Final Capstone essay in Ecological Economics, Values and Policy based on a semester of graduate internship with SHV :

This paper discusses my internship and professional experience, along with the
knowledge gained through my master’s study in EEVP, to explore how this experience
and education fits within the framework of Transition Theory and how this theory can be
applied to bring about a fundamental shift to a more sustainable world.

What is EEVP? Perhaps only several hundred people, all now or formally associated
with Rensselaer, would correctly answer Ecological Economics, Values and Policy.
Considerably fewer would be able to articulate the objectives of this program of study.
This is unfortunate, because this is exactly the type of interdisciplinary studies needed to
help us understand and address our current ecological dilemmas.

I needn’t explain the current ecological crisis civilization is facing. If you aren’t worried
yet about climate change and loss of biodiversity, you’re not paying attention. As a
civilization we are far from sustainable because we waste too much energy and materials,
we pollute too much, we consume too much, and we are growing our population too fast.
The current social and technological landscape is unsustainable and needs to be radically
and quickly reshaped, or we are in jeopardy of irreversible ecological damage and
collapse.

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