It’s been four months since I first stepped foot in Washington D.C. to embark on my summer internship with the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), and my time here has been nothing short of eye opening. I’ve learned numerous lessons over the course of the summer, but there is one that …
Reposted from Huffington Post, originally published 10/10/13 By Karen Corey, MSEP/MI ’13, Program Assistant for Forest Trends Four years ago, Kenyan farmer Chege Mwangi was a desperate man. Climate change had thrown off the timing of his harvests, and torrential rains were washing his topsoil into Lake Naivasha — where flower-growers were suffering, …
BLOG: Is the oceans’ power to maintain life rivaled by our own power to destroy it? By Ashley Westgate MSEP ’15 and Keston Finch MSCSP ’15 In the wake of the recent IPCC AR5 report, scientists have highlighted the added stress that increased anthropogenic CO2 is placing on our world’s ocean systems. …
By Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva and Izabel Hoyos Ever wonder what your life would be like if you had water once a week? What solutions would you adopt to help your community? (Previous CEP Students in Oaxaca) At the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) students have the opportunity to address …
Are you in college, or a recent graduate? Are you passionate about climate change, and wonder how to apply that passion to a meaningful career? Do you want to change the world? Join the C2C Fellows Network. Our next C2C Fellows Sustainability Workshop will bring together young leaders from …
BLOG: Ecological Entrepreneurship: The Key to a Sustainable Future? By Buck Doyle, MSEP ’16, and Christina Wildt, MSEP/MBA ’15 We are in an unprecedented time of economic development and social change, which has led to better living standards worldwide. But despite our capacity for technological advancement, we are actively …
All great things begin as anything else: as an idea. Though for me, well rather, for my idea to become reality, I had to shape it into a question. After all, I realized, the worst response to a question is “no”, and even then, one typically walks away from the …
BLOG: What’s Next Nuclear? By Jillian Corley, MSCSP ’15, and Reuben Jaffe Goldstein, MSEP/MBA ’16 Recent developments at the battered Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan are raising renewed fears over the negative impact of nuclear power on the environment and human health. The Japanese power company (Tokyo Electric Power …
The beginning of the semester is, for me, always a time for reflection on my purpose on the planet. Witnessing local communities in collapse—from Syria to Detroit— it can be hard to hang on to Dr. King’s vision of a moral arc of the universe that bends, eventually, towards justice. …
World Health Organization: A world of diplomacy and science So after seven years of studying in the US, I am finally back to my continent—Europe. And not only any place, but Germany. In order to get ready for the strict and proper German lifestyle, first I had to forget about the …
