Pair Pioneers Ecology & Religion Program by Liliana Varman
After spending four days by himself in the Mojave desert without access to food, Stephen Blackmer FES ’83 DIV ’12 found his calling. The 49-year-old had spent his life working to conserve New England forests, but said that trip expanded his views on how to protect the environment...
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Environmental law students and practitioners should focus their efforts on attacking the often hidden architecture of the polluting state, according to a report released yesterday by the Yale Environmental Law Association.
The report details insights from the Yale Environmental Law Association’s inaugural conference in its New Directions in Environmental Law, which took place on April 2nd, 2011. The theme of last year’s conference - A Climate of Possibility – represented the goals and spirit of the day. It drew over 200 practitioners, policymakers, students, and academics together to critically examine law’s confrontation with climactic environmental and social challenges.
The conference galvanized participants to see environmental law in new ways—reflecting a range of social justice and scientific concerns and replete with unexplored possibilities. It inaugurated an annual series of conversations intended to…
I’m really excited—tomorrow night I’m going to my first New Haven Symphony concert at Woolsey Hall in close to 15 years. For over a hundred years, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra has been playing for the citizens of the Elm City, and I really can’t wait to re-expose myself to some of the cultural history of New Haven. Something about entering a space like Woolsey Hall (see the picture!), and being transported to another place through sights and sounds... it is just an occasional indulgence into the arts for me (I’m more of a sports girl), but one I really look forward to!
When living in New York City, my favorite thing to do every summer was claim a piece of grass as my own for a few hours in Central…
