At Yale

At Yale

Volume VI

Volume VI

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At Yale

OP-ED:  Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES

OP-ED: Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES

Update: SAGE has published a response to this letter here.

im Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, sat comfortably on-stage. He had come to Burke Auditorium to discuss extended producer responsibility initiatives underway at his company.

During his …

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At Yale, Culture

Evolutionary War Hero: An Interview with Carl Zimmer

Evolutionary War Hero: An Interview with Carl Zimmer

Nearly 40% of Americans don't believe in evolution, and acknowledgment of anthropogenic climate change is equally spotty. Acclaimed author Carl Zimmer spoke with Sage about how science communicators can begin to reach creationists and climate deniers, why Einstein makes for a great magazine cover, and what to do when your work gets slandered on the Daily Show.
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At Yale, Ecosystems, Forests

Systems in Progress:  A Summary of This Year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Annual Conference

Systems in Progress: A Summary of This Year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Annual Conference

Every year the International Society of Tropical Foresters convenes a conference of members, scientists and tropical foresters at Yale University to discuss trends and issues in the management of the world’s tropical forests. This short summarizes the 2012 conference, which

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At Yale, Ecosystems, Forests

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine

Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of all 193 countries in the United Nations.  The UNFF works to bring about the conservation, …