E4A Takes on Water Quality

This summer the nine PhD students and two MS students in the Economics for the Anthropocene’s (E4A) water cohort will be participating in a problem-based field course in Vermont looking at water quality issues in the Lake Champlain Basin. One of the goals of the E4A program is […]

David Suzuki and the Blue Dot Tour

By Christopher Orr David Suzuki has long been doing tours, speaking publicly and advocating for environmental issues. A Canadian icon, but also known on the world stage, David Suzuki is widely respected as a scientist and environmental advocate, as well as someone able to translate science into language […]

Reflections on a Fall Internship at UN Headquarters

Phoebe Spencer, UVM September was a busy month for the E4A project. Students and professors gathered for the first time at a weekend-long retreat, where our tangible excitement for new research had everyone ready for the start of our exciting new project. As the retreat ended, I boarded […]

Building a new economy

Blog Post by E4A PhD Student Matt Burke Why do mainstream economic policies of (over)developed nations, at all scales and in all sectors, continue to promote and depend upon unending economic growth? And how can we begin to understand alternatives? In a recent post to VTDigger.org, author Eric […]