Tag: <span>National Climate Seminar</span>

4 Essentials to Working in a Coalition

As the Government Affairs Intern for Alaska Wilderness League in DC for the past few months, I’ve learned about the wide range of people who dedicate their lives to environmental work for Alaska – from people living in the Arctic who are already facing the effects of climate change, to …

Citizens from around the world impact Paris negotiations

At this moment word leaders, diplomats and politicians from everywhere on the earth are meeting in Paris to discuss the planet’s fate at the 21st Conference of the Parties. But this time, however, the citizens of this planet are watching, participating, and actively shaping the atmosphere of the negotiations. It …

Have you ever wanted to save the planet? Here’s one way you can.

If you wanted advice on how to save the world who would you ask? Buffy maybe, Wonder Woman or Indiana Jones? If you were really lucky Eban Goodstein and Dallas Burtraw might give you some solid strategies on how to really protect the planet from harm. And that is exactly …

Keystone XL and divestment: Building an effective climate campaign

Keystone XL and divestment: Building an effective climate campaign by: Brett Sykes   Recently, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s national climate seminar series hosted divestment campaign manager Jay Carmona and digital campaigner Duncan Meisel to talk about 350.org’s ongoing effort to fight global warming.  Together 350.org’s national divestment campaign …

Innovation: The Power of Gender Equality in Environmental Sustainability

Innovation: The Power of Gender Equality in Environmental Sustainability By Sara Gendel, MS ‘15   Climate change affects everyone, even though the stakes are unequal across societal groups such as region, class, and gender.  This inequality creates unsustainable economies, societies, political structures, and environmental management, especially for those living in …

Melting Arctic ice and methane gas bubbles: Is this the final countdown to global warming?

Melting Arctic Ice and Methane Gas Bubbles: Is this the final countdown to global warming? By: Shelly John and Meredith Murray   This week on National Climate Seminar (NCS) at Bard Center for Environmental Policy, we spoke with David Archer, a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department …

A Tip of the Hat to California’s Cap

A Tip of the Hat to California’s Cap By: Anne Lapera   In 2013 California initiated its groundbreaking cap and trade system as one mechanism to mitigate greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions produced in the state. Despite predictions by opponents of the cap and trade system and the broader California Global …

Desalination as Adaptation: Energy intensive, but sometimes necessary

Desalination as Adaptation: Energy Intensive, but Sometimes Necessary By Suolang Dongcuo, MS’15, and Emily McCarthy, MS’15   In different areas around the globe, increased population growth and intensive use of water in both agriculture and industry sectors have exacerbated the problem of lack of access to clean water. The UN …

This Tea Party Leader is Championing Green. Here’s Why.

Originally posted on: http://ecoaffect.org FEBRUARY 10, 2014 BY CAROLINE HODGE   Debbie Dooley isn’t your typical Tea Party leader. She’s a Georgia grandmother who became an activist six years ago when her first grandson was born. Dooley is co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots, and has been active with the Tea Party …

Green Tea, Georgia Style: A new brand of bipartisanship

Green Tea, Georgia Style A New Brew of Bipartisanship By Andrew Bonanno MS’15 and Jeremy Cherson MS’15   It’s election season 2012 and Colleen Kiernan, chapter director of the Georgia Sierra Club, is battling a bill that would limit the right to protest in the Peach State.  A broad coalition …