International initiatives to promote landscape restoration such as the Bonn Challenge have inspired countries around the world to assess their…
Across the country, public- and private-sector stakeholders have set ambitious goals for reducing energy emissions and investing in renewables. New…
I grew up in a dense urban area in California, with minimal exposure to the outdoors, where neighborhood parks were…
It’s well known that meat has a high environmental impact, largely because of the amount of corn animals are fed,…
This summer, IonE was fortunate to host three undergraduate students – Roxana Ayala, Manisha Rattu, and Ramiro Pinedo Jr. – from…
Nearly 20 years ago, the American environmental scientist Jane Lubchenco called for a new “Social Contract for Science,” arguing that…
Adapted from a news release by Carolyn Shapiro and Basil Waugh, Communications Officer, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, basil.waugh@uvm.edu. Let’s…
The NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise (NiSE), a strategic initiative of University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, today announced…
With a growing population, rapid urbanization and environmental degradation from economic development, China faces a number of complex, wicked problems.…
People love reflecting back on shared experiences in the human experiment via year-end compilations: National Geographic’s best photos, Minnesota Public…