From the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted Dec. 14 2010 For the last month and a half I have been living in Fusi, while Karen was in Tafitoala. Both of these villages are in the Safata district on the south side of Upolu. I lived in a traditional …
This week the journal Nature published a new study on biodiversity and human disease, whose lead author is Bard’s own Felicia Keesing. This important study has received international attention and press. The New York Times mentioned described this study in an article on Dec. 2nd in the article “As Biodiversity …
By Eban Goodstein The elections this month saw the breaching of the 2016 deadline set by NASA’s Jim Hansen for global CO2 stabilization, and also moved us well beyond IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pauchuari’s statement that action beyond 2012 “will be too late”. So where does this leave us? For what …
Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein participated in a press conference announcing a major new green initiative by General Motors. Chevy’s $40 million project aims to reduce 8 million metric tons of carbon over the next few years through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in communities across the country. Below are …
Water Stories from Oaxaca, México I know that I should have posted something earlier to this blog, in order to represent the international internship experience, but this way at least I have a larger perspective of the time here. I won’t summarize the whole Oaxaca program here, which is an …
October 29, 2010 Hey Folks, Greetings from the District! I’ve been down here at my internship now for the past two months and I am approximately half way done. The organization I’m working at is the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (http://www.sportsmenslink.org/). CSF is the leading hunting and fishing policy organization in …
Cross Posted from Karen and Dave in Samoa on October 14, 2010 Samoa: A Pacific Paradise Since we have arrived in Samoa, we have had a full day at the beach, another day snorkeling off of a catamaran in a coral lagoon, learned a healthy dose of common phrases, and met …
Bard President LEON BOTSTEIN appears on THE COLBERT REPORT on October 5, 2010 To view the interview, click here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361087/october-05-2010/leon-botstein
Last month we posted CEP adjunct professor Dr. Eleanor Sterling’s article on NYTimes.com’s “Scientists at Work” blog about her work in the isolated Northern Pacific atoll (a special kind of island) called Palmyra Atoll. A Q&A was recently posted on their blog, in which she answers readers’ questions about sea …
As I sit here reading an article about the different kinds of coal-coking ovens I am reminded that more often than not, the things we shy away from the most, always find a way to become present, almost taking over some aspect of our lives. I am being forced to …