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CHN Board Member Receives Honorary Degree

August 9th, 2008

Gus Speth, Dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Humans and Nature, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the commencement ceremonies of the University of South Carolina on August 9, 2008.

Speth, a native of Orangeburg, SC, attended South Carolina’s public schools, earned a bachelor’s and a law degree from Yale and a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is an accomplished environmental leader, lawyer, author and the founder of many organizations. His most recent book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, was published earlier this year. Read more about Dean Speth.

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