Art of Environmental Justice in an Expanded Field: A Symposium on Creative Activism and Eco-Politics across Boundaries
LENGTH ・ 02:29:00This one-day event brings together leading international contemporary artists who engage problems of environmental justice in expansive ways. The purpose: to highlight the critical power of visual art to reimagine the politics of ecology across various boundaries—not just national…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Environmental Martyrdom and Defenders of the Forest
LENGTH ・ 00:57:18Spring 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…
Wild science: Photos from the Mpala Research Centre
LENGTH ・ 00:02:25For 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,…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Competition, Hydraulic Damage, and the Universal Rules Regulating Plant Water Use
LENGTH ・ 01:06:19Tiny 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…
Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits and Obstacles
LENGTH ・ 00:6001Claire Kremen (born 1961) is an American biologist, and professor of conservation biology at University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology in 1982, and from Duke University with a PhD in Zoology in 1987.[2] She studies the impacts of deforestation in Madagascar,…
