Ecosystem Degradation

Why Obama's Pick for NOAA Matters: Jane Lubchenco

Janet Ritz | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green


Janet Ritz

As reported in The Environmentalist last April, the Chinook salmon run in the Sacramento River has collapsed.

Growing the Wealth of the World's Poor

Jonathan Lash | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green


Jonathan Lash

Today, two billion people live on $2 a day or less, the same number that did two decades ago. By 2050, the world's population will grow to nine billion, and climate change will intensify the challenges pervading daily life for the rural poor.

From Floods of Hope to Rebuilding With Resilience

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green


Graham Hill

All of us in the green movement who woke up Wednesday to the flood of hopeful feeling cascading through the country (and the world) in the wake of Bar...

Getting Personal With Tom Friedman

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.25.2008 | Green


Bill Chameides

Tom Friedman, the Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times columnist, came to Duke this week to chat up his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded.