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Nov 3, 2017

Room to grow: Princeton’s Vertical Farming Project

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Princeton University’s Vertical Farming Project was established as a model vertical farm — which involves growing food crops indoors on stacked shelves — to generate accessible and up-to-date research for the field.  Video by Nick Donnoli, Office of Communications.

Oct 3, 2017

PEI Faculty Seminar: Making smart windows smarter

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Lynn Loo, the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering and Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, will discuss emerging smart-window technology that will save energy and make buildings more…

Mar 7, 2017

PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Environmental Martyrdom and Defenders of the Forest

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Spring 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 3/7/2017 Robert Nixon, Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment. Professor of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute. Martyrdom is direct action in extremis. Martyrs put…

Dec 2, 2016

Wild science: Photos from the Mpala Research Centre

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For Princeton University faculty and students, the Mpala Research Centre, a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional field laboratory that sits on a 50,000-acre reserve and ranch in central Kenya, provides an expansive natural terrain ideal for large-scale field experiments in ecology,…

Oct 11, 2016

PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Competition, Hydraulic Damage, and the Universal Rules Regulating Plant Water Use

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Tiny valves on the surfaces of leaves, called stomates, regulate carbon gain and water loss by plants, and are thus linchpins of the global carbon and water cycles. Amazingly, the same simple model regulates stomates worldwide. This model is…

May 3, 2012

Eco-Republic

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Melissa Lane is Professor of Politics at Princeton University, following fifteen years of teaching political thought in the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge. She is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership; Director…

Nov 14, 2011

What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World

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McKay Jenkins *96, Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English and Director of Journalism, University of Delaware, will discuss his bestselling new book on the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies and environment: What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy…

May 27, 2011

Unleashing Innovation: Tackling Environmental Challenges

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Spirit of Service ’76 and the Princeton Environmental Institute examine inventive solutions to environmental problems. Panelists are Terry Cooke ’76, Founder, China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, a public-private collaboration in clean energy; Jim Hornthal ’76, Venture Partner, CMEA Capital,…