Solving environmental problems often comes down to solving people problems. How can we compel individuals and groups to accept willingly—and, better, to seek out—more sustainable life patterns? This is one of the main challenges of creating meaningful environmental change, and the overarching focus of SNRE’s Behavior, Education, and Communication field of study.
As a Behavior, Education, and Communication specialist, you will learn how people think, what drives them, and the conditions under which they behave most reasonably and creatively. You will develop conceptual frameworks and learn to employ strategies to address local, regional, and global environmental problems by motivating individuals, groups, and organizations to adopt impactful behavior patterns. Through leadership and engagement, you will influence human behavior and empower diverse communities to achieve the ultimate goal of enduring environmental sustainability.
"The Behavior, Education, and Communication track at SNRE combines my interests in psychology and environmental conservation. It provides a background in the environmental sciences along with the tools to change our collective behaviors. When I graduate, I plan to work as an organizer to help communities share resources and foster environmental stewardship.”
— Spencer Harbo, Behavior, Education, and Communication student track leader
CURRICULUM
SNRE’s Behavior, Education, and Communication coursework builds a sophisticated understanding of the causes, dynamics, and consequences of decisions and actions that impact natural resources and the environment. You will study human behavior—both current and evolutionary—in the context of the environment. You will learn to share information effectively, use instructional and motivational techniques to encourage desired behaviors, and negotiate conflicts by engaging diverse stakeholders to address sustainability challenges collaboratively. Course Sampling
Advanced Environmental Education
Social Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Change
Network Analysis for Natural Resource and Environmental Planning
Natural Resources Conflict Management
Psychology of Environmental Stewardship
Natural Resources Conflict Management
Negotiation Skills in Environmental Dispute Resolution
Public Opinion and the Environment
Behavior and Environment
Localization Seminar: Transitional Thinking
CAREERS AND SELECT EMPLOYERS
You will graduate equipped with the background and skills to work as an environmental advocate, communicator, K-12 or non-formal educator, an environmental engagement, outreach, or sustainability manager, a conservation behavior specialist, or an environmental dispute resolution specialist. The following are select employers of BEC graduates:
4 egg yolks
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted (1 stick)
Pinch cayenne
Pinch salt
EGGS BENEDICT
8 slices Canadian bacon
4 English muffins, split
2 teaspoons white vinegar
8 eggs
Salt and pepper, to taste
Hollandaise sauce, recipe above
Fresh chopped parsley, for garnish
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Directions
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Vigorously whisk the egg yolks and lemon juice together in a stainless steel bowl and until the mixture is thickened and doubled in volume. Place the bowl over a saucepan containing barely simmering water (or use a double boiler,) the water should not touch the bottom of the bowl. Continue to whisk rapidly. Be careful not to let the eggs get too hot or they will scramble. Slowly drizzle in the melted butter and continue to whisk until the sauce is thickened and doubled in volume. Remove from heat, whisk in cayenne and salt. Cover and place in a warm spot until ready to use for the eggs benedict. If the sauce gets too thick, whisk in a few drops of warm water before serving.
Brown the bacon in a medium skillet and toast the English muffins, cut sides up, on a baking sheet under the broiler.
Fill a 10-inch nonstick skillet half full of water. Add white vinegar to the cooking water. This will make the egg white cook faster so it does not spread. Bring to a slow boil. Gently break 1 of the eggs into the water taking care not to break it. Repeat with remaining eggs. Reduce the heat to a gentle simmer. Cook 3 1/2 minutes until the egg white is set and yolk remains soft. Remove with a slotted spoon, allowing the egg to drain. To assemble: Lay a slice of Canadian bacon on top of each muffin half, followed by a poached egg. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon hollandaise sauce over the eggs. Garnish with chopped parsley. Yield: 4 servings
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1 sprig fresh rosemary
1 sprig fresh thyme
1 dry bay leaf
2 whole cloves
Cheesecloth
Kitchen twine, for bouquet garni and tying the veal shanks
3 whole veal shanks (about 1 pound per shank), trimmed
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
All purpose flour, for dredging
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 small onion, diced into 1/2-inch cubes
1 small carrot, diced into 1/2-inch cubes
1 stalk celery, diced into 1/2 inch cubes
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 cup dry white wine
3 cups chicken stock
3 tablespoons fresh flat-leaf Italian parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon zest
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Place the rosemary, thyme, bay leaf and cloves into cheesecloth and secure with twine. This will be your bouquet garni.
For the veal shanks, pat dry with paper towels to remove any excess moisture. Veal shanks will brown better when they are dry. Secure the meat to the bone with the kitchen twine. Season each shank with salt and freshly ground pepper. Dredge the shanks in flour, shaking off excess.
In a large Dutch oven pot, heat vegetable oil until smoking. Add tied veal shanks to the hot pan and brown all sides, about 3 minutes per side. Remove browned shanks and reserve.
In the same pot, add the onion, carrot and celery. Season with salt at this point to help draw out the moisture from the vegetables. Saute until soft and translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the tomato paste and mix well. Return browned shanks to the pan and add the white wine and reduce liquid by half, about 5 minutes. Add the bouquet garni and 2 cups of the chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover pan and simmer for about 1 1/2 hours or until the meat is falling off the bone. Check every 15 minutes, turning shanks and adding more chicken stock as necessary. The level of cooking liquid should always be about 3/4 the way up the shank.
Carefully remove the cooked shanks from the pot and place in decorative serving platter. Cut off the kitchen twine and discard.
Remove and discard bouquet garni from the pot.
Pour all the juices and sauce from the pot over the shanks. Garnish with chopped parsley and lemon zest.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis
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How to Make Apple Roses with this simple recipe for beautiful and gourmet individual apple pastries. Can be made ahead of time and perfect for Thanksgiving! Step-by-step video included.
You’ve probably seen these apple roses floating around the internet lately and thought they looked way too difficult to actually make. Well, I’ve made a video tutorial and am sharing an easy recipe with you to show you just how simple they are!
In one of my first baking classes in culinary school it felt like if something could be potentially made into a rose shape, we ended up doing it. That’s when I discovered it really isn’t all that difficult to manipulate something just enough to make it look absolutely gorgeous and totally gourmet!
Watch the step-by-step video below to see exactly how these come together. The full printable recipe is further below! Also, this is the mandolin I used to get super thin slices. Love it!
Taste: Kind of like apple pie but with more of a pastry twist! Texture: Flaky, buttery, tender, and juicy. Ease: Surprisingly easy and can be made ahead of time! Just requires a little bit of prep. Appearance: Obviously the best part – absolutely beautiful! Pros: Super fun and impressive individually sized dessert perfect for special occasions. Cons: None. Would I make this again? Yes!
2 apples (pink lady, braeburn, or honeycrisp) Juice of half a lemon 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 sheet puff pastry, thawed Flour, for dusting 3 tablespoons apricot or strawberry preserves Powdered sugar, for dusting
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease a standard muffin tin. Core the apples and slice in half. Using a very sharp knife or mandolin on the second setting, slice paper thin 1/8-inch slices and immediately sprinkle and toss in lemon juice prevent browning. Toss in the butter, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Microwave the slices for 45 seconds, or until soft and pliable enough to mold. Place the puff pastry on a lightly floured work surface. Roll out into a 9 by 12-inch rectangle. Cut six 2-inch wide strips of dough. In a small bowl, combine the preserves with 2 tablespoons of water. Microwave for 30 seconds if it was refrigerated. Spread evenly over each strip of dough. Arrange about 10 apple slices lengthwise in a straight line, overlapping slightly, on a strip of dough. Fold up the bottom part of the dough and begin tightly rolling the dough to form the rose shape. Press the edge to seal. Repeat for all the pies and place in the muffin tin. Make ahead: at this point the unbaked assembled roses can be covered and stored in the fridge for up to 1 day before baking as directed. Bake for 40 minutes, or until golden and cooked through. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired. Pastries are best served the day they are baked but can be stored in an airtight container and rewarmed in a 300°F oven for 5 to 10 minutes, or until warmed through and flaky again.
Dr. Phil McGraw reveals the secret for finally putting an end to the never-ending rollercoaster of failed weight loss attempts with his new diet plan, The 20/20 Diet. In the no-nonsense, get-real style that he’s known for, Dr. Phil brings much-needed truth and reality to the struggle of losing weight. Then, he addresses each of these roadblocks by applying the latest research and theories that have emerged since his last best-seller on the same topic, The Ultimate Weight Solution (Free Press; September, 2003).
The book not only programs readers for success by helping them take control of their eating and exercise habits, it also harnesses the power of emerging scientific theories and research indicating that certain foods can potentially increase caloric burn and work with the body to amplify the feeling of fullness. The 20/20 Diet is being released a full 10 years after Dr. Phil's initial weight management book, The Ultimate Weight Solution, his biggest selling book of all time and updates 10 years of progress.
Readers will discover 20 key foods, called the 20/20 Foods, which theories indicate may help enhance the body’s thermogenesis (or caloric burn) and help you feel full. But that is just the beginning! This book reveals the truth about why some people haven't been able to lose weight in the past and gives readers important cognitive, behavioral, environmental, social and nutritional tools to finally reach their weight loss goals. As Dr. Phil says, "You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it."
The comic, whose career has spanned decades in the industry, is known for his turns with the 'Larry Sanders Show' and 'It's Garry Shandling's Show.'
Comedian Garry Shandling died Thursday,a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 66. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to an address believed to be Shandling's at 10:40 a.m. on "a medical emergency." The patient was then transported to Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica. A Los Angeles medical examiner told THR on Friday morning Shandling died of suspected natural causes. For the moment, no autopsy is planned as doctors' reports are pending for the exact cause of death, Lt. David Smith with the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner told THR. Those reports may be done by the end of the day, Smith said. The comic, whose career has spanned decades in the industry, is known for influential and highly regarded turns in two comedy series: TheLarry Sanders Show and It's Garry Shandling's Show. In recent years, a more private Shandling popped up intermittently and unexpectedly in mainstream movies such as Marvel's Captain America: Winter Soldier and Iron Man 2. Born in Chicago, Shandling's family relocated to Tucson, Ariz., to help treat his older brother, Barry, who suffered from cystic fibrosis. Barry died at age 10 but the family remained. Shandling moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to give comedy writing a shot. He first earned a living writing ad copy, but his dry, cerebral wit quickly earned him staff-writer gigs on such sitcoms a Sanford and Son and Welcome Back, Kotter. In 1977, when he was 27, Shandling was in a serious car accident in Beverly Hills that nearly killed him. "I had a vivid near-death experience that involved a voice asking, 'Do you want to continue leading Garry Shandling's life?'" he later wrote. "Without thinking, I said, 'Yes.' Since then, I've been stuck living in the physical world while knowing, without a doubt, that there's something much more meaningful within it all. That realization is what drives my life and work."
From that moment on, Shandling decided to concentrate on stand-up comedy, finding the constraints of traditional sitcom writing limiting. He started performing at the Comedy Store in L.A. a year later, and quickly developed a stage persona that capitalized on his real-life neuroses. In 2007, Shandling toldEsquire, "I remember when I was a struggling comic appearing for the first time in Las Vegas. Don Rickles came in to watch the new guy. Afterward, he came backstage, and I asked him if he thought I was funny. He said, 'You know when you're funny. You don't have to ask.' And he was right." Shandling's career-making moment — a spot on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show — came on March 18, 1981. Carson immediately warmed to Shandling and the comic was soon a regular fixture on the late-night talker, eventually replacing Joan Rivers (who Carson shunned after she left to host her own show on the fledgling Fox network in 1986) as the permanent guest host. In the meantime, he forged a reputation as one of premium cable's most dependable stars, headlining a series of specials for Showtime and HBO. In 1985, he also developed his first sitcom — It's Garry Shandling's Show — for Showtime. Meta before that concept was commonplace in the comedy world, the series' characters all openly acknowledged being characters in a TV comedy. Even its catchy theme song broke the fourth wall, with self-explanatory lyrics that describe how the tune came into existence: "Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song."
The experimental series was a critical success in the fledgling world of scripted cable, and ran for 72 episodes on Showtime from 1986 to 1990. Fox, meanwhile, aired a toned-down version on Sunday nights from 1988 to 1990, introducing Shandling's comedy style to an even wider audience and setting the stage for his next series, the groundbreaking The Larry Sanders Show on HBO. He also served as a popular awards show host, emceeing the Grammys in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994, and the Emmys in 2000 and 2004. In 1992, Jay Leno was named as retiring Carson's successor. Shandling was reportedly offered CBS' The Late Late Show at the time, but declined. He also turned down a reported $5 million offer to take over from David Letterman after he departed Late Night in1993, choosing instead to work with HBO to develop a backstage series set at a fictional talk show. Larry Sanders premiered in August 1992 and ran through May 1998, totaling 89 half-hour episodes. The darkly comic show, which starred Shandling as a morose talk show host surrounded by a constantly scheming and bickering staff, took full advantage of its behind-the-scenes Hollywood milieu, with stars regularly appearing as parody versions of themselves, years before Entourage traded in the trope. Among them: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Courteney Cox, David Letterman, Chris Farley, Sharon Stone and David Duchovny (who was involved in a running gag in which Sanders thinks Duchovny is trying to seduce him). A pre-Daily Show Jon Stewart was featured on the series as well, playing Sanders' guest host. (Sanders grew jealous and insecure that Stewart was booking higher-profile guests in his absence.) A full list of celebrities who played themselves on the show is available here. Among the standouts on the series, the first cable series to be nominated in major Emmy categories, were Jeffrey Tambor, who played Sanders' desperate-to-be-liked sidekick, Hank Kingsley, and Rip Torn, Larry's "fixer" executive producer, Artie, who keeps his star's many demons at bay while playing staff peacekeeper. The Hollywood Reportersaid in its review: "Despite its generally unsympathetic cast of characters, most of whom seem willing to lie, cheat and steal to achieve their relentlessly greed, superficial goals, the show is a winner because the very funny scripts are so finely tuned that industry-wise viewers will barely have time to catch their breath from one yuk to the next."
Judd Apatow — who cites Shandling as having given him one of his first breaks, writing gags for an award show — also worked as a writing producer on the series, once telling THR, "I learned almost everything I know from Garry." The series won two Emmys for writing and directing for its final episode, and one for Torn in 1996 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. "Today we lost a comedic genius and a very dear friend. Garry entertained millions of people and was an inspiration to generations of comedians, actors and writers. He will be greatly missed," says Steve Mosko, chairman of Sony Pictures Television, the studio that produced and owns The Larry Sanders Show. In the years that followed, Shandling withdrew from the public eye and turned to Buddhism, surfacing occasionally to cameo in mainstream comedy films. In 2015, he sat alongside another comedy legend, Jerry Seinfeld, in a 1979 Porches 930 for Seinfeld's web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The pair, whose careers paralleled closely, reminisced fondly in the episode, unfortunately titled "It's Great That Garry Shandling Is Still Alive." A 2010 profile in GQcalled Shandling "the comedian's comedian's comedian." It described him as being an avid basketball fanatic who hosted game-viewing parties at his Brentwood home that typically turned into matches on his backyard court, where regulars like Duchovny, Sarah Silverman and Peter Berg faced off with the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler. While he never married or had children, his devotion to Buddhism only deepened — a faith whose origins lay in that life-altering car wreck back in 1977 that informed all of his work. "I have this very abstract idea in my head," he said of new comedy material he was working on at the time. "I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience." Shandling continued: "The direction I'm going in is eventually you won't know if it's a joke or not. What I want to happen is that I talk for an hour and the audience doesn't realize it is funny until they're driving home."
Katrina Pierson is national spokesperson for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. The Texan Republican activist has been “linked” to a National Enquirer story regarding alleged extramarital affairs by her boss’s 2016 rival Ted Cruz. Cruz called the article “garbage” and said the “smears are completely false.” Born to a single mother, Pierson was given up for adoption, but her mother later changed her mind. After a rocky start to adulthood, Pierson became active in Republican and Tea Party politics, at one point even gaining the endorsement of Rafael Cruz, Ted’s father. Like Trump, Pierson is known for controversial remarks, including calling the 2012 major party nominees “half-breeds.” Here’s what you need to know:
1. The National Enquirer Included a Pixelated Photo Said to Look Like Her
With the hashtag #CruzSexScandal trending on Twitter, one user noted the similarities between Pierson and a pixelated photo included in the National Enquirer story on Cruz. Right-wing blog Conservative Treehouse ran with the story, saying:
Firstly, they post pictures of the collective mistresses. NE would never legally ‘go there’ if they did not hold a very reasonable certainty the outlined players were factually part of the story. Secondly, there’s at least one face in the group that is easily identifiable. When you accept the NE editorial/legal requirement for research and attributed comment prior to publication, you recognize there is more than a strong probability each of the outlined group (pictured) was contacted prior to publication; and one of those is very close to the Donald Trump campaign. Ergo, it’s entirely likely presidential candidate Donald Trump knew this story was coming out.
Trump memorably threatened to “spill the beans” after a Cruz-affiliated Super PAC used his naked wife in a Facebook campaign. That detail, however, makes things “a little too convenient” for some observers, like the left-leaning blog Crooks and Liars:
The pictures they weakly disguise are pretty easy to match up with people. The image above suggests that Katrina Pierson is one of his so-called mistresses, as well as others. It feels to me like Trump dropped a whole lot of garbage over at the Enquirer to discredit Ted Cruz, and that sense is backed up even more by the fact that one of the lovely ladies is supposedly Donald Trump’s spokeswoman. That’s just a little too convenient.
2. Rafael Cruz, Ted’s Dad, Endorsed Her Senate Run
Ted Cruz and Katrina Pierson during her 2014 Congressional campaign. (Twitter)
In 2014, Katrina Pierson challenged incumbent Republican Representative Pete Sessions’s seat, and was ultimately unsuccessful in garnering the nomination. The primary race was cast as the insurgent Tea Party movement, represented by Pierson, against establishment Republicans, and her two-to-one loss was seen as a serious blow to the movement. She did, however, get key support from future rivals. Rafael Cruz, a Texan preacher and the father of 2016 candidate Ted, endorsed her run, calling her a “strict constitutionalist.” Sessions campaign officials, however, were quick to point out that Rafael’s endorsement did not imply Ted’s. Pierson, however, claimed at the time that the younger Cruz had called her “a fearless, principled conservative.”
3. Her Comments May Have Contributed to Cruz’s Win in Utah
Cruz led the polls for Trump for a long time, and ran away with the caucus, with Trump finishing a distant third. A major contributor was Trump’s high unfavorability among Mormons, who make up a substantial portion of Utah’s population and an even bigger slice of its Republican electorate. Pierson unwittingly aided in this unfavorability with comments in an interview, seen above, in which she defended Trump’s comments about Muslims, in the process conflating fundamentalist LDS sects with the mainstream LDS Church in describing government actions against them:
This is no different than a Christian church, it’s not different than a Mormon church. You’ve had the DOJ investigate Mormon churches and shut them down and Seventh-day Adventist churches.
While local media suggested she may have misspoken, the Salt Lake Tribune quoted Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz criticizing the campaign for not knowing better.
4. She Called Mitt Romney & Barack Obama “Half-Breeds”
In 2012, Pierson called attention to the two major party nominees’ multi-country backgrounds, asking about “pure-breed” candidates:
Pierson received heavy criticism for the comments, with Gawker calling her remarks “menacing” and “eugenical.” Pierson defended herself on CNN, chalking the remarks up to campaign “silliness” and stating that she identifies herself as “half-breed.”
5. She Was Almost Given Up for Adoption at Birth & Arrested at 20
Katrina Pierson with former Vice President nominee Sarah Palin in 2014. (Twitter)
Pierson’s mother became pregnant with her at 15, deciding to give her up for adoption to a Kansas family rather than an abortion, of which Pierson’s grandfather disapproved. While in Kansas, Pierson’s mother changed her mind, bringing the newborn Pierson back to Texas and raising her there. Pierson’s family received government assistance, but she later said her success was in spite of, not because of, government aid. It wouldn’t be Pierson’s only unusual stop on the road to politics. At 20, Pierson and a friend stole $168 worth of clothes from a department store in Plano, Texas. Pierson told police that she hadn’t wanted to go through with it but needed the clothes for jobs she was trying to obtain. She later pleaded no contest, and the case was deferred. She credits the incident with helping her turn her life around.
Dr. Phil McGraw reveals the secret for finally putting an end to the never-ending rollercoaster of failed weight loss attempts with his new diet plan, The 20/20 Diet. In the no-nonsense, get-real style that he’s known for, Dr. Phil brings much-needed truth and reality to the struggle of losing weight. Then, he addresses each of these roadblocks by applying the latest research and theories that have emerged since his last best-seller on the same topic, The Ultimate Weight Solution (Free Press; September, 2003). 
Read an excerpt!
Learn more about The 20/20 Diet app here!
