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Forget Greening the TPP – The Environment Needs Industrial Policy

Over the years, I’ve come to see two different and seemingly contradictory movements as both vitally important to America’s future: the environmental movement, and the movement to bring jobs back to America and prevent large swaths of the country from turning into Detroit, Camden, Gary, and Youngstown, through a kind …

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. …

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 …

The Unique Advantages of Living a Green Lifestyle & the Steps to Get There

2015 Winning PlushBeds Green Scholarship Essay By Sanaz Arjomand  MS ’16 Candidate Bard Center for Environmental Policy originally published by PlushBeds. Just as no shade of green is better than another, there is no best hue to a green lifestyle.Some may consider it greener to live in a rural area that …

Lauren Frisch BCEP ’14 Co-Authors Study in March Issue of Marine Policy

[show_avatar email=267 avatar_size=200]We are thrilled to announce Bard Center for Environmental Policy grad Lauren Frisch ’14  has co-authored the study “Gauging Public Perceptions of Ocean Acidification in Alaska”, a continuation of her master’s thesis research work with  faculty advisors Gautam Sethi and Jennifer Phillips using statistical tools and research methods she learned while at BardCEP. …

Training New Sustainability Leaders

By Wendee Nicole in Bioscience, an Oxford Journal As concerns over global environmental crises such as climate change intensify, programs are emerging to train the next generation of sustainability leaders from varied backgrounds, ranging from business to science. Environmental economist and educator Eban Goodstein has made training sustainability leaders his life’s …

“What Skills Do You Need to Work in Sustainability?”

What Skills Do You Need to Work in Sustainability?  Written by and posted on behalf of Rochelle March (Master’s in Environmental Policy and MBA in Sustainability Candidate 2015) I remember visiting a college friend in Switzerland after my first year of undergraduate school, where we mutually declared, “I just want …

Southern Lessons in Environmental Law

I come from the scenic Hudson Valley of New York State with a rich and inspiring history of environmental litigation in the name of conservation. It was there, at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, that I was inspired to pursue my interest in environmental law. After completing my first …

How to Make It as an Environmental Lawyer

There are many obstacles facing a recent graduate of environmental law. Many law graduates mass-produced in this country were poorly advised to choose the legal profession, since they find that in the face of extraordinary student debt, they have few advantages…a degree from a top tier law school, a top class …