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Justice For Islands That Suffer Most: Stacy-Ann Robinson, Gerry Boyle
Justice For Islands That Suffer Most: Stacy-Ann Robinson, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Robinson grew up in Jamaica and has seen the destruction levied on the island by extreme storms. A human geographer and assistant professor of environmental studies at Colby, Robinson has also seen firsthand the challenges faced by Jamaica and places like it as they try to obtain resources needed to cope with the brunt of climate change.
First Person, Colby College, Lokesh Todi
The Natural, Jeff Clark
The Natural, Jeff Clark
Colby Magazine
Just before Thanksgiving Day last November, Kent Wommack '77 got the classic good-news, bad-news, worse-news call. Wommack is head of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, and the caller was a timberland manager who had asked Wommack to back a client in acquiring prime acres of Maine forest on the upper St. John River, one of the most unspoiled waterways left in the United States. The good news was that the owner had agreed to sell the breathtaking chunk of land in the first place. The bad news was that the client was no longer interested in the deal. The worse …