PRB Video Presentation. Meet Jonathan Foley, 'Climate Pragmatist' Foley 2011 - solutions for a cultivated planet. Www.cce.umn.edu/media/headliners/foley/foley.mp3. TEDxTC - Jonathan Foley - The Other Inconvenient Truth. People | About Us | Institute on the Environment. Institute on the Environment 612-626-3749 jfoley@umn.edu Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota, where he is also a professor and McKnight Presidential Chair of Global Environment and Sustainability. Foley's work focuses on the sustainability of our planet and the natural resources we depend on.
He and his students have contributed to our understanding of global food security, worldwide changes in ecosystems, land use and climate, and the sustainability of our planetary resources. This work has led him to be a regular advisor to governments, non-governmental organizations, and large corporations around the world. Foley joined the University of Minnesota in 2008 after spending 15 years on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, where he founded the Climate, People and Environment Program (CPEP) and the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE). Jonathan Foley (globalecoguy) Www.geog.psu.edu/sites/default/files/Scientific American Article.pdf.