Tag: <span>education</span>

Training New Sustainability Leaders

By Wendee Nicole in Bioscience, an Oxford Journal As concerns over global environmental crises such as climate change intensify, programs are emerging to train the next generation of sustainability leaders from varied backgrounds, ranging from business to science. Environmental economist and educator Eban Goodstein has made training sustainability leaders his life’s …

Leadership Education for Sustainability: Balancing Confidence and Humility

Contributed to the Spheres of Influence by Molly Gilligan.  To view the original post, and to listen to the podcast of the discussion with Dr. Michael Shriberg, and Dr. Eban Goodstein, moderated by the Spheres of Influence founder Dr. Sarah Warren, please click here.  As a Master’s student in Environmental Policy, I am …

It Is Never “Just” Water

I recently finished a short stint interning with the Sierra Business Council in Truckee, California. With them I researched and wrote a series of advocacy white papers to help build support and form a coalition for an allocation from the proposed 2014 state water bond measures for upper watershed land …

Slow Water for Oaxaca: Help us Make this Project Possible

By Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva and Izabel Hoyos Ever wonder what your life would be like if you had water once a week? What solutions would you adopt to help your community? (Previous CEP Students in Oaxaca) At the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) students have the opportunity to address …

Environmental Leadership Workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Environmental Action in Michigan Most of the time when people think of green cities, they think of San Francisco. Here in the US we tend to praise California for the progressive actions the state, and its cities, have taken to protect the environment. When we think of the Midwest, however, …

Finding Your Calling: Bard CEP Class of 2013 Internship Dinner

The Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosted their annual internship dinner last night to welcome back their second year masters students. The Class of 2013 returned to campus last week to begin their last semester of classes and finish writing their masters level theses. First year Bard CEP students who …

Protest, Power, OWS and C2C

Eban Goodstein, Director Bard Center for Environmental Policy In Early September, I was sitting hand-cuffed in the back of a police paddy-wagon with two-dozen other guys. Everybody was in a good mood. We had all just been arrested in front of the White House, as part of a large-scale, peaceful …

Week 2 of School, Complete

From the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted on February 11, 2011 All of Group 83 has now finished our first two weeks of school here in Samoa. That does not, however, mean that much learning – or teaching – has taken place. As I wrote last week, the …

Karen and Dave Reach Samoa

Cross Posted from Karen and Dave in Samoa on October 14, 2010 Samoa: A Pacific Paradise Since we have arrived in Samoa, we have had a full day at the beach, another day snorkeling off of a catamaran in a coral lagoon, learned a healthy dose of common phrases, and met …

Dr. Botstein on The Colbert Report Interview

Bard President LEON BOTSTEIN appears on THE COLBERT REPORT on October 5, 2010 To view the interview, click here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361087/october-05-2010/leon-botstein