The Bard CEP Eco Reader

Leadership in Vermont’s Sustainable Food Movement

By Judson Peck, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 Leaders are committed individuals who educate and inspire us to collectively take action to make change. What characteristics define leaders and what skills and strategies do they employ to motivate us to take action? I explored the answers to these and other questions by …

Bard CEP Grads Find Internships Key to Success

Excerpted from the Spring 2015 issue of The Bardian.   Since its founding in 1999, Bard CEP has promoted a science- based, holistic approach to environmental policy. Through a combination of theoretical study and empirical work, Bard CEP graduate students gain a deep firsthand understanding of how numerous academic disciplines …

Catalyzing Mobility in Lagos: BRT and other Public Transit Developments

Originally published on April 29th via CoLab Radio. During winter break of my senior year, I spent several weeks at home in Lagos doing fieldwork for my thesis on the challenges and opportunities in the waste management sector. Most of the time, I relied on public transportation to get around. …

Four Bard Graduate Students Join EDF’s Climate Corps

Bard graduate students will be helping companies and colleges save money and slow down global warming this summer.  The Environmental Defense Fund has selected two students from the MS programs in Environmental Policy and two MBA in Sustainability students as Climate Corps Fellows. They will be embedded in leading organizations nationwide, providing expert hands-on support to manage …

Bard CEP Hosts Student Research Conference on Asia and the Environment

Today it is impossible to think seriously about the challenges of sustainable development and the environment without understanding the local and global environmental footprint of rapid economic growth in Asia—and the Asian response. At the same time, Asian Studies students increasingly require familiarity with the scientific, cultural and political dimensions …

One in Seven: An Essay

by C2C Fellow Shayna Koczur I am one in seven billion order essay, and on a geological timescale, I will be here for a second. If I am so small in the grand scheme of our planet, if I am only a tick of a clock, then the idea of  …

Closing Time: California Chapter

As my experience at Turtle Island Restoration Network came to a close, I was able to reflect on the skilled I used as well as gained in and outside of the internship.   The Internship Research, Scientific Understanding, and Science Communication Skills For my first month I was given a …

Advancing the Hudson Valley’s Regional Foodshed

Scenic Hudson (SH), the environmental advocacy and land conservation organization based in Poughkeepsie, NY, has a history that reaches back to the beginning of the modern environmental movement when, in the 1963, a group of concerned Hudson Valley (HV) residents banded together to challenge the Federal Power Authority’s approval of …

Together We Are The Change We Wish to See

TIME’S UP: Direct Action Environmental Change  For over 28 years, TIME’S UP has been working to create a safer, greener, more sustainable New York City. TIME’S UP! is a New York City-based not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that promotes events and educational programs to create a more sustainable, less toxic city. Time’s …

Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) Post Panel Reflections

Written by Kale Roberts MS ’16 Bard Center for Environmental Policy Just sharing NY energy news, particularly about solar. Following last week’s whirlwind panel discussion about REV’s goals and utility/service provider/regulator restructuring, I remained a bit mystified about what concretely is going on in New York. For fun, here are …