Crossposted from adjunct faculty member Dr. Eleanor Sterling’s NYTimes “Scientist at Work” blog I often wonder what life was like for military personnel who served on Palmyra Atoll during World War II. We see ghosts of their activities — whether abandoned buildings and ancient, odd-shaped light bulbs or structural changes …
CEP Professor Gautam Sethi just won an ARES 2010 award for Real Estate Sustainability sponsored by the NAIOP Research Foundation. Congratulations! The paper is titled, “Wind Energy Facilities and Residential Properties: The Effect of Proximity and View on Sales Prices” Authors of the Paper: Ben Hoen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley …
(cross-posted from Dr. Sterling’s “Scientist at Work” blog from the New York Times) photo credit Kevin Frey This morning I woke up to a huge splash just offshore. I don’t even look any more as I know it is a large predator, either a jack or a shark, feeding in …
Professor Ranville passed along an article detailing a bit of her summer vacation: On an oven-hot afternoon this past Saturday, more than 250 people descended on an outdoor pavilion displaying 85 sculptures on tabletops in the Hudson Valley village of Tivoli, NY. They came first to view the sculptures–each one …
Dear friends and colleagues, Amidst the wreckage of climate legislation in DC, one thing is clear. This is not the fight of a day, of a year or of a decade. Even had the Senate acted, changing the future would still have required a vibrant, engaged global grassroots movement, pushing …
Over the last decade, and building especially through Obama’s election, the power of grassroots pressure for clean energy almost got the country past gridlock in D.C.. But now, through media meltdowns around hackergate and “global cooling”, Ted Kennedy’s death and the collapse of the Democratic super-majority, the failure of the …
Professors Gautam Sethi just returned from a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Here is a report from Professor Sethi about the nature of his trip: My goals to visit Oaxaca were two-fold: 1. To better understand the nature of the water problem and its resolution, as viewed by INSO 2. To …
Bard CEP Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Dr. Mara Ranville, attended an international conference on “Climate Change Curricula in Higher Education” from June 7-9, 2010, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference was intended to establish new international collaborations in climate change education; foster international comparisons and exchanges of curricula and pedagogical …