By Oliver Peckham Daniel Lashof, Director of the Climate & Clean Air Program at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spoke at the National Climate Seminar on February 6th. Mr. Lashof – who has been involved in national climate negotiations since their inception – joined the Seminar to speak about …
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 …
Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon eastern to hear climate and clean energy specialists talk about the latest climate change issues. These public conference calls are a great chance to connect with top scientists, analysts and political leaders discuss climate and clean energy solutions. …
Reposted from Science Progress: where science, technology, and policy meet A survey of beliefs about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas By Jordan Kincaid, MS’13, and Adam Briggle To take the survey of beliefs on fracking and technology beliefs, click here. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for natural gas has become a lightning rod in …
By Megan McClellan MS‘14 and Danielle Salisbury MS/MI‘16 Did you have orange juice or coffee with breakfast this morning? If you did, your breakfast probably depended on an insect to pollinate those plants that grew the fruit and beans that you so deliciously enjoyed. But what if you had to hand …
By Dunja Drmac ’14 Kim Knowlton, a Senior Scientist at the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and an author of a report on health costs caused by climate change events in the United States, spoke at the National Climate Seminar on November 21st. The topics discussed included the health costs, …
By Lauren Hubbell ’14 and Danny Lapin ‘14 Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Research Fellow at Resources for the Future The Clean Air Act is vibrant and alive, even as its milestone provisions are decades old. Its regulatory clout is still felt across the political frontier of the nation. …
by Nadia Steinzor ’04 MS (Also see Nadia and her organization, Earthworks, featured in Huffington Post.) New York remains at a decision crossroads when it comes to developing its shale gas resources, widely known as fracking. Thanks to growing opposition and the state’s environmental review process, New York hasn’t rushed forward …
By Alicia Caruso ’14 and Sara DiNovi ’14 The National Climate Seminar recently hosted Jeremy Osborn, the Director of Operations at 350.org, an environmental advocacy group focused on building grassroots movements for environmental initiatives, namely climate change, worldwide. 350 is both a number (350 ppm) and a symbol. It stands …