Karen Corey ’13 is in CEP’s Master’s International program with the Peace Corps, about to start her Peace Corps assignment in Samoa. Today is the first day of my last week interning at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. For those who don’t know, RFF is an environmental economics …
Did you know that Red Hook, the town in which Bard is located, has a Conservation Advisory Council? The CAC was established in 1976 after the Town Board recognized that “establishment of a Conservation Advisory Council is a necessary step in fostering unified action on environmental problems.” Molly Williams, Bard …
For the past seven months, I have been working in the municipal Department of Agriculture in. Since the Department of Agriculture is responsible for agriculture, livestock and coastal resource projects, it has been a challenge to find a focus for the specific projects that I am involved in. I work …
Hello Readers, I’m finally in Colombia! It’s been about three weeks now. I am in Bogota which is very much a city. It’s got a New York feel only the buildings aren’t as tall, some people go home for lunch, and taxis and manicures are much cheaper. But the hustle …
(cross-posted from Dr. Sterling’s “Scientist at Work” blog from the New York Times) photo credit Kevin Frey This morning I woke up to a huge splash just offshore. I don’t even look any more as I know it is a large predator, either a jack or a shark, feeding in …
Professor Ranville passed along an article detailing a bit of her summer vacation: On an oven-hot afternoon this past Saturday, more than 250 people descended on an outdoor pavilion displaying 85 sculptures on tabletops in the Hudson Valley village of Tivoli, NY. They came first to view the sculptures–each one …
Dear friends and colleagues, Amidst the wreckage of climate legislation in DC, one thing is clear. This is not the fight of a day, of a year or of a decade. Even had the Senate acted, changing the future would still have required a vibrant, engaged global grassroots movement, pushing …
Over the last decade, and building especially through Obama’s election, the power of grassroots pressure for clean energy almost got the country past gridlock in D.C.. But now, through media meltdowns around hackergate and “global cooling”, Ted Kennedy’s death and the collapse of the Democratic super-majority, the failure of the …
Professors Gautam Sethi just returned from a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Here is a report from Professor Sethi about the nature of his trip: My goals to visit Oaxaca were two-fold: 1. To better understand the nature of the water problem and its resolution, as viewed by INSO 2. To …
Bard CEP Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Dr. Mara Ranville, attended an international conference on “Climate Change Curricula in Higher Education” from June 7-9, 2010, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference was intended to establish new international collaborations in climate change education; foster international comparisons and exchanges of curricula and pedagogical …