My Time in Japan
Matthew Sprague, Junior and EUS major at Bard College When I found out earlier this year that I had received a grant to travel to Japan and work on organic farms I was elated. I never thought that I would be able to see this …
Following the Tea Horse Road: Trade, Tourism and Conservation in Yunnan Province
Monique Segarra, Assistant Professor Bard Center for Environmental Policy With the generous support of the Luce Foundation Asia and the Environment grant to Bard College, I spent two weeks this July in Yunnan Province, located in Southwestern China. Traveling with my colleague, Dr. Bruce Robertson, we designed a trip that …
Trip to Japan: My Experience with LIASE
Ivan Glinski, Economics & Asian Studies student at Bard This summer, I spent four weeks in the often grueling heat of the Kantō region in Japan, working on an organic farm. Six days a week I would get driven in the morning to a rice field, which I would help weed together …
Local Livelihoods and Environmental Conservation in Southern China
Bruce Robertson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College In July, 2016, I traveled to Yunnan Province, China with my colleague Monique Segarra with the goal of better understanding the socio-economic and political environment shaping the conservation of ecosystems and natural resources in the region. Our central goal was to use …
Collaborative Climate Education, Student Voices, and State Policy: Reflections on Power Dialog 2016
The week of April 4th, 2016, over a thousand of students from more than fifty colleges and universities in twenty state capitals participated in Power Dialog forums with state officials and other experts. The focus: state policy efforts to cut global warming pollution, and support the US commitment to reduce …
Bard College Students Organize Nationwide Dialog on Climate: Students in 20 States to Talk with Policy-Makers
For the last nine months, four students at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley have been meeting in a basement office on campus. Their mission: to catalyze a nationwide conversation about state-level action on climate change. Undergraduates Xaver Kandler and Maggie Berke, and environmental policy graduate students Meredith Lavalley and …
Hearing the Student Voice on Clean Energy: Nationwide Dialogs Focus on State Climate Action
By Eban Goodstein Becca Krasky is a first year student at Macalester College in Minnesota. If someday she has kids, they will be college-age around the year 2045. She will be in her late 40’s. And by that year, we will know the future of the earth. We will know …
Power Dialog to discuss implementation of the Clean Power Plan in PA
The national initiative pairs college students from across the state with key decision makers and legislators Penn State faculty and students from University Park are collaborating with several other Pennsylvania institutions and the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) on the PA Power Dialog — one of 30 Power …
Energy, Climate, and Citizenship Education: An Interview with Eban Goodstein
On Monday April 4th, thousands of college and university students will be participating in the Power Dialog. Students and supporting faculty will engage in face-to-face dialogs with top environmental and energy officials in dozens of states. The topic? State-level action to help meet the US climate commitment of 30% cuts in …
A Climate Resolution for the New Year
Know a college student or a teacher? Then you can help 10,000 students around the country, and hundreds in your own state, change their future. The week of April 4, 2016 The Power Dialog is organizing conversations in every state capitol between students and the top regulators in their state charged with …