In this podcast WWF’s Dekila Chungyalpa, discusses the organization’s Sacred Earth program, which engages religious leaders and faith communities as stakeholders in the organization’s work. Religious leaders, Chungyalpa says, have long been the missing piece of conservation. Scientists often want to distance themselves from religion, or from addressing the moral and ethical questions inherent in many of our most critical environmental dilemmas.
Climate change does not exist for people in terms of the evidence, however strong it is; it exists in the socially constructed narratives that we have around it. And these narratives become the life and essence of the issue rather than the true and major threat it represents. In this podcast George Marshall, founder of the Climate Outreach Information Network, discusses how we might break the silence that commonly defines the climate change narrative by being open about our convictions and beliefs.
Tom Kizzia’s recent book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness, details the strange (but true) journey of the self-proclaimed Papa Pilgrim, who established his wife and fifteen children in America’s largest national park in south-central Alaska. In this podcast, Kizzia visits with Amy Mount, Yale F&ES ‘14, about how the Pilgrims touched off one of the most-visible controversies between environmentalists, government officials and local land-rights advocates in a generation.
Julian Aguon is a Pacific human rights lawyer and law scholar whose work centers on the rights of non-self-governing and indigenous peoples in international law. Having for years lived and worked in Guam and the surrounding islands of Micronesia, Julian commands intimate knowledge of the peoples, governments and legal systems of these small island states and thrives on working across legal, political and cultural landscapes.
By: Russell Patterson, YCELP Fellow
On February 24 and 25, hundreds of students, professors, and practitioners from across Yale University and the world gathered at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) for the 2017 New Directions in Environmental Law Conference. Jointly hosted by FES and the Yale Law School, the conference is an annual student-run event that explores legal and policy dimensions across specific themes.
By Lucy Kessler, YCELP Communications RA.
Although President-elect Trump has made his opinions widely known, his plans for acting on those statements remain unclear and undefined—leaving a void filled with speculation and conjecture.
By Steve Arowolo, Founder and CEO, Green Shift Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
By Michael Meehan
Within the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), there is a small team of employees who believe that regional food systems make up not only the subject of work but also a theory of change – that issues of national and global importance may be effectively approached by leveraging state and local politics.
This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post on December 10, 2015.
By Alessandra Wingerter, Joint J.D./M.E.M. (2017) at Vermont Law School and Yale F&ES
