At Bard College’s conference on Water, Forests, and Communities in Asia, we welcomed speakers from three Asian countries. Over the span of three days, from January 31 to February 2, each of them presented topics to the audience on an interesting and wide array of topics. …
Lauren Hubbel, Bard CEP MS ’14 Candidate by Lauren Hubbel, Bard CEP MS ’14 Candidate The National Council for Science and the Environment’s 13th annual conference, held in the prominent Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., was the largest I have ever attended. The climate was …
I spent the majority of my five months interning at Development Alternatives (DA) working on two climate adaptation related projects based in the Bundelkhand region of India. One project, a collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, I discussed in a previous CEP Blog entry. In short, the …
Reposted from Clean Edison Blog What the Green Building Industry Can Learn From Motorola By Comly Wilson, 2011 C2C Fellow Whether driven by a genuine desire to reduce their environmental footprint, or simply to insulate themselves against rising costs, energy efficiency is becoming a significant organizational goal for many companies …
After seven months of interning at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in their New York City office, I left not only feeling confident that I obtained a new set of professional skills and connections, but also that I took my first step towards impacting state energy policy. The internship started …
The past few months have been quite exciting. Not only did I have have an amazing internship experience at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), but I was fortunate enough to be hired for a full-time position. The full-time position directly relates to work that I did …
Arriving Our group of Peace Corps (P.C.) Volunteers arrived in Cameroon on September 21st, 2012, coinciding with 50 years of P.C. partnership between the U.S. and Cameroon. Subsequently, our swearing-in ceremony as P.C. volunteers was an impressive event located in the “Palais de Congrès” in Yaoundé (the capital of the …
Potential for Green Technologies in Different Fields Posted on January 14, 2013 by Maggie Yayac As part of my master’s degree at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, I worked for Global Future Solutions (GFS) as an environmental consultant from June to November 2012. GFS researches green chemistry solutions for the oil and gas, bio-remediation, …
“We’re getting rowdy!” – Rob Friedman In December, government and citizen representatives from 190 countries around the world met in Doha, Qatar to create an international agreement on climate change action following the end of the Kyoto Protocol. The outcome of Doha was predictable in the lack of …
The past seven months at Group Mackenzie has truly been a great learning experience. The company has invested in profitable projects since the economic downturn, allowing me to accrue quite the repertoire of projects this year. At any given time during the past few months I have been working on …