As part of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s (CEP) Master’s program, we students are required to do a 4 to 6-month internship at an organization related to environmental or climate science and policy. This internship gives us the opportunity to apply what we’ve learned in our first-year coursework and …
For the past several decades the US has pursued policies that promote energy independence and both energy and national security. As part of this pursuit, high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technologies were first developed in the late 1940s by Halliburton, and its technological advances after the 1970s have rapidly increased oil …
Maple syrup is more than a sweet treat: to the sugarmakers of the Northeast, it’s a way of life. The tradition of maple sugaring has roots in indigenous culture and the sweet sap continues as a multi-million dollar industry today. But this year’s warm winter and early spring made Vermont’s …
By Eban Goodstein Becca Krasky is a first year student at Macalester College in Minnesota. If someday she has kids, they will be college-age around the year 2045. She will be in her late 40’s. And by that year, we will know the future of the earth. We will know …
On Monday November 16th we had our 2nd conference call for Power Dialog 2016 organizers and participants. With 35 people (an exciting increase) on the call, there was plenty of questions and a robust discussion. Interested parties from Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington DC, Texas, Michigan, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, …
The Power Dialog is a powerful idea, not just because it sends a message that the issue of climate change is important, but also because it involves citizen-students engaging with government officials. The fact that we live in a democracy makes this possible and if it is done well, the …
Our first organizing call is at noon eastern time on Monday, November the 16th. The Power Dialog has organizing teams forming in about 25 states— and this will be the first chance to bring everyone together for an update and conversation about how the project is playing out on the …
Written by Hayden Zahn Something that has stuck with me since returning home is the way in which three of the places we visited have dealt with disaster. While Onagawa and Ishinomaki are linked by the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami that struck the coast of the Tōhoku region, their responses …
Written by Alex Benson I approached the Luce field experience in Japan in the summer of 2015 with questions about culture and conservation, questions informed by my background as a scholar and teacher of American literature. More specifically I’d been puzzling through two strange claims advanced by Ishmael, the …
On April 4th, 2016, The Power Dialog will support 10,000 students across the nation to engage in face-to-face dialog with top state official in their state capitols. The topic? Cutting global warming pollution 32% by 2030. How does it work? Students work with faculty to take their classes—hundreds of classes …
