BY MATTHEW ESCANO
In 2002, a team of scientists led by Mathis Wackernagel, an analyst at Redefining Progress, determined that mankind’s consumption surpassed the earth’s regenerative capacity around 1980. This study, published by the U.S. Academy of Sciences, also estimated that the world’s demands in 1999 exceeded the earth’s capacity by 20 percent. Donella and Dennis [...]

BY TANEJA YOUNG
I was born in Barbados and grew up on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. Trinidad has a rich and varied culture, having been colonized by the Spanish, the French and finally the British. Under British rule, indentured labourers from India and slaves from Africa came to work on the sugar-cane plantations. [...]

By Anna Kellar
On December 8, the Yale Afghanistan Forum brought Professor Mariam Abou-Zahab, of Science-Po (home of the Paris Globalist), to New Haven to speak about the origins of the Taliban. Professor Abou-Zahab is a political sociologist, and an expert on the Pashtun tribal areas.
While at Yale, she discussed her current work over lunch with [...]

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at the Bella Center– Erin Schutte
Security was at its tightest today as protestors attempted to storm the conference center, the metro station shut down, and even registered observers with their secondary passes were denied entrance the Bella Center after one unnamed delegation supposedly let in some delegates through a back door.  Fortunately, [...]

Monday, December 14, 2009–Erin Schutte
The observers inside the Bella Center today are thankful they set their alarm clocks. Registration for COP15 got bogged down nearly immediately after the doors opened this morning at 8 AM, causing thousands of environmentalists to wait for hours outside the venue in the bitter Danish winter. I arrived at the [...]

Click  Tony Blair at Yale to watch a video clip of Tony Blair sharing his opinion about President Barack Obama’s first year in office.
On December 10th, Yale University President, Richard C. Levin, hosted a conversation between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and and former President of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo. Both Blair and Zedillo have joined [...]

JULIANA BIONDO
Despite missing out on acquiring a special media pass, I certainly did not miss out on learning from Tony Blair and Ernesto Zedillo.  Former leaders came to Yale University for an informal conversation with President Levin discussing the phenomenon of globalization.  From religion to economics, this topic of bringing people together was broached from [...]

DIANA SAVERIN
Throughout the conversation with Ernesto Zedillo and Tony Blair, the topic of globalization arose in a variety of contexts. I did not find this particularly surprising, given that both of their seminars at Yale focus on the effects of globalization around the world. What I did find surprising, though, was the their meaning of [...]

ERIN SCHUTTE
Even though the former Prime Minister of the Britain is in his second year as a professor at Yale University, it’s not every day that its students have the opportunity to sit down for a Conversation with Tony Blair.  That is why hundreds of students and members of the Yale community lined up outside [...]