I duck under the tin roof of the cooking enclosure and my lungs immediately fill with smoke. Gabby is explaining how they use the ash from the cooking fires in their newly installed dry bathrooms at the #131 Secondary School of San Miguel Suchixtepec. We are 8,000 feet above sea …
My formal internship with eatable is ending, but I am lucky enough to be able to continue working until BCEP starts up again. Continuing to work means getting to have more of a seat at the table in business development conversations as well as accompanying founders Cam Pascual and Mia …
CEP Director Dr. Eban Goodstein was on the radio last week talking about the recent IPCC report and how we might still stabilize the climate over the next dozen years. Goodstein was joined by documentary film maker Jon Bowermaster, for a free-wheeling conversation about solar power, autonomous electric vehicles, environmental …
Gautam Sethi, Associate Professor at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, has been recognized for developing an innovative climate change education program by a national geosciences education organization, On the Cutting Edge. Working with Bard Environmental and Urban Studies faculty member Robyn Smyth, and former CEP climate scientist Sandra Penny, …
BY Professor Nate Shockey In July 2018, I spent several days on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan engaged in site visits for my research project, “Contested Representations of Industrial Infrastructure in Southwestern Japan,” sponsored by a faculty research grant as part of the Luce Foundation LIASE Initiative. This …
By Diego Callenbach Working on a farm across the world in Japan was truly something I had never imagined doing in my entire life prior to the second semester of my first year at Bard. Initially, my professor Nathan Shockey and advisor Yuka Suzuki had mentioned a lecture in the …
By Yuxuan Zhan This May, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in the Bard-Japan Farm Exchange program in Honbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan and receive a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. As a student currently studying Philosophy and Music, I never thought that I would have the opportunity …
The CEP Team One of the most common reasons any Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) student offers for selecting this program out of the many other environmental or sustainability focused graduate programs is its unique, interdisciplinary approach. We each come to CEP from various academic backgrounds – ranging from …
As a Westerner, when I ask myself what marginalized remote indigenous communities can do when facing severe water shortages and little in the way of modern technological resources, I am sometimes at a loss. Much to my surprise and pleasure, Bard CEP’s visit to the community of San Juan Cieneguilla …
What do coastal resort towns and mountainous coffee farms have in common with peri-urban Oaxaca? Other than places visited by Bard CEP during our time in Mexico this January, they are home to communities that recognize the value of nature and natural spaces and are working at the local level …
