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Do we have the ABILITY to achieve SustainABILITY?

Matt Kusche ·

12 October 2021

| MEES 620 Fall 2021 | 7 comments

Matt Kusche, a second year master's student in the Environment and Society foundation of the MEES program, writes about accountability in sustainability.

A silhouette of a person doing yoga in front of a flower.

The Mental Yoga of Environment & Society

Bill Dennison ·

29 September 2021

| MEES 620 Fall 2021 | 10 comments

Bill Dennison describes the mental yoga used when exploring environment and society.

A woman with dark hair and skin dressed in traditional native clothing and facial paint, bending over a pot that’s on a smoldering fire. She is holding a log.

Let’s Learn Things We Never Knew, We Never Knew

Nicole Holmes ·

22 September 2021

| MEES 620 Fall 2021 | 9 comments

Nicole Holmes, a master’s student in the Environment & Society Foundation of the MEES program invites the reader to walk in the footsteps of our neighbor, over and over again.

Rachel Carson sitting on a dock, black and white.

Poetry and Progress: Connecting Emotion to the Environment

Barry Bowman ·

15 September 2021

| MEES 620 Fall 2021 | 7 comments

Barry Bowman, a master's student in the Environment and Society foundation of the MEES program, discusses how the use of emotional language when communicating scientific knowledge can increase the positive public perceptions about science and the environment.

Looking through the Lens of Environmental Justice

Katrina Kelly ·

2 December 2020

Katrina Kelly recaps the environmental justice lecture from the MEES Environment and Society course.

Chickens in Tanzania, rabid dogs in Indonesia, and road-killed pigs in Samoa: Exploring ethnographies of environmental knowledge in indigenous, local, and traditional cultures, to assess agreement between actions, perceptions, and values

Kirk Saylor ·

17 November 2020

Kirk Saylor synthesizes the MEES 620 - Environment and Society class discussion on Ethnographical Approaches

The Search for Common Ground: A Case for Cultural Models

Aubrey Tingler ·

10 November 2020

Aubrey Tingler synthesizes the MEES Environment and Society course discussion on Cultural Models and Cultural Consensus.

Got complex problems? Have a transdisciplinary smoothie!

Elisabeth Powell ·

3 November 2020

Every day we are seeing problems in the news, widespread wildfires in California, rising COVID-19 cases nationwide, intense hurricanes sweeping the coasts, racial injustices, and the list goes on. This is unsettling as the news rarely reports on solutions to these problems. This might be from the lack of media attention to the solutions or these problems do not have current solutions to them, yet.