I just finished touring some great east coast universities with my daughter. Her interests of study are in Environmental Science and Public Policy. I don’t know where these came from: Maybe her summer internship at The Nature Conservancy? Perhaps my constant dinner conversations on how we need to work harder, faster and smarter to get our natural resources managed for the long term?

Either way, my daughter benefited from some great meetings with several professors at each of the schools we visited. In almost every case, the conversations turned to what these educators see in Mongolia, Antarctica, the Arctic, and all around the world in terms of crisis and need: Many of the world’s natural systems are becoming unstable and that can cause huge issues. These professors love what they do and are passionately teaching students about the dire issues they are seeing in hopes of inspiring the next generation to get active and create change.
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