As part of my graduate school requirements at Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, I have the opportunity to intern with an organization that works on environmental policy. Given my interest in regional clean energy development, I am fortunate to be interning with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) …
Excerpted from the Spring 2015 issue of The Bardian. Since its founding in 1999, Bard CEP has promoted a science- based, holistic approach to environmental policy. Through a combination of theoretical study and empirical work, Bard CEP graduate students gain a deep firsthand understanding of how numerous academic disciplines …
Bard graduate students will be helping companies and colleges save money and slow down global warming this summer. The Environmental Defense Fund has selected two students from the MS programs in Environmental Policy and two MBA in Sustainability students as Climate Corps Fellows. They will be embedded in leading organizations nationwide, providing expert hands-on support to manage …
As my experience at Turtle Island Restoration Network came to a close, I was able to reflect on the skilled I used as well as gained in and outside of the internship. The Internship Research, Scientific Understanding, and Science Communication Skills For my first month I was given a …
Scenic Hudson (SH), the environmental advocacy and land conservation organization based in Poughkeepsie, NY, has a history that reaches back to the beginning of the modern environmental movement when, in the 1963, a group of concerned Hudson Valley (HV) residents banded together to challenge the Federal Power Authority’s approval of …
TIME’S UP: Direct Action Environmental Change For over 28 years, TIME’S UP has been working to create a safer, greener, more sustainable New York City. TIME’S UP! is a New York City-based not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that promotes events and educational programs to create a more sustainable, less toxic city. Time’s …
Since August 2014, I have been an intern with Courtney Strong, Inc., utilizing a number of skills from undergraduate school, graduate school at Bard CEP, and gaining new skills on the job. The Internship Courtney Strong, Inc., is a marketing communications firm based in Kingston, NY, and Washington, D.C. Since …
Earlier today, I was standing on top of the former Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill, which is now a superfund site. Capped and controlled since 2000, now it looks more like a big grassy hill with intermittent monitoring wells sticking out of it. The company I am interning for, Keramida, Inc., has …
Getting Milk? I don’t cry over spilled milk, but I’m not ashamed to admit that trying to navigating my way to the milk isle during peak shopping hours brings me awfully close to tears. Especially right before a snowstorm. It’s not an ordeal I take up willingly, but today we …
By Judson Peck, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 Tedious, frustrating weeks of trial and error to manipulate code for statistical software describes my first project for UNDP that resulted in an impressive win for my boss. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of the Climate Change Adaptation Team, overseas all ongoing UNDP-GEF funded climate change …
