Reposted from Huffington Post, originally published 10/10/13 By Karen Corey, MSEP/MI ’13, Program Assistant for Forest Trends Four years ago, Kenyan farmer Chege Mwangi was a desperate man. Climate change had thrown off the timing of his harvests, and torrential rains were washing his topsoil into Lake Naivasha — where flower-growers were suffering, …
By Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva and Izabel Hoyos Ever wonder what your life would be like if you had water once a week? What solutions would you adopt to help your community? (Previous CEP Students in Oaxaca) At the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) students have the opportunity to address …
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 …
Reposted from Grist By Lindsey Lusher Shute, CEP Alumna ’07 By the time the next Farm Bill expires in five years, 125,000 American farmers will have retired. This fact may well be the biggest threat to national food security, but you wouldn’t know it if you’ve been following this year’s …
Reposted from greenbiz.com Written by Lisa Jaccoma, Bard CEP alumna ’10 From a marketing and communications standpoint, 2011 should have been a wake-up call for the cleantech industry in the U.S. We are getting our collective butts kicked in the national conversation. Yes, individual companies did well. Enough good to …
Lindsey Lusher Shute, MS ’07, was interviewed for a piece on young farmers the New York Times. See related post on NPR’s Food Blog, the salt and listen to the story on All Things Considered. Reposted from the New York Times. By Isolde Raftery Published: November 12, 2011 Emily Oakley, …
Bard CEP Graduate, Jake Claro, cited in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/05/the-farmers-market-myth/238661/ Bard Fiction Prize winner Karen Russell on PBS: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/05/conversation-karen-russell-author-of-swamplandia.html Bradford Morrow on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/02/133811309/return-to-the-prairie-to-revisit-my-antonia Bard in New Orleans: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2011/05/bard_college_program_brings_un.html Bard Prision Initiative in the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704740604576301404105030510.html Walter Russell Mead on Pakistan: http://www.businessinsider.com/high-noon-in-pakistan-2011-5 Mark Lytle in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-03-bin-Laden-Clinton-war-terror_n.htm Sanjib Baruah …
Article cites Bard’s commitment to geothermal energy use: http://westfaironline.com/2011/12403-geothermal-gains-momentum/ The Los Angeles Times interviews Bard faculty Kelly Reichardt on her new film: http://www.kspr.com/la-ca-kelly-reichardt-20110417,0,5004622.story Soprano Dawn Upshaw shares NY Times spotlight with Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts students: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/arts/music/dawn-upshaw-and-students-at-zankel-hall-review.html The Saratogian cites alum Pia Carusone: http://saratogian.com/articles/2011/04/16/news/doc4daa56ada04ed701944663.txt The Kingston Times praises Bard’s “Math …
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 …
Did you know that Red Hook, the town in which Bard is located, has a Conservation Advisory Council? The CAC was established in 1976 after the Town Board recognized that “establishment of a Conservation Advisory Council is a necessary step in fostering unified action on environmental problems.” Molly Williams, Bard …