Every year, the C2C Fellows Network sponsors a graduate from our first-round sustainability leadership workshops to attend StartingBloc’s Institute for Social Innovation in NYC. This 5-day experience promises to be “transformative…during which emerging global leaders learn to increase their impact, exponentially”. The Institute focuses on social entrepreneurship – the idea …
Reposted from BRKFREE By Peter Croce, C2C Fellow There is a major gap in the assumption that market production is a mirror of consumer demand. It’s not, because the mirror is dirty. It’s a problem of transparency.
Reposted from Switchboard By Kelly Henderson, C2C Fellow, National Resources Defense Council As a young person in an organization full of seasoned experts, I often find myself wanting to learn and do more to not only contribute to the organization’s goals, but also to develop my own personal skill set …
By: David Nacmanie After living for more than two years in the small island nation of Samoa, I am well aware of the many challenges facing these small island states. From devastating tropical cyclones and tsunamis to water shortages and heat waves, these countries face big challenges with few resources. …
By Eban Goodstein, Director Bard Center for Environmental Policy A signature organizing tool of the Civil Rights and Vietnam war era was the Washington rally. Rallies were how folks, as Bill McKibben says, put the “move in the movement”. Climate organizers have shown that we can do this too, with …
Check out C2C Fellow Nick Stracco leading divestment at Tulane! Keep up the good work, Taco! Reposted from The Tulane Hullabaloo By Kaila Lopez A new on-campus organization, Divest Tulane, is pushing for Tulane to end its endowment investments in fossil …
By Comly Wilson, C2C Fellow Reposted from Renewable Energy World. Now that the Sequester has officially begun, people are wondering what the impacts will be, both long term and short term. The message from the two sides of the political spectrum could not be more opposite. Republicans are confident that …
By: Serafina Zeringo MS ’13 and Kyle Rorah MS ’13 Mark Reynolds, Executive Director of the Citizens Climate Lobby, spoke on the National Climate Seminar this week about citizen engagement, education, and environmental activism as ways to push Congress to have a stronger stance on environmental protection. Citizens Climate Lobby gains its …
Reposted from The Advocate By Nick Stracco The article “La. coast facing grim reality” republished in The Advocate highlights new data that shows that Louisiana is likely to see “the highest rate of relative sea-level rise on the planet.” Tim Osborn, the expert quoted in the article, mentioned at Tulane’s …
Where there is land there is land, where there is land there is risk, where there is risk needs attention. By: Laura Arias Doesn’t it always seem like governments only attempt to protect the natural environment when natural disasters that are triggered by environmental degradation occur? Even in such situations …