Every year around Independence Day, I like to disconnect from the grid and get out into the backcountry. Over the last decade, more often than not, I’ve spent this time backpacking among the mountain laurelContinue reading
Category: sustainability
sustainability
Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, marine studies, sustainability, travel, water
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
Star Light, Star Bright
With the invention of artificial light, we could overcome the darkness of night, but has it overcome our connection to the stars?
Tripp Burwell
climate, conservation, environmental economics, ESC, forests, students, sustainability, travel, water
climate, conservation, environmental economics, ESC, forests, students, sustainability, travel, water
Clyde Minaret
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.
Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel, water
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.
Janet Larsen
climate, conservation, Duke Environmental Leadership Program, students, sustainability, travel, water
climate, conservation, Duke Environmental Leadership Program, students, sustainability, travel, water
Learning from California’s Drought: Managing Groundwater
California’s on-going drought requires careful consideration on how best to store water. Rather than dams, look underground.
New Beginnings
These are incredible times to be an environmentalist. Of course it’s hard—we’re up against some of the greatest challenges this Earth has ever faced—and the majority of these trials and predicaments human-created. Still, when someone says, “It’s really hard right now”, I can’t help but think that, well, of course it is. That’s why we’re here, right now. We’ve been given us this time and this space and these battles because we are the people for whom they belong.
Scott Delgado
2016 Trip, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, energy, marine studies, oceans, students, sustainability, travel
2016 Trip, CEM, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, energy, marine studies, oceans, students, sustainability, travel
Day Ten – The riches of deep seawater
On day 10, we experienced the Hawaii Ocean Science and Technology Park which is administered by National Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority (NELHA). The park is a collection of 42 groups, which range from research andContinue reading
Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, marine studies, sustainability, travel, water
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, marine studies, sustainability, travel, water
Lessons from the Road
Be it the vision of the Amazon, or a view from the shore of a different sea…soil of a different texture or a tree with bark made of colors we have never before witnessed…a language we don’t know or a new alignment of the stars…may we be thankful for the time to reflect, and the chance to stand in wonder of life, to bask in the newness…thankful for the reminder that we are alive.