What if you had to decide between feeding your family today and saving the environment for future generations? That's exactly the choice families along the stretch of river between Guatemala and Belize have to make. Switzer Fellow Dave Kramer of EcoLogic Development Fund is helping them find common ground to create a sustainable fishery that will serve everyone.
Dr. Meredith Niles is Acting Director of the Gund Institute for Environment, Associate Director of the Food Systems Research Center, and an Associate Professor in food systems and nutrition at the University of Vermont. Her research...
Elisabeth Stoddard, or Lisa, is an Associate Professor, TRT, and the co-Director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, MA. She teaches courses focused on environmental...
Caroline works with communities to address local environmental and social challenges through interventions that combine technology, social enterprise, and education. Working both in urban and rural areas, internationally and in her own...
Kevin Kung earned his Ph.D. from MIT, focusing on biofuels and renewable energy, and specializes in biomass and energy conversion systems, engineering design in resource-constrained settings, and waste industry innovation. In 2012, by...
Max serves as the president of the Jackson Hole Land Trust, leading efforts to protect to functionality and connectivity of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Max is a father and a husband and enjoys spending as much time outdoors in...
Devaughn is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley and spent several years working on a variety of field projects...
Ellen Mallory of the University of Maine and Heather Darby of the University of Vermont are the project directors of The Northern New England Local Bread Wheat Project, a USDA funded initiative intended to help local farmers increase the production and quality of organic bread wheat. Northeastern wheat growers, such as Tate McPherson and Matt Porter, who are the primary producers of grains for the Somerset Grist Mill in Skowhegan, Maine recognize the importance of the project's results, determining which wheat varieties to grow based on Mallory's variety trials.
The Organic Center today named Jessica Shade, Ph.D., to serve in its newly created position of Director of Science Programs. She begins working for The Organic Center today.
Are single-family ranches harming biological diversity in the Negev? According to a new study, they may well be doing so in the long run. Read more (requires subscription)
