A Fateful Year for Climate Change

Since 1979, 20% of the polar ice cap has melted away. While the public is aware of climate change, the urgency to action is not there. Climate change is also an issue of national security, but enforcement of the the Kyoto and Copenhagen treaties is hampered

How We\u27re Doing: A Composite Index of Global and National Trends & Metropolitan Las Vegas: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Vision

In addition to “forming a more perfect union” and “justice” and “domestic tranquility,” we focused on three cores, or what we thought were the three core missions of the federal government at the time of founding: providing for a common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty. And we tried to think across the institution, how do we marry up against that and against those three core objectives of government and how we assess and understand where the country and world is at any one time? How do we connect the local, the national, and the global, and how do we bring the economic and political dimensions of those spheres of focus together in a way? And so our first How We Are Doing Index tried to do that. And what we tried to do in this first index was benchmark the first six months of the Obama presidency against the five predecessors and how they were doing at six months into their presidency in each of these three spheres

Game Change: What Have We Learned? Pt. 1

Who We Are, What We Do, Where Are We Going Brookings Mountain West is a partnership between UNLV and the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. Goals and Objectives Create high-quality, independent, impactful programs, publications, and activities that address issues of critical importance to greater Las Vegas and the Intermountain West region. Serve as a platform to bring ideas and expertise together and facilitate local, metropolitan, and state discussions about the West’s future. Enhance local, regional, and state research and public policy discussions

Opening address

The 2010 UNLV Clean Energy Forum will take place on the UNLV campus September 8th. The event focuses on clean energy production in Nevada, the US Southwest, and clean research projects nationwide. Subject matter will focus on financing, national policy, current technologies, and nuclear energy