Author: <span>Eban Goodstein</span>

Jobs Versus the Environment? Video with CEP Director Goodstein

Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein spoke on Climate Change and the Economy: Sorting Fact from Fiction, at Drew University on March 21st. See the talk here. The event was sponsored by the Network for Responsible Public Policy. Scroll down to the video labelled March 21, 2017; the talk begins at …

100%! CEP ’16 Working to Change the Future

We are pleased to report that 100% of the CEP class of 2016 is now employed in the sustainability field or pursuing further graduate study. Here is the list: Kasope Aleshinloye at Babab Gonan (Agricultural social enterprise) in Nigeria Sanaz Arjomand at the American Farmland Trust in DC Karen Baumert …

Asia-Environment Student Research Gathering, Second Annual

April 14-15 2016, forty-five undergraduate and graduate students gathered at Bard to present their research related to Sustainable Development and the environment in Asia. Here are a few photos! ——————–        

Eban’s Annual Ask- Polar Plunge V in support of our graduate students

Dear Friends, Even as we come out of the hottest year ever, nevertheless, it’s a beautiful snowy day here in Annandale, and that means it’s polar plunge time! Please help support our policy graduate students at Bard as they fan out across the world for internships, and start changing the future. For the …

You Need to Cut It: Carbon Emissions Policies

Guest Post by C2C Fellow Courtney Chennault, University of Miami ’18 For the past year O.T. Genasis’ popular and relentless lyrics, “you need to cut it,” have blasted on the radio and transformed into the hashtag that has taken over the Internet.  #CutIt signifies whatever the user deems to be “way …

Sustainability Leadership: Agenda for C2C Fellows Workshop at Bard

Workshop Agenda Bard College 9:00-9:15  C2C Introduction: Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy and Director of Bard’s MBA in Sustainability :: Why are you here? Why now? 9:15-10:00 Ideas Marketplace :: Interested in eradicating Styrofoam from the face of the planet? Starting a clean-tech venture? Are you …

Bard CEP to Lead Micro-Hydro Stakeholder Process

Over the next two years, students and faculty at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy will develop and test a “stakeholder process” to help communities and landholders evaluate the potential for micro-hydro installations. The initiative is part of a broader research focus at Bard on micro-hydro potential in New York …

Politics & Environment: Non-Partisan Talks Coming Your Way

This coming fall, the election will be a front and center issue—including for sustainability and environmental educators. How can we engage our students to think critically about politics and the environment, in a non-partisan fashion that is consistent with our work as educators? A key answer is to provide historical …

On Crossing The Big Four O (O)

1963.  I am three years old. My older sister, seven, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit integrating our grade school in south central Tennessee.  There are three billion people in the world. One of them is named Chung Chungin. She is six and lives in Seoul, Korea.  The atmosphere holds …

Sustainability Policy Careers: Changing the Rules of the Game

By Eban Goodstein. Reposted from Greenbiz.com on Oct 23, 2012 Are you (1) a patient leader and a systems thinker? Or (2) an impatient leader who likes to build things? When I counsel students interested in careers in sustainability, I direct them down two paths: policy and business. A policy …