coastal barrier islands, one of the most treasured ecosystems in the world. “Getting this kind of information to the public is difficult,” said Biology Babcock Professor and CEES Associate Director […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dennis Lemly believes in the power of information, even if at times, he wished it was a little more powerful. “They may choose to use it. They may choose not to use it. I don’t want any decision to be made without that information on […]
