Enthusiasm builds for 'Blue New Deal' after climate town hall
| by Rebecca Beitsch
Professor Jason Scorse is quoted as an early crafter of the Blue New Deal approach.
| by Rebecca Beitsch
Professor Jason Scorse is quoted as an early crafter of the Blue New Deal approach.
International Environmental Policy Professor Jason Scorse, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy, writes in The Conversation that conservative governments’ support for reducing carbon emissions acts as an economic stimulator.
“We’re trying to step into this void because most of the climate plans are really focused on the big manufacturing and industrial emitters and the big terrestrial sources of pollution,” said Jason Scorse, director of the Center for the Blue Economy “an early crafter of the Blue New Deal approach”, tells The Hill.
The Middlebury Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy is sponsoring eleven students from the International Environmental Policy program on summer internships with top marine organizations from the Bay Area to the Galapagos.
Center for the Blue Economy employment numbers are called into question in this article, but the results are misleading.
| by Susie Cagle
CBE Senior Fellow and Arctic researcher Dr. Brendan Kelly is quoted in this Mother Jones article.
Eleven students will travel around the world advocating for sustainable management of ocean and coastal resources. They are the 2019 Center for the Blue Economy Summer Fellows.