Dear Friends, We are circulating this call to participate in the national Power Dialog in April 2016. Help support 10,000 students to engage in face-to-face dialog with state-level regulators in all fifty states. The topic? Implementing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. How will it work? Hundreds of faculty nationwide will take their …
Beyond Toledo: Toxic Water in a Hotter World By: Karen Baumert In August 2014, Toledo, Ohio’s tap water became undrinkable, leaving about 500,000 people without water. The cause: a toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie near Toledo’s water intake. To talk about how global climate change affects the occurrence …
Keystone XL and divestment: Building an effective climate campaign by: Brett Sykes Recently, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s national climate seminar series hosted divestment campaign manager Jay Carmona and digital campaigner Duncan Meisel to talk about 350.org’s ongoing effort to fight global warming. Together 350.org’s national divestment campaign …
Innovation: The Power of Gender Equality in Environmental Sustainability By Sara Gendel, MS ‘15 Climate change affects everyone, even though the stakes are unequal across societal groups such as region, class, and gender. This inequality creates unsustainable economies, societies, political structures, and environmental management, especially for those living in …
Melting Arctic Ice and Methane Gas Bubbles: Is this the final countdown to global warming? By: Shelly John and Meredith Murray This week on National Climate Seminar (NCS) at Bard Center for Environmental Policy, we spoke with David Archer, a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department …
A Tip of the Hat to California’s Cap By: Anne Lapera In 2013 California initiated its groundbreaking cap and trade system as one mechanism to mitigate greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions produced in the state. Despite predictions by opponents of the cap and trade system and the broader California Global …
Desalination as Adaptation: Energy Intensive, but Sometimes Necessary By Suolang Dongcuo, MS’15, and Emily McCarthy, MS’15 In different areas around the globe, increased population growth and intensive use of water in both agriculture and industry sectors have exacerbated the problem of lack of access to clean water. The UN …
Originally posted on: http://ecoaffect.org FEBRUARY 10, 2014 BY CAROLINE HODGE Debbie Dooley isn’t your typical Tea Party leader. She’s a Georgia grandmother who became an activist six years ago when her first grandson was born. Dooley is co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots, and has been active with the Tea Party …
Green Tea, Georgia Style A New Brew of Bipartisanship By Andrew Bonanno MS’15 and Jeremy Cherson MS’15 It’s election season 2012 and Colleen Kiernan, chapter director of the Georgia Sierra Club, is battling a bill that would limit the right to protest in the Peach State. A broad coalition …
Natural Gas: Not So Fracking Clean By Jessica Schug MS ’15, Judson Peck MS ’15, Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva MS ’15 Natural gas is promoted as a clean energy alternative to fossil fuel, providing energy that will reduce both global warming and the United State’s dependence on foreign oil. After being approached by …
