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 […]
On February 23-24, 2022, the Wake Forest University Intercultural Center and the Program for Leadership and Character will hold the Indigenous Environmental Justice Leadership series. The series consists of three events investigating the problems to which Indigenous environmental justice leadership responds, the forms this […]
The following is a guest post by Hunter Revord, a third year Wake Forest University Law student also enrolled in the M.A. Sustainability program, on behalf of his colleagues in the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law. As the world slowly learns […]
In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for […]
You interact with plastics every day, often without giving them a second thought. But one CEES affiliate, Wake Forest law professor Sarah Morath, thinks about them a lot. Morath studies the use of legislation and litigation to address plastic pollution. She initially became interested […]
There’s an exciting new opportunity on the horizon for Wake Forest students interested in sustainability: under the umbrella of the Sustainability graduate program, faculty member Norman Fraley is piloting an academic research trip to Iceland this May, and he is looking for interested students […]
On November 2nd, the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, in collaboration with the Wake Forest University Office of Sustainability, will host a panel discussion called “Taking the Temperature on Global Warming.” More details about the panel are available at the bottom of this […]
Last week, conservation biologist and PhD candidate Cassie Freund sat down with CEES board member Alan Palmiter, Wake Forest’s William T. Wilson, III, Presidential Chair for Business Law. The two talked about his new article about what is now, in his view, a monumental shift […]
To effectively combat climate change, humanity needs to both stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and to lock away at least some that we’ve already unleashed, a process called carbon sequestration. Reforestation — replanting trees at large scale — is often touted as a […]
If you ask someone, ‘Why should we study history?’ they’ll probably give you an answer about how, by learning from the past, we can avoid making the same mistakes today. And this is true: there is a lot we can glean from past civilizations and […]