Discounting the SCC: “Wait, this isn’t a sale!” By: Ashley Brinkman MS ’15 and Anna McKeigue MS ‘15 This week’s National Climate Seminar at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy focused on the social cost of carbon (SCC). The guest speaker, Laurie Johnson of the National Resource Defense Council, asked …
The Lost City of Miami By: Terence Duvall, MS ’15, and Molly Gilligan, MS ’15 We are currently experiencing a slow-motion catastrophe. The die is cast. We have emitted enough carbon into the atmosphere to guarantee climate change and rising sea levels. Some of our most precious real estate, our commercial …
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. …
BLOG: Ecological Entrepreneurship: The Key to a Sustainable Future? By Buck Doyle, MSEP ’16, and Christina Wildt, MSEP/MBA ’15 We are in an unprecedented time of economic development and social change, which has led to better living standards worldwide. But despite our capacity for technological advancement, we are actively …
BLOG: What’s Next Nuclear? By Jillian Corley, MSCSP ’15, and Reuben Jaffe Goldstein, MSEP/MBA ’16 Recent developments at the battered Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan are raising renewed fears over the negative impact of nuclear power on the environment and human health. The Japanese power company (Tokyo Electric Power …
Greenhouse Gases and Co-Pollutants: A Juggling Act By: Jada Garofalo, Ceyda Durmaz, and Alan Kroeger Monitoring more pollutants than merely carbon? This sounds like more work, right? Not according to James Boyce and Manuel Pastor. James Boyce, featured this past Wednesday in the last National Climate Seminar of the academic …
By Erika Nelson More than 3,000 people from 115 institutions participated in the National Conversation on Democracy and Climate last week, which was organized at Bard and available virtually to organizations across the country. Hosted by C2C Fellows on Wednesday, April 17, the event featured a coordinated nationwide screening of the filmThe …
By: David Nacmanie After living for more than two years in the small island nation of Samoa, I am well aware of the many challenges facing these small island states. From devastating tropical cyclones and tsunamis to water shortages and heat waves, these countries face big challenges with few resources. …
By Justine Schwartz How do you engage evangelical Christians—a group of people most commonly associated with denying the science of evolution and climate change—in the environmental movement? The answer lies in a growing, faith-based environmental movement called Creation Care. In February 2006, an ad signed by 86 prominent evangelical leaders …
By: Serafina Zeringo MS ’13 and Kyle Rorah MS ’13 Mark Reynolds, Executive Director of the Citizens Climate Lobby, spoke on the National Climate Seminar this week about citizen engagement, education, and environmental activism as ways to push Congress to have a stronger stance on environmental protection. Citizens Climate Lobby gains its …
