Ricardo Bayon ’89, an IBES advisory council member and founder of Encourage Capital, teaches the ever-popular course "Finance and the Environment" at Brown.
This article cites a report from IBES' Climate and Development Lab, which found many of New Jersey's anti-offshore wind groups are affiliated with a Delaware-based libertarian think tank that is aligned with fossil fuel advocates.
Myles Lennon, assistant professor in IBES and the Department of Anthropology, joined fellow scholars to discuss the expansion of capitalism and commodities, including renewable energy.
This article cites a report from IBES' Climate and Development Lab, which found that much of the funding behind offshore wind opposition groups comes from entities with close ties to the oil and gas industry.
IBES and History Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth was interviewed about how the rural region between Canada and Russia has been transformed by colonialism and climate change.
IBES and Sociology Professor Timmons Roberts discussed why climate advocates should know "what strategies and the tactics are being used" by anti-renewables activists.
IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon discusses "improperty": "modes of ownership that paradoxically unsettle the logics of accumulation and enclosure that are proper to the property form."
NPR's Leila Fadel spoke with IBES and DEEPS Professor Amanda Lynch about why president-elect Donald Trump is seeking to take control of Greenland and Panama.