Michael F. Maniates

Michael Maniates is a Senior Fellow at the Story of Stuff, an environmental organization that focuses on sustainable consumption and system transformation. From 2013 to 2025, he served as Professor of Social Science and the Inaugural Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, among the first liberal arts colleges in Asia. Along the way he’s cofounded two environmental organizations, taught repeatedly aboard a floating university, lived in India for a couple of years as a Fulbright scholar, launched two undergraduate environmental studies programs at top ranked liberal arts colleges and retooled a third, and helped run for 15 years the world's highest volume frozen yogurt shop. He can still fill cups and cones with the best of 'em. For more on that frozen yogurt shop (still going strong!), and for other juicy tidbits, type "michaelmaniates" into your browser and click on the link to his personal website.