By: Kasope Aleshinloye This blog is cross-posted from The City Fix. View the original article here. Kasope Aleshinloye is a first-year graduate student at Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP). Lagos – the largest city and commercial capital of Nigeria – has traditionally struggled with a lack of reliable mass …
Thomas Edison established the first direct current power system in 1882. It distributed electricity to 59 customers on Wall Street in New York City. Today, the electric grid includes more than 6 million miles of transmission and distribution lines designed primarily with centralized controls, supplying over 143 million residential, commercial, …
Life Cycle Assessment A Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an attempt to evaluate all environmental impacts associated with a product, process, or activity. This includes considering impacts at all stages of the product, including raw material extraction, production, product use, and disposal/reuse. A LCA can be particularly important when dealing with …
Beyond Toledo: Toxic Water in a Hotter World By: Karen Baumert In August 2014, Toledo, Ohio’s tap water became undrinkable, leaving about 500,000 people without water. The cause: a toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie near Toledo’s water intake. To talk about how global climate change affects the occurrence …
By Judson Peck, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 “Mitigating and adapting to climate change is entirely compatible with pursuing development.” – Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator UNDP and Climate Change Efforts to tackle climate change have largely been focused on isolated, distinct, and often competing goals and actions on mitigation (lowering emissions) or adaptation …
Cross-posted from Blog.GLEON. Recent Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) graduate Alicia Caruso delved deeply into the uses of GLEON data and found that high-frequency buoy data is being shared widely, and a new collaboration with database managers may improve data accessibility to promote greater collaborations with a broader audience …
Written by Suolang Dongcuo (Master’s in Environmental Policy Candidate 2015) After finishing the first year of my master’s degree at Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy, I decided to go back to Tibet where my knowledge is mostly needed. After a long and tedious search and application process, I …
Featured on the homepage of the New York Times 410,000 peaceful protesters descended on New York City to demand world action on climate change as part of the People’s Climate March. Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability, including the MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy, were there to proudly support the March. Bard MBA students also interviewed marchers …
By: Molly Gilligan, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 IUCN Global Gender Office IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, is the world’s oldest and largest international environmental organization. IUCN is a member organization with members such as national governments, departments and ministries, non-governmental organizations, and citizen groups. With headquarters in …
A typical picture of a forest is one full of lush, green landscapes, never ending rows of trees, and wildlife only found in wooded areas. Well, the forest I am working in this summer is full of people, buildings, and roadways. Trees have existed in cities for centuries, and it …
