Reposted from Grist By Eban Goodstein “A cross between paradise and paradise.” This is how Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives describes his nation in Jon Shenk’s powerful new film, The Island President. Shenk follows President Nasheed over a one-year period, leading up to the Copenhagen climate summit, in a beautiful, courageous, and …
C2C Fellows recently held its second regional training workshop at the University of Georgia-Athens. Over twenty students from around the Southeast convened for the weekend to critically examine and refine the skills they will need to lead their generation to a sustainable future. The workshop began on Friday evening with …
Written by: Nicholas Martin (CSP ’13) and Justin Wexler (EP/MAT ’13) Reposted from: The Poughkeepsie Journal An ancient environmental technology is making a comeback. Five centuries ago, Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana reported vast areas of indigenous settlement and cultivation along the Amazon River. Surprisingly, the incredibly rich and productive …
The Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosts a bi-monthly National Climate Seminar linking together educators, students and interested citizens with top climate scientists, leaders and analysts. On February 15, Director Eban Goodstein, along with graduate students from Bard CEP and members of the public, held a national conversation with Anthony …
*Note: On February 7, 2012 President Nasheed was forced out of office under military pressure. Sign the petition circulated by 350.org, calling for the protection of President Nasheed. Also, see a short documentary, “The Island President Deposed,” by filmmaker Jon Shenk in the NYTimes this week. The Spring 2012 National …
My internship with Grow Food Northampton (GFN) involved working on numerous and varied projects, ranging from food access, community outreach, an agricultural economics report, a local foods assessment survey, and a community garden committee. I felt that my work at GFN often related closely to my first year studies at …
The Fall 2011 National Climate Seminar series hosted by Bard CEP wrapped up yesterday with Mark Hertsgaard, author of “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.” The conversation encompassed the relevance of the Occupy Wallstreet protests to climate change initiatives, the UN climate change conference in Durban, and the …
BardCEP graduate students and Director Goodstein spoke with Seb Henbest this past week, manager of Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s operations in Australia, as part of the ongoing National Climate Seminar series. Mr. Henbest has been working for BNEF since 2008 leading the company’s analysis on the carbon markets in the …
Bard CEP first year graduate students attended NYSERDA‘s Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection in New York: “Linking Science and Policy” conference in Albany yesterday. It was a jam-packed day of presentations, discussion and networking covering a range of topics such as alternative energy technologies, modeling/mapping tools, biomass heating and natural gas …
For anyone looking for a crash course on how CO2 controls the climate, there is no better teacher than Dr. Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the EMS Environment Institute at Penn State University. Alley, who has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been called …