Tag: <span>water</span>

Water and Whiteness in Oaxaca

I am one of those oddball people who tend to travel only out of necessity, and feel ready to return home halfway through a vacation. Oaxaca is different, though. The first day I was here I fell in love, and as anyone who was on last year’s Bard CEP J-term …

Not Under My Back Yard (NUMBY): Do You Really Own Your Property?

For the past several decades the US has pursued policies that promote energy independence and both energy and national security. As part of this pursuit, high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technologies were first developed in the late 1940s by Halliburton, and its technological advances after the 1970s have rapidly increased oil …

Are lawns a waste of space and resources?

The American ideal of the house with a white picket fence usually includes a nice green lawn. Now, that ideal has become a part of law in many communities; many zoning rules and homeowner codes mandate grass in front of our houses. Suburban environments are looking more and more the …

When Renewable Energy isn’t ‘Green’: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Reservoirs

By Kale Roberts, M.S. in Climate Science and Policy 2016 Hydropower is often considered a clean energy source, free of climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions. But although dams have been demonized for disrupting fish migrations and flooding valleys inhabited by families for generations, this so-called renewable form of energy has largely …

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. …

The Real World: PES-Style

I remember it well. Sitting down in the classroom at Bard CEP on a crisp morning in the Winter of 2013 to a class that I found both enlightening yet simultaneously intimidating, Environmental Economics. It was the first lecture of the semester, and we were set to discuss Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). …

We Need Water Markets if We’re to Solve the Global Water Crisis

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, …

Is the oceans’ power to maintain life rivaled by our own power to destroy it?

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. …

Slow Water for Oaxaca: Help us Make this Project Possible

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 …

The Gordian Knot of the Sierras

The legend of the Gordian Knot is often used as a metaphor to describe an how an intractable problem can be solved by thinking “outside the box.” After my first month at the Sierra Nevada Alliance (Alliance), I realized that it will take some unconventional thinking to address environmental issues …