Tag: <span>Bard ECOSeries</span>

What do we want from “Local Food Systems”?

By Dr. Jennifer Phillips Over the coming decades, climate change will challenge regional, national, and global economies.   Some regions of the world will see agricultural productivity drop by 50% by 2080, while regions will experience increased productivity.   Part of the adaptation process will be to build resilience into …

The SCC: the most important number almost no one has ever heard of.

By Karen Corey Love Canal. Chernobyl. Bhopal. Three Mile Island. Deepwater Horizon. Fukushima. Each of these is a place that has become synonymous with environmental disaster, provoking environmental regulation and concerns about large-scale environmental devastation.  Few people argue with the necessity of investing money to rehabilitate Superfund sites or radiation-contaminated zones.  But long-term, chronic environmental …