I hope, as I move forward (throughout both my personal and professional life), that I continue to speak out from a place of love and passion for this beautiful planet. I hope to come back to the feeling I have in these circles again and again and again by continually putting myself out there. By raising my voice. By being both peaceful and wild. By being mostly rational and yet, and YET, being a firm believer in the impossible, too.
Category: environmental policy
environmental policy
What the Election Means for the Environment – and for Us
To say that we’re tired of hearing about the 2016 election would be an understatement. It’s pretty much impossible to open any newspaper, magazine or blog site without being blasted by fresh Clinton and Trump one-liners fromContinue reading
Let’s Make a (Climate) Deal
It was the kind of Saturday that makes you want to drop everything and run outside. The sun was shining, the leaves were beginning to show their fall colors, and homework wouldn’t be due for atContinue reading
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel, Undergraduate, water
Cape Cod Salt Marshes
I woke up early, just as the sun was beginning to soften the night’s hold on the world. I ate breakfast watching the tree leaves reappear under a sky steadily filling with light. This isContinue reading
Unique Fundraising from the Yellowstone Park Foundation
Many of us must be involved in some aspect of fundraising as part of our job responsibilities, be it grant applications, content generation, or direct contact with individual donors. I’m no different, and as aContinue reading
alumni, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel, water
At Home Realities
I hope that we’ll take what we saw in Rio as a reminder of our own domestic environmental policies and regulatory failures. I hope we’ll continue to work to do better. I hope the kind of activism and determination that culminated in the Clean Water Act will carry into the future, uplifted on a new generation committed to local, regional, and national activism.
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, marine studies, sustainability, travel, water
San Juan Islands
Heading out of San Francisco, my boyfriend and I met my parents in Washington state for a five-day sea kayaking trip in the San Juan Islands. We’d been hoping to meet them up there inContinue reading
Time in the Natural World
Truthfully, a lot of what is going on in the world, and a lot of what I study, is fundamentally violent. But paying attention to the violence we as a species continue to both consciously and unconsciously enact upon our Earth and each other only makes my walks in the woods feel ever more essential. I rely on the spiritual experience that the wilds provide me—the chance to go home—as a source of restoration and a reminder of our boundless power and agency to create change.
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel, water
A New Year
I’m ready to go as far and for as long as we can. My only expectation is to come back different.
Empirics in Tradition
On the cover of the April 8, 1966 edition of Time Magazine was the stark red lettered question, Is God Dead? This question was posed about four years before the first Earth Day. The provocativeContinue reading
