Featured Connection: Naval Architecture

Featured Connection: Naval Architecture

The Ancient Art of Shipbuilding Naval architecture has, in one form or another, existed as a profession since at least the times of the Ancient Egyptians. Back then, carving pictures of ships into rocks was the equivalent of today’s computer-aided design. And while...
Featured Connection: Fisheries Management

Featured Connection: Fisheries Management

Managing a Vital Food Source Fisheries play an essential role by providing a vital source of food in a sustainable manner. Fisheries are also a source of employment, recreation, trade, and economic well-being for people throughout the world. Globally, fisheries feed...
Toxic Communities

Toxic Communities

I highly recommend Yale Professor Dorceta Taylor’s book Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. The book analyzes the forces that constrain, compel, or encourage the movement of minorities. It examines the...
Featured Connection: Coastal Science

Featured Connection: Coastal Science

The Sustainable Use of Resources and Conservation of Biodiversity Coastal environments contain a wealth of biodiversity and economic opportunity. Due to the interaction of terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric processes, they are one of the most complex environments on...
What Would a Just Energy Transition Look Like for US Tribes?

What Would a Just Energy Transition Look Like for US Tribes?

Senior fellows JoRee LaFrance and Kevin Patterson join the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss energy production and use in their tribal communities and the challenges and opportunities to make it more sustainable. You can listen...
Featured Connection: Science Journalism

Featured Connection: Science Journalism

Making the Complex Understandable The rapidly changing scientific, medical and technical landscape requires the skills of a special type of journalist who can both understand and explain these changes to the general population. Science journalists take complicated...