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Interns in Asia Cultivate Dialogue, Address Societal Issues

February 23, 2012 ・ Holly Welles

Left: Cameron White, (left) a member of the class of 2014, talks to a student in Jishou about different ways to recycle. The Princeton undergraduates worked with their students in China to implement several environmentally friendly projects, including celebrating an…

Unleashing Innovation in Environmental Education

May 25, 2011 ・ Holly Welles

Lars Hedin teaching “Advanced Analysis of Environmental Systems.” (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski) Many of the most urgent challenges facing this generation of undergraduate students are closely linked to environmental issues: climate change, the energy system, the food system, and losses of…

S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

Communicating Climate Change

May 19, 2011 ・ Carol Peters

In the course “Communicating Climate Change,” students learn about using multimedia to report on climate change and its potential consequences in a compelling and scientifically rigorous way. The course is co-taught by visiting lecturers Heidi Cullen and Michael Lemonick, shown…

S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

Socolow and Others on Distilling the Human Element in the Climate Challenge

October 30, 2010 ・ Douglas Fischer, Daily Climate

Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with decades of experience studying and teaching about global warming, read the post on psychoanalysts’ exploration of the human response to climate change and responded with a query, as follows: Andy,…

Perspective on: Nature vs. Culture in Environmental Change

October 25, 2010 ・ Carol Peters

Emmanuel Kreike, an associate professor of history and associated faculty member of the Princeton Environmental Institute, specializes in African history and environmental history. His research focuses on the intersection of war, violence and population movements and their impact on the…