Publicado originalmente en La Voz, Edición Febrero 2012. Por Ariadne Prior-Grosch Desde el año 1970 la temperatura promedio anual en el estado de Nueva York ha subido 2.4°F. Este aumento en temperatura representa sólo una fracción del potencial del calentamiento que podemos ver durante los próximos sesenta años. Recientemente la …
Publicado originalmente en La Voz, Edición Diciembre 2011. Por Ariadne Prior-Grosch La situación ambiental en el estado de Nueva York está muy dinámica con los proyectos de extracción del gas natural y la expiración de los permisos para los reactores nucleares en Indian Point. El Gobernador Andrew Cuomo tiene que tomar …
The Fall 2011 National Climate Seminar series hosted by Bard CEP wrapped up yesterday with Mark Hertsgaard, author of “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.” The conversation encompassed the relevance of the Occupy Wallstreet protests to climate change initiatives, the UN climate change conference in Durban, and the …
Friday evening marked the Northeast launch of Bard CEP’s C2C Fellows Program, a national network for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to sustainability leadership in politics and business. Majora Carter, the keynote speaker, chronicled her childhood growing up in the South Bronx amidst continual environmental degradation leading to her eventual …
BardCEP graduate students and Director Goodstein spoke with Seb Henbest this past week, manager of Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s operations in Australia, as part of the ongoing National Climate Seminar series. Mr. Henbest has been working for BNEF since 2008 leading the company’s analysis on the carbon markets in the …
Bard CEP first year graduate students attended NYSERDA‘s Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection in New York: “Linking Science and Policy” conference in Albany yesterday. It was a jam-packed day of presentations, discussion and networking covering a range of topics such as alternative energy technologies, modeling/mapping tools, biomass heating and natural gas …
For anyone looking for a crash course on how CO2 controls the climate, there is no better teacher than Dr. Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the EMS Environment Institute at Penn State University. Alley, who has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been called …
Eban Goodstein, Director Bard Center for Environmental Policy In Early September, I was sitting hand-cuffed in the back of a police paddy-wagon with two-dozen other guys. Everybody was in a good mood. We had all just been arrested in front of the White House, as part of a large-scale, peaceful …
This past Friday, BardCEP Environmental Policy graduate students attended the keynote address at the Hannah Arendt Center’s fourth annual conference, “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age Withought Facts.” The keynote address was given by Naomi Oreskes, co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues …
Post by Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein Last fall, I took on a volunteer advisory role helping Chevy figure out how to spend $40 million on clean energy projects. I also met Lucy Van Hook, at the time, a new Master’s Student here at Bard CEP. Lucy came to us …
