The Gund Institute for Environment collaborates with Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E), a transdisciplinary research initiative based at UVM and McGill University that advances collaborative research, teaching, and leadership for a just and sustainable future.

Rooted in the disciplines of ecological economics at UVM and anthropology at McGill, L4E is a vibrant intellectual community of students, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars, activists, and Indigenous thinkers collaborating to enable a socially just transition to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.

L4E works toward the Ecozoic era through four key areas:

1. Facilitating transdisciplinary research that empowers emerging leaders;
2. Building a research-to-action network that connects theory with practice;
3. Engaging in advocacy and creative communications; and
4. Reimagining teaching and learning across campuses and communities.

For more information, contact Julie Starr at julie.starr@uvm.edu and visit https://www.l4ecozoic.org/.

L4E is a community that trains PhD student fellows and conducts research with a focus on an Ecozoic future in which all life on earth thrives. PhD student fellows are at the center of our mission and are joined by postdoctoral scholars, research staff, faculty partners, outside collaborators, alumni, and an international network of like-minded institutes and organizations. L4E roots its work in Ecological Economics (housed at UVM in CDAE) and Anthropology (housed at McGill in the Department of Anthropology).

Key Dates

• 2025 dates coming soon

Contacts

• Josh Farley (jfarley@uvm.edu)
• Matt Burke (matthew.burke@uvm.edu)
• Joe Ament (joseph.ament@uvm.edu)
• Jon Erickson (jon.erickson@uvm.edu)
• Dina Spigelski