Tag: <span>culture</span>

Climate change and loss of culture: Why you should care

What’s your mental picture of the impacts of climate change? Starving polar bears, prolonged drought, rising sea levels, inundated cities, melting glaciers? But have you ever thought about the loss of cultural components because of climate change? If your answer is “no”, you’re in the same boat as most people. …

Music X Climate Change: Are Green Initiatives Enough?

  In 2019 I took over a hundred flights. It sounds crazy looking back after a year grounded by the pandemic. It also feels irresponsible after I spent that year at home studying climate science and policy at Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. But as a dance music DJ …

China Exploration and Research Society in Shangri-la

Written by Suolang Dongcuo (Master’s in Environmental Policy Candidate 2015)   After finishing the first year of my master’s degree at Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy, I decided to go back to Tibet where my knowledge is mostly needed. After a long and tedious search and application process, I …