ES Evening Lecture Series Podcast

This lecture explored the relationship between weight, health and obesity and how environmental factors can influence all three. Over the last 4 decades, obesity rates have tripled for children and adults. Over the same time period our environment as changed …

Ole Amundsen is the Executive Director of Maine Audubon, one of the oldest and most respected conservation groups in the country. Before joining Audubon, Ole led strategic conservation planning projects around the country and managed a land conservation lending program …

Dr.Kathryn Cottingham is currently a professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College whose main interests are in ecology and its application to environmental health. She earned her M.S and PhD. degrees from University of Wisconcin-Madison studying the effects of …

For generations the conservation and use of agro-biodiversity has been a keystone of rural farm livelihoods, especially for women. But as modern agricultural methods become increasingly the norm, community seed banks and custodian farmers and associated indigenous knowledge have come …

Peter Forbes is an author, conservationist, and co-founder and former director of the Center for Whole Communities. He has worked internationally helping communities and groups reach consensus on challenging issues, with his co-created curriculum “Whole Thinking.” For 15 years he …

Dr. Nick Record, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science…

Orbiting satellites are collecting an ever-increasing stream of observations of our planet: taking its picture, monitoring its processes, and measuring its health.  At SkyTruth they use these observations to shine a light on the environmental consequences of human activities, sometimes …

Some prominent scientists and policymakers assert with confidence that there is no scientific controversy over the health effects of GMOs—these GM crops are inherently safe and do not have to be tested. The scientific evidence, however, reveals a different story. …

Noah Wilson-Rich from The Best Bee’s company discusses how the world’s bees can create economic and ecological sustainability, if only we let them. We know the vital importance of bees, yet we also know that they are dying off. What …

Tim Glidden ’74, President of Maine Coast Heritage Trust discusses the many roots of the burgeoning national land conservation movement lie in Maine.   While federal ownership of public lands has defined the landscape of conservation in the West, private efforts …