There is a feeling of awe this place gives anyone lucky enough to find themselves on its shores…when did that begin to mean nothing to this world?
Category: students
The Life in our Trees
The desire to eat meat is really the major reason for loss of tree cover in this part of the world.
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, students, sustainability, water
Agriculture’s Contribution to Climate Change

While I wholeheartedly embrace new standards on power plants and the transportation sector, I am dismayed at the way in which we seem to be ignoring other major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Ask Questions–Always
There is something fantastically energizing about conducting research—liberating even.
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students
Riveted by the Rainy Season

“I am sensing a storm is coming, it’s calling me out to play” – Yuna The rainy season in Mastatal, Costa Rica is wet. Of course it is wet. But it is not justContinue reading
A Year in the Tropics

Costa Rica has been a dream of mine for a very long time…I am not sure at what point it became this way. I think that sometimes certain places capture your imagination in a wayContinue reading
Tell Your Children to Be Farmers

There was an Op-Ed in the New York Times written a year ago by Bren Smith titled, “Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers”. I found it sitting neatly folded on my bedroomContinue reading
Barefoot Change

There is something to be said for living in such a way that you could let go of everything. It is the sense of possession, and more than that, the sense of need, that keep us from feeling happy.
climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, undergraduate, water
There is a Salty Cure for Everything
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”
conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, sustainability, travel, undergraduate, water
Lessons from Hispaniola

A green castle amidst a desolate landscape, a flapping Haitian flag waving us quietly goodbye. My last image of Haiti is filled with a strange sadness.