Events & Media

Online Information Sessions

These online information sessions are for prospective students and applicants to learn firsthand about our innovative masters programs in an easy, low-carbon way. Each session is a brief 15-20 minute presentation followed by Q & A.

January 10, 2012 (closed): Q & A with Admission Staff & Director Goodstein (4:00pm Eastern)
February 16, 2012 (register): Q & A with Admission Staff & Director Goodstein (1:00pm Eastern)
March 6, 2012 (register): Q & A with Admission Staff and Director Goodstein (4:00pm Eastern)
April 10, 2012 (register): Online Info Session for Accepted Students (4:00pm Eastern)

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7071

C2C Fellows: Southeast Workshop

C2C Fellows Workshop

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

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The registration fee for the weekend is $30, and includes food and lodging. Students can often apply for funding to their student governments or activity boards. Scholarships are also available.

C2C Fellows is designed for young people who want to change the world by the time they are thirty. C2C helps Fellows pursue early leadership careers in politics and business to build a just and sustainable future. Admission to our workshops is limited: the admissions committee must make difficult choices based on the information you provide below.

C2C values diversity of thought. We seek people with different interests, life experiences, political starting points, and geographical and cultural backgrounds. 

C2C Follow-On Scholarships
We are pleased to announce that two graduates of our 2011-12 workshops will receive $1,000 scholarships to attend follow-on, multi-day leadership trainings. More on our website.

The deadline for applying to this workshop is Tuesday, February 6th.

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

The Big Table Screening

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Olin Hall

“There is a story behind everything that we eat. These stories play out everyday in the choices that we make when we all come together around the table.”

AGENDA
6:00pm: Doors open for seating
6:30pm: Welcome Remarks: Todd Erling, Executive Director of HVADC
6:45pm: Screening of The Big Table pilot episode “MILK”
7:15pm: Panel Discussion (see below)
8:30pm: Wrap up discussion and scholarship announcement

PANEL
The simple, or not so simple, choice to eat a product that is locally produced has such a wide ranging impact; the quality of the food we eat, the economic stability of a local farm, and the investment in the quality of life within a community. What are the roadblocks to eating and supporting local food? How to make it affordable?

Ben Niles – Director of the film
Megan Wetherall – Narrator in the film
Molly Raskin – Producer of the film
Ronny Osofsky – Owner, RonnyBrook Farm
Chas Cerulli – Chartwells Director of Dining Services, Bard College
Noah Shetz – Chef's Consortium
Eric Steinman – Editor, Edible Hudson Valley Edition
Dr. Jennifer Phillips – Professor, Bard Center for Environmental Policy and Owner/Operator, Gansvoort Farms

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
The Big Table: a six-part documentary series about food, family and preserving a way of life. “The Big Table” series hopes to educate, make real, and bring to life these issues and questions. The series is winner of the 2011 NYC Food Film Festival Audience Choice Award and is currently in production. More information.

Chartwells Locally Grown project: partners with and supports local farmers by promoting local produce and creating awareness of the many health benefits of eating well and buying local.

The Chef's Consortium is NYChef's promoting local food and sustainable farming.

Edible Hudson Valley Magazine celebrates the local, seasonal foods of the Hudson Valley

Bard Center for Environmental Policy offers graduate education in the interdisciplinary fields of environmental policy and climate science and policy. Professor Phillips teaches agronomy and climate science for Bard CEP as well as owns and operates a sustainable livestock farm in Clermont, NY

FRIEND OF FARMER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Hudson Valley Bounty will present donation check to Friend of the Farmer scholarship fund. This is a scholarship fund set up to aid students who are pursuing a degree in agricultural sciences.

Download: final poster screening.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Chartwells Dining Services
Phone: 845-758-7071

Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series - February 13, 2012

Is Sustainable More Productive?

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
641 6th Avenue, NYC 8th Floor

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Please join with leading experts in sustainable business for this powerful discussion series. Our second event will ask the question: "Is sustainable more productive?" You'll hear from experts who will speak to increases in productivity from incorporating sustainability practices into operations, work environment, and corporate policies. Following the presentations, there will be a discussion period open to questions from the audience.

6:30 PM: Doors open with small bites and refreshments
7 PM: Sustainable Business Series: Is Sustainable More Productive? Robert Fox Partner, Cook + Fox Architects Julie Engerran Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited Lee Coker Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund Eban Goodstein Bard MBA Director (Panel Moderator)
**Seating Limited. Click here to Register.
Ensure your seat at upcoming events as well! Register for all events in the Sustainable Business Series below.

Event flyer available for download below.

2012 Sustainable Business Series
February 6 
Starting a Sustainable Enterprise
Sue Van Hook Mycologist, Ecovative Design
Jeff Hittner* Founder, Ethikus; Co-founder, 3CS

February 13 Register HERE
Is Sustainable More Productive?
Robert Fox** Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
Julie Engerran* Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Lee Coker, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund

February 20 Register HERE
MBA Student Roundtable
Speakers TBA
MBA current students and graduates discuss the key elements of a successful MBA in sustainability program

February 27 Register HERE
Financing Clean Energy
Peter Fusaro* Chairman, Global Change Associates
Donald Carlson** Founding Partner, The Forefront Law Group

March 5 Register HERE
A Conversation with Hunter Lovins
Hunter Lovins* President, Natural Capitalism Inc.

March 12 Register HERE
Sustainable Finance, What Does it Look Like?
Rick Stuckey** Investment Professional
John Cusack* Founder, Gifford Park Associates
Judy Samuelson Executive Director, Business & Society Program, The Aspen Institute

* Bard MBA Faculty
** Bard MBA Advisory Board

Download: SBS Flyer.pdf

Sponsored: Bard MBA in Sustainability
Contact: Katie Van Sant
Phone: 845-758-7388
E-mail: kvansant@bard.edu

National Climate Seminar: Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale

Six Americas: Communication on Climate

12:00 pm
Conference Call

Join the National Climate Seminar by dialing in at 12:00pm eastern on the scheduled day.
Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385.

http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs/

About This Speaker:

Anthony Leiserowitz is an expert on American and international public opinion on global warming, including public perception of climate change risks, support and opposition for climate policies, and willingness to make individual behavioral change. His research investigates the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive public environmental perception and behavior. He has conducted survey, experimental, and field research at scales ranging from the global to the local, including international studies, the United States, individual states (Alaska and Florida), municipalities (New York City), and with the Inupiaq Eskimo of Northwest Alaska. He also recently conducted the first empirical assessment of worldwide public values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding global sustainability, including environmental protection, economic growth, and human development. He has served as a consultant to the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), the United Nations Development Program, the Gallup World Poll, the Global Roundtable on Climate Change at the Earth Institute (Columbia University), and the World Economic Forum.  More About This Speaker

Download: NCS spring12.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

National Climate Seminar: Billy Parish, Solar Mosaic

Careers: Finding Meaning, Money and Community

12:00 pm
Conference Call

Join the National Climate Seminar by dialing in at 12:00pm eastern on the scheduled day.
Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385.

http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs/

About this Speaker

Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Elected in 2007 as the youngest U.S. Ashoka Fellow, Billy has launched dozens of youth, climate and green jobs initiatives. More About this Speaker

Download: NCS spring12.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

National Climate Seminar: Auden Schendler, Aspen Skiiing Co.

Getting Green Done: Front Line Sustainability Work

12:00 pm
Conference Call

Join the National Climate Seminar by dialing in at 12:00pm eastern on the scheduled day.
Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385.

http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs/

About This Speaker

Auden Schendler is Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He worked previously in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute. Auden has been a trailer insulator, burger flipper, ambulance medic, Outward Bound instructor, high school math and English teacher, freelance writer, and Forest Service goose nest island builder. An avid outdoorsman, Auden has climbed Denali, North America's highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Slate, Scientific American Earth 3.0,  and Salon.com and other media, and his work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure and Businessweek. In 2006, Auden was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine. He has also been named a Wirth Chair "Pioneer of the New Energy Economy" by the University of Colorado, a "Climate Saver" by the EPA, and an E-chievement award winner by the radio show E-town. Auden has testified to congress on the impacts of climate change and speaks widely on sustainability. His book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution was called "an antidote to greenwash" by NASA's James Hansen. He lives in Basalt, Colorado with his wife Ellen and their children Willa and Elias. More About This Speaker

Download: NCS spring12.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

National Climate Seminar: Paul Comey, GMCR

The Climate for Coffee

12:00 pm
Conference Call

Join the National Climate Seminar by dialing in at 12:00pm eastern on the scheduled day.
Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385.

http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs/

About the Speaker

Paul Comey is Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. His responsibilities include assuring the company’s sites are in environmental compliance with all local, state and federal laws, reducing the environmental impact of the company’s operations, and contributing to the management of the company’s environmental, financial and social bottom lines.

Paul has a vision of accelerating Green Mountain Coffee’s leadership in the environmental arena by using climate change as a competitive advantage. His initial efforts to map the company’s environmental footprint have resulted in significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. He sees the company’s commitment to GHG reduction and mitigation as essential to the company’s core belief that business can be a change agent in the world. Paul has initiated programs and processes that exhibit his belief that environmental practices are typically best business practices. His focus on the four R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle, recover) through the use of EMS (Environmental Management System) has diverted much of the waste stream resulting in a financial revenue stream. Paul shares the company’s environmental best practices through public speaking engagements and by testifying before state and federal agencies to influence environmental policies.

Prior to joining Green Mountain Coffee in 1993, Paul founded and managed Baseline Solutions, a consulting company focused on bottom line improvements in manufacturing operations, pollution compliance, equipment design and process layout. During this time, GMCR was a major client for Baseline Solutions. Paul graduated from Boston State College with a major in sociology and a minor in education. After teaching for four years he was awarded a fellowship to Fitchburg State College, earning an ME. More About This Speaker

Download: NCS spring12.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

C2C Fellows: Oberlin College Workshop

C2C Fellows Workshop

Oberlin College

April 6th-April 8th

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C2C Fellows is designed for young people who want to change the world by the time they are thirty. C2C helps Fellows pursue early leadership careers in politics and business to build a just and sustainable future. Admission to our workshops is limited: the admissions committee must make difficult choices based on the information you provide below.

C2C values diversity of thought. We seek people with different interests, life experiences, political starting points, and geographical and cultural backgrounds. 

By 2016, C2C Fellows graduates will be running for the US Congress and for office at state and local level and taking on leading private sector roles, developing sustainable business. C2C Fellows is the power network for young people with the wisdom, talent, and grace to remake the future. Two graduates of this year’s C2C workshops will receive $1,000 scholarships to attend follow-on, multi-day leadership trainings, one focused on how to start a green business, and the other, on how to run your own political campaign.

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

Graduate Open House

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

April 7, 2012  Graduate Open House for Bard Center for Environmental Policy and Bard MBA is Sustainability at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (11-2pm)

>>>>Register Here<<<<

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7071

National Climate Seminar: Cynthia Rosenzweig, Climate Impacts Group, NASA

Climate and Food Supply

12:00 pm
Conference Call

Join the National Climate Seminar by dialing in at 12:00pm eastern on the scheduled day.
Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385.

http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs/

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University. She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, and was the lead scientist on the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Climate Change Task Force. For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, she was a Coordinating Lead Author on the Assessment of Observed Changes and Responses in Natural and Managed Systems. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. She leads the Climate Impacts Group at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Dr. Rosenzweig is currently the Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change.

Dr. Rosenzweig received her Ph.D. in Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. She earned an M.S. in Soils and Crops from Rutgers University and a BA in Agricultural Sciences from Cook College. She has authored or co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific articles and authored or edited eight books. More About This Speaker

Download: NCS spring12.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073

National Climate Seminar: Jihan Gearon, Black Mesa Coalition

Carbon Supply Chain: Black Mesa and Beyond

12:00 pm
Conference Call

Join the National Climate Seminar by dialing in at 12:00pm eastern on the scheduled day.
Call-in number: 1-712-432-3100; Conference Code: 253385.

National Climate Seminar Website

About the Speaker:

Jihan Gearon is Diné (Navajo) and African American. Jihan grew up in Fort Defiance, located on the eastern part of the Navajo reservation in Arizona. She is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelors of Science in Earth Systems and a focus in Energy Science and Technology. In her current role as Executive Director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC), Jihan leads her staff and network in building a just transition away from the fossil fuel based economy of the Navajo Nation and towards a green economy that uplifts the traditional economy and honors the culture of the Navajo people. Jihan is an active organizer, speaker, and writer on Indigenous Peoples rights, and environmental, energy and climate justice. Her experience and expertise includes work on Indigenous Peoples rights, environmental justice, climate justice, and the impacts of energy development, climate change, and related policies on Indigenous Peoples and people of color. Jihan is based out of Flagstaff, Arizona. More About This Speaker

Download: NCS spring12.pdf

Sponsored: Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Phone: 845-758-7073