Innovation: The Power of Gender Equality in Environmental Sustainability By Sara Gendel, MS ‘15 Climate change affects everyone, even though the stakes are unequal across societal groups such as region, class, and gender. This inequality creates unsustainable economies, societies, political structures, and environmental management, especially for those living in …
Melting Arctic Ice and Methane Gas Bubbles: Is this the final countdown to global warming? By: Shelly John and Meredith Murray This week on National Climate Seminar (NCS) at Bard Center for Environmental Policy, we spoke with David Archer, a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department …
A Tip of the Hat to California’s Cap By: Anne Lapera In 2013 California initiated its groundbreaking cap and trade system as one mechanism to mitigate greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions produced in the state. Despite predictions by opponents of the cap and trade system and the broader California Global …
Desalination as Adaptation: Energy Intensive, but Sometimes Necessary By Suolang Dongcuo, MS’15, and Emily McCarthy, MS’15 In different areas around the globe, increased population growth and intensive use of water in both agriculture and industry sectors have exacerbated the problem of lack of access to clean water. The UN …
Green Tea, Georgia Style A New Brew of Bipartisanship By Andrew Bonanno MS’15 and Jeremy Cherson MS’15 It’s election season 2012 and Colleen Kiernan, chapter director of the Georgia Sierra Club, is battling a bill that would limit the right to protest in the Peach State. A broad coalition …
By Molly Williams M.S. ’08, Assistant Director of Admission and Public Programs At the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, twenty-seven second year students are hard at work on Master’s theses, ranging from landfill gas capture for the NYC transit fleet to water quality management on Wuxi lake in northeast China. …
By Molly Williams, MS ’08, Graduate Admissions and Public Programs Select students in Bard CEP master’s programs are chosen each year to work directly with faculty and staff on research projects and public programs. The graduate assistantship positions Bard offers vary in scope and responsibility, but all of them come …
Future Economies Project, Starting Now by: Eban Goodstein, Bard Center for Environmental Policy Director Reposted from the Economics for Equity & Environment Initiative on November 12, 2013. Back in 2009, I had the chance to interview two Oregon policy experts about the emergent green economy in that state. The interview is …
Reposted from Huffington Post, originally published 10/10/13 By Karen Corey, MSEP/MI ’13, Program Assistant for Forest Trends Four years ago, Kenyan farmer Chege Mwangi was a desperate man. Climate change had thrown off the timing of his harvests, and torrential rains were washing his topsoil into Lake Naivasha — where flower-growers were suffering, …
The beginning of the semester is, for me, always a time for reflection on my purpose on the planet. Witnessing local communities in collapse—from Syria to Detroit— it can be hard to hang on to Dr. King’s vision of a moral arc of the universe that bends, eventually, towards justice. …
