Just a few weeks ago, a friend of mine called me in a state of panic saying that San Francisco was recently placed under a state of emergency due to the Rim Fire threatening the city’s water supply. This particular fire burned hundreds of thousands of acres in and around …
Gregory McAuliffe San Martín has deemed itself the Región Verde (Green Region) of Peru, and it is hard to challenge the name. Everywhere you travel in San Martín, you see the dense green vegetation of the alta selva, or high jungle. The landscape is littered with high mountains covered to …
????Hi all, I write to you from the Nanjing Institute for Geology and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, (NIGLAS). Since 1960, NIGLAS researchers have focused on understanding lake basin ecosystems in China. The Institute has also installed monitoring buoys on some of their lakes that allow it to gather lake …
By Will Mitchell, C2C Fellow The words that follow reflect Tenleytown Meat Company’s view on sustainability: “Sustainability is something good to strive for, daily, in all that we are. It is the honest, courageous, and exciting journey to create a future in which all people everywhere are able to live …
“Wait, what was that again?” My mind was spinning as I tried to keep track of the acronyms spewing out of everyone’s mouths on my first day of my internship. I seemed to have walked into a world of abbreviations; and to my astonishment, none of them were clearly identifiable. …
By Peter Croce, C2C Fellow “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Jim exploded as he leapt out onto the grass. “Just what the hell do you think you’re doing?” There, in his beautiful backyard, the mowers he’d hired were packing up their equipment in a scene that, he imagined, could be mistaken for …
My internship with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has been a great reminder of what I loved so much about working in sustainability. Perhaps it’s just the southern charm that I missed when I lived in New York, but everyone here is so polite, whether it’s greeting each other …
Every year, the C2C Fellows Network sponsors a graduate from our first-round sustainability leadership workshops to attend Wellstone Action’s Camp Wellstone. This 2.5 day long workshop is open to anyone interested in gaining practical skills in progressive political action. Wellstone Action trains candidates, campaign workers, and organizers on how to win progressive change. …
I have spent my summer interning with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the Global Gender Office (GGO) in Washington D.C. What an experience it has been! IUCN is an intergovernmental agency working to find “pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environmental and development challenges.” And gender …
C2C is a versatile acronym that means several things. It stands for Campus 2(to) Congress, Campus to City Hall, Campus to Capitol Hill — and Campus to Corporation. We use “corporation” as a catch-all for entrepreneurship at every level –starting your own business, joining the team at a small company, or …