Dear Friends, We are circulating this call to participate in the national Power Dialog in April 2016. Help support 10,000 students to engage in face-to-face dialog with state-level regulators in all fifty states. The topic? Implementing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. How will it work? Hundreds of faculty nationwide will take their …
By Danielle Salisbury, M.S. Environmental Policy 2016 I got off the plane in Mexico City with a groggy group of new acquaintances I would soon be calling my friends, fellow adventurers, and in rougher times, my support system. I had made it. I had joined the Peace Corps and been …
Mr. Jeung Sub Park, 58, has been a fisherman and clammer on Garorim Bay on South Korea’s west coast all of his life. For the last six years, he has been leading a fight against so-called “clean energy”. A proposed tidal energy project at the mouth of the bay threatens …
As the faculty member responsible for addressing leadership development and study for Bard’s MBA in Sustainability I am especially interested in the crosscultural and intergenerational implications of climate change and sustainable economic development in leadership practice. The conference and site visits hosted by Yonsei University and KFEM provided me with …
In addition to being greatly enjoyable and professionally edifying, this workshop and tour provided multiple teaching applications that will broaden my pedagogy to better include East Asian environmental issues. This program was an excellent mix of theoretical discussion and field-based learning. The Yonsei University conference provided a strong basis for …
The Bard-Yonsei Workshop and Tour was a rare opportunity in terms of a personal introduction to East Asia and several local environmental issues in global context. I had never been to East Asia and, despite sustained interest, did not have personal local experience with the region. The tour made this …
The Power and Limits of Social Mobilization: Lessons from South Korea Social mobilization plays a powerful role in environmental politics for enabling marginalized groups or citizens who lack access to political influence to place their concerns onto the public agenda. In the United States, the broader environmental movement sparked in …
The Bard-Yonsei Workshop gave me an opportunity to make my first trip to East Asia. The itinerary was very planned and included a workshop at Yonsei University, followed by trips into Korea’s countryside on both its east and west coasts. While the workshop was outstanding, I felt that the three …
Over the years, I’ve come to see two different and seemingly contradictory movements as both vitally important to America’s future: the environmental movement, and the movement to bring jobs back to America and prevent large swaths of the country from turning into Detroit, Camden, Gary, and Youngstown, through a kind …
By Timothy Markle, M.S. in Climate Science and Policy 2016 Each winter, the winds around the Mediterranean Sea shift and blow onshore. As a result, quenching seasonal rains fall on a land that receives less than 10 inches per year. The water collects and fills the rivers, streams, and natural …
