Data center growth threatens Virginia’s clean energy future. It’s not too late to fix it.

By Adam Cowie-Haskell, MEM ’25 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Katharine Bond, VP, Public Policy, State, and Local Affairs, Dominion Energy and GT Hollett, Director, Offshore Wind, Dominion Energy, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Fall 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective […]

Public funds should be spent on saving communities that consider Nantucket a home, not a vacation destination

By Tatiana Sokolova, MEM/MBA ’24 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Vincent Murphy, Coastal Resilience Coordinator, Town of Nantucket, MA, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Spring 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke […]

To tackle climate change, take a page out of the anti-smoking playbook

By Thomas Cheng, MBA ’24 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Vincent Murphy, Coastal Resilience Coordinator, Town of Nantucket, MA, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Spring 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke […]

How COPs have enabled collective action on climate change

By Vishrut Chatrath, MBA ’22 This article is Part 2 in a 2-part series written by MBA student Vishrut Chatrath as a reflection after his trip to the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Post 2 of 2 In 1985, Carl Sagan, a planetary scientist, highlighted to the U.S. Congress that climate change is a global […]

Climate change and the need for collective action

By Vishrut Chatrath, MBA ’22 This article is Part 1 in a 2-part series written by MBA student Vishrut Chatrath as a reflection after his trip to the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Post 1 of 2 You might be wondering why news organizations labeled this year’s climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, as the “last […]