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Feb 13, 2013

The Two Cultures in Environmental Studies

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Just over 50 years ago, C. P. Snow delivered a now famous lecture at Cambridge University. His subject was “The Two Cultures,” the sciences and the humanities. Straddling the two (he was both a chemist and a prolific novelist),…

Dec 5, 2011

The Art of Sustainability!

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How can artists help create the sustainable cities and places of our dreams? Three artists will talk about their own work, and will engage in a freewheeling discussion on art’s particular powers to enact changes in environmental policies and…

Dec 10, 2010

The Dangers of Drilling Deep

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James Glanz has been a member of the Investigations Desk at The New York Times since January 2009, when he stepped down as the Times’s Baghdad Bureau Chief after nearly five years in Iraq. Among many other topics, he covered…

Nov 16, 2009

Putting Ecosystem Services on the Map

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Taylor Ricketts is the Director of WWF’s Conservation Science Program, and he served as a Convening Lead Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment – the 5-year, UN-sponsored effort to assess the world’s ecosystems and their contribution to human well-being. Taylor…