Profiles / Features


  1. The Tropical Resources Institute: Three Decades of Global Impact

    In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the F&ES-based Tropical Resource Institute, we asked several distinguished alumni to recollect the work they did while they were here, share what they’re doing today, and reflect on how their experiences with TRI changed their lives.

  2. Helping Companies Avoid ‘One Size Fits All’ Approach to Sustainability Solutions

    neil yeoh workshop 1 (1) Neil Yeoh leads a workshop during a Climate Braintrust event at the World Economic Forum’s San Francisco office in 2018. 
    Neil Yeoh ’20 M.E.M. understands as well as anyone that solving the world’s sustainability challenges will require experts working together across many disciplines. Over the past decade, he has examined these problems from a few different perspectives: as an engineer, as a management consultant, and, more recently, as an investor in climate solutions. 
     
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  3. Alum Introduces New Yorkers to The Forest in Their Own Backyard

    The city of New York contains more than 20,000 acres of forests and wetlands, a fact that even many New Yorkers might not realize. Sarah Charlop-Powers ’09 M.E.M. is trying to change that: her nonprofit is working to restore and conserve these natural spaces — and to get more city residents outdoors.

  5. A Systems Thinker Uses Market Forces to Strengthen Environmental Conservation

    Guillermo Castilleja has been described as a “true systems thinker,” something he says he developed while at F&ES. In an interview, Castilleja, a senior fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, shares his vision for the foundation, his advice to students, and where he finds hope as a conservationist.

  6. A Benevolent Goddess Begins to Melt

    The tendency for first-time visitors is to see the Himalayas as timeless and unchanging. Families thresh rice by hand, the sheaves swinging overhead, sending up plumes of dust, then down, swot, on a rock, over and over, until all the dry kernels of rice break loose and rain down in heaps. Chili peppers are spread out in bright

  8. Restoring Salmon Fisheries — and A Tribal Birthright — in Pacific Northwest

    After centuries of overfishing and development, salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest were on the brink of collapse by the late 20th century, presenting a grim challenge for Native American tribes that have long relied on the fish. Aja DeCoteau ’07 M.E.M. is part of a response plan that has helped spur a remarkable recovery.