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 …
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 …