Sustainability Talks

The Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook serves as a training manual that helps to streamline the management of ecosystem services. With the guidebook, resource managers can create clear, workable plans that prioritize the work needed to establish and maintain resilient communities throughout the country.

Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, announces the Nicholas Institute's 10-Year Retrospective.

In December 2014, the National Ecosystem Services Partnership at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions published an online guidebook that provides a framework and methodology to enhance the credibility and consistency of ecosystem services approaches to planning and management. In a recent webinar, held in honor of the Nicholas Institute's 10th Anniversary, Lydia Olander discusses the Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook (https://nespguidebook.com/). The webinar touches on the impetus for the guidebook, describe how agencies are using it, and walks participants through its contents.

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Nicholas School of the Environment brought two panels of experts to Duke Dec. 12 to discuss how innovative cities are integrating ecosystem services into urban planning. Will Allen, GIS mapping the provision of ecosystem services Jeff LeJava, transferable development rights Bobby Cochran, compliance and voluntary ecosystem service markets

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Nicholas School of the Environment brought two panels of experts to Duke Dec. 12 to discuss how innovative cities are integrating ecosystem services into urban planning. Mitchell Silver, Raleigh North Carolina Mami Hara, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dale Lyons, Santa Fe, New Mexico Robert Garcia, Los Angeles, California

Deep sea environments are being destroyed by human activity before they’ve even been described. presenter: Robyn Williams; producer: David Fisher Featuring Linwood Pendleton of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Jay Golden, director of the Duke Center for Sustainability & Commerce, delivers the luncheon keynote at the National Academy of Engineering's June conference.

Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the British Consulate General co-hosted a lecture featuring Woking, U.K. Chief Executive Ray Morgan. During the lecture, Morgan described his experiences implementing sustainability programs in Woking and shared the lessons he learned.

Andrew Revkin, a prize-winning journalist and New York Times blogger, gave a lecture titled "Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak Us?" at Duke January 18. The event was co-sponsored by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Sanford School of Public Policy, and the Nicholas School of the Environment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water's priorities have been reducing nutrient pollution in important water bodies stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico as well as improving management of storm water pollution. Ellen Gilinsky, who was recently appointed to serve as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Water, gave a lecture at Duke discussing the EPA's efforts to reduce these pollutants from urban and agricultural sources.