Gregory McAuliffe San Martín has deemed itself the Región Verde (Green Region) of Peru, and it is hard to challenge the name. Everywhere you travel in San Martín, you see the dense green vegetation of the alta selva, or high jungle. The landscape is littered with high mountains covered to …
By Dr. Jennifer Phillips Over the coming decades, climate change will challenge regional, national, and global economies. Some regions of the world will see agricultural productivity drop by 50% by 2080, while regions will experience increased productivity. Part of the adaptation process will be to build resilience into …
By Karen Corey Love Canal. Chernobyl. Bhopal. Three Mile Island. Deepwater Horizon. Fukushima. Each of these is a place that has become synonymous with environmental disaster, provoking environmental regulation and concerns about large-scale environmental devastation. Few people argue with the necessity of investing money to rehabilitate Superfund sites or radiation-contaminated zones. But long-term, chronic environmental …
Greenhouse Gases and Co-Pollutants: A Juggling Act By: Jada Garofalo, Ceyda Durmaz, and Alan Kroeger Monitoring more pollutants than merely carbon? This sounds like more work, right? Not according to James Boyce and Manuel Pastor. James Boyce, featured this past Wednesday in the last National Climate Seminar of the academic …
by Maxine Segarnick As the world’s population continues to expand over the next century, so will the need for energy production. The energy sources used predominantly around the world include coal, oil, and natural gas, all of which emit large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants when …
Since its founding, the US has seen its population steadily move from rural to urban environments: the 1790 US Census reported a 95% rural to 5% urban ratio, the 1890 US Census a 28% to 72% ratio, the 2010 US Census a 20% to 80% ratio. While urbanization has produced large-scale economic and …
By Justine Schwartz How do you engage evangelical Christians—a group of people most commonly associated with denying the science of evolution and climate change—in the environmental movement? The answer lies in a growing, faith-based environmental movement called Creation Care. In February 2006, an ad signed by 86 prominent evangelical leaders …
By Lauren Frisch and Danielle Bissett, Bard CEP MS ’14 On March 6, 2013 the National Climate Seminar hosted a conversation on “After Sandy, What’s Next?” with Brenda Ekwurzel, a Climate Scientist and Assistant Director of Climate Research and Analysis at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Using Hurricane Sandy as a …
On February 25, 2013, I joined Bard students, faculty, staff, and community members packed into Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center to view Deborah Koons Garcia’s documentary Symphony of the Soil. Here is my review. I’ve essentially lost faith in food system and agriculture-related documentaries. More often than not, the dramatic …
By Rochelle March and Serena McIntosh We waited apprehensively for Mike Tidwell, this week’s NCS speaker, to answer the phone. After 5 long minutes, he finally picked up and explained the reason for his tardiness. That day—at that exact moment—the Maryland General Assembly had been debating the proposal of Maryland’s …
