Awards serve a higher purpose when they turn our attention to crucial issues otherwise hidden from our daily lives. Because Matt Damon is this year’s recipient of the World Economic Forum Crystal Award, his concise explanation of the global water crisis and the work of Water.org has attracted a few important moments of the planet’s attention. Relevant remarks begin at 0:50.
Visit Water.org here.
Watch the Huffpost Live interview here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf6meS-3q7c
Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.
Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis
Inspired by new scientific studies of the human body as a metabiome, Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis, Professor and chair, Department of Environmental Science and Studies, reimagines the American body politic through a new metaphor — digestion — opening social transformations to ideas of mixing, fermentation, and collaboration. In doing so, she explores how social activists can rethink politics as inclusive processes that involve the inherently risky mixing of cultures, standpoints, and ideas. Dangerous Digestion at Amazon.
