Environmental Education

In our polarized world, it is easy for conversations to get stuck. How can we find new pathways forward on the big issues of our time, whether at the holiday dinner table, in our organizations, or on the wider political stage? Fellow Jason Jay from MIT Sloan explores what happens inside ourselves when conversations go off the rails in this TEDxBocaRaton presentation.

Hundreds of journalists from across the country took part in day-long tours Thursday, Oct. 10, as part of the 29th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists hosted by Colorado State University. The tours included experts from CSU and ran the gamut, exploring the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, National Renewable Energy Lab, Rocky Mountain National Park, farms and a dairy operation, and the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods in north Denver for a discussion on environmental justice.

“My favorite thing to say is that you can't protect anything until you love it,” says Fellow Jen-Osha Buysse, co-founder and director of West Virginia's Mountain Stewardship & Outdoor Leadership program. “Mountain SOL is all about learning from a place of fun and adventure, and connecting new experiences and learning with coming from a place of passion.”

Fellow Nicole Ardoin has been named director of Stanford's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) and is also the inaugural Emmett Family Faculty Scholar. From Chris Field, director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, where she holds a join appointment with the Stanford Graduate School of Education: