Saleem Ali on Treasures of the Earth
In the pleasing quietness of his house — a place where Pakistani prayer rugs lie in maroon rectangles on top of clean, white, wall-to-wall Berber carpet — Saleem Ali tends his treasure. There is the soft laughter of his two sons upstairs, "needful treasures in my life," he calls them in the dedication to his new book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and A Sustainable Future.... (in UVM's University Communications website, 11/4/09)

Kaza Welcomed as Director of Environmental Program
“Barack Obama: he’s on our side,” said Stephanie Kaza, as she was formally welcomed as the new director of UVM’s Environmental Program in a reception at the Fleming Museum on Tuesday evening. A nationally noted scholar of Buddhism and ecology, Kaza has been a professor in UVM’s environmental program since 1991, bringing a richly diverse education — including a doctorate in biology and master’s degrees in both education and divinity — to her teaching and research.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 11/19/08)

Saleem Ali Selected as 'Revolutionary Mind'
Saleem Ali imagines that the Siachen Glacier, perched on the warwracked
border between India and Pakistan, can be turned into a shared
“peace park,” helping to build trust and diplomatic connections between
these countries. And he’s doing more than just imagining: he’s helped
shape meetings, planned for later this year between the two
governments, to seriously consider the idea.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 10/17/07)

New Book Argues for Making Parks, Not War
Peace parks can work. Not just for managing cross-boundary wilderness areas, as occurs in the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park at the US/Canadian border, but as a powerful tool of diplomacy in war zones around the world. That is the conclusion of the book Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution, which was edited by Saleem Ali, associate professor of environmental planning in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, and published by the MIT Press.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 9/12/07)

Comparing Crags
"New England's alpine ecosystems are extremely rugged and extremely fragile," says Rick Paradis, instructor in Comparative Mountain Systems Natural History and Conservation. Paradis brought his students to Mt. Mansfield for one of four field trips that form the heart of the course.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 4/26/07)

Earth Is Taking Messages: Environmental art class marks Earth Week with exhibit on the Green
Everyone’s talking about Earth — its vulnerabilities, its victimization at the hands of its most dangerous species and its future. Some among the species have been caretaking and interpreting Earth for the rest of us for a long time. Many believe the time has come for all of us to listen and to act more personally. Cami Davis, lecturer in art, is among them.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 4/9/07)

Conflict and Complexity
Associate Professor Saleem Ali uses his field’s methods to study difficult
issues ranging from the roots of terror to the costs of gold. (Interview by Kevin Foley in the Winter 2006 issue of UVM's Vermont Quarterly.)

Discourse and Power in Vermont Energy Decisions
Richard Watts, lecturer in the Environmental Program and policy fellow at the the Snelling Center for Government, will give a talk titled "Planning for Power: Citizen Participation in the Siting of a High-Voltage Transmission Line in Vermont." (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 1/18/06)

Ark of Hope
Lecturer Cameron Davis has a lifelong passion for art and the environment. The lecturer of art has long been successful at blending these loves in courses — now she’s combined the two in a participatory art project with international scope and resonance....(in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 11/07/05)

UVM’s Natural Nine
In anticipation of late spring and summer outings, however soggy the recent weather, the view spoke with Rick Paradis, a lecturer in the Environmental Program and manager of UVM’s natural areas, about the diversity and delights of the university’s lands.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 4/127/05)

Brewing Hope
It isn’t the caffeinated buzz that draws economist and environmentalist Héctor Sáez to coffee — he usually drinks decaf, though he’d hate for his Costa Rican farmer friends to discover that secret — it’s potential.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 3/16/05)

Environmental Council Celebrates Eight Years, Says Goodbye to One of its Founders
Professor Stephanie Kaza helped found UVM’s pioneering Environmental Council in 1996, and has served as the group’s faculty co-chair ever since...(in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 10/20/04)

Inside the Madrassahs
It’s conventional wisdom in much of the United States and Europe that Pakistan’s network of Islamic seminaries, or madrassahs, double as terrorist training camps that breed hate for the west....While the story has an appealing logic, it is vastly oversimplified, if not plain wrong, and may be responsible for misguided public policy in Pakistan, says Saleem Ali, an assistant professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 10/19/04)

Vermont Campus Greening Conference Gathers Environmental Leaders
Stephanie Kaza, professor natural resources, and her colleagues on the UVM Environmental Council spearheaded the first Vermont Campus Greening Conference, a two-day cavalcade of forums, lectures and networking.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 10/29/03)

Environmental Odyssey
Carl Reidel...helped establish UVM's Environmental Program, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 4/23/03)

Electronic Harmony
Students learn how to solve environmental conflicts through Web dialogue with their counterparts at Peking University.... Saleem Ali came up with the idea for cross-cultural Internet conversations after meeting with a professor at Beijing University on a trip to China last summer. Ali says he was impressed with the way students there were responsive to American concerns.... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 3/12/03)

Teaching Mindfully
In most college courses, students are expected to answer questions, solve problems, come to conclusions, master the facts. Quite the opposite is true in Stephanie Kaza’s Environmental Studies courses, where students learn to ask questions, articulate complex, multi-faceted problems and suspend judgment... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 10/07/02)

Students Grill Gubernatorial Candidates, Report on Web
Students in Richard Watts's class, ENVS 195: Politics and the Environment, have spent the spring semester researching and actively engaging in current environmental issues with candidates for governor and lieutenant governor of Vermont. The class has heard from Doug Racine, Anthony Pollina, Con Hogan, Peter Shumlin, Jim Douglas, Brian Dubie and Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle. (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 4/30/02)

Charlotte Kids Turn Tables on Environmental Educators
When fourth and fifth graders from Charlotte Central School deftly completed a role reversal on Dec. 4, travelling to UVM to teach a class to the UVM environmental education students who spent much of the semester teaching them, a mutual admiration society was born.  "My students are always blown away by the understanding of the Charlotte kids and the rich content of their presentation," says Tom Hudspeth, professor of environmental education. (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 12/05/01)

Getchell Guides with Irony
As a writing instructor in Continuing Education, Elizabeth Getchell teaches her students about simile, metaphor and irony. The latter may come easiest to Getchell, whose path to the front of the classroom has been, well, ironic... (in UVM's on-line newsletter, The View, 11/13/01)