Category: <span>CEP Faculty</span>

Goodstein reviews “The Island President” as the best global warming film in years

Reposted from Grist By Eban Goodstein “A cross between paradise and paradise.” This is how Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives describes his nation in Jon Shenk’s powerful new film, The Island President. Shenk follows President Nasheed over a one-year period, leading up to the Copenhagen climate summit, in a beautiful, courageous, and …

¿Otra oportunidad al medio ambiente?

Sobre El Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre Colombia y los Estados Unidos/On Environmental Aspects of the Free Trade Agreement between US and Colombia Publicado originalmente Febrero 10, 2012, en El Espectador.com Opinión Por: Prof. Víctor M. Tafur EL TLC CON LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, aprobado finalmente el año pasado, contiene un …

Río+20: ¿habrá Futuro?

Sobre el documento original para negociar en la Conferencia sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible Rio+20/On the “zero version” of the “Future We Want” for the Rio+20 Conference Publicado originalmente Enero 13, 2012, en El Espectador.com Opinión Por: Prof. Víctor M. Tafur El documento original para negociar en la Conferencia sobre el Desarrollo …

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 …

Small World, Green World: Chevy, Clean Energy and Maine Housing

Post by Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein Last fall, I took on a volunteer advisory role helping Chevy figure out how to spend $40 million on clean energy projects. I also met Lucy Van Hook, at the time, a new Master’s Student here at Bard CEP.  Lucy came to us …

Eban leaves the White House

Bard Environment Director Arrested at White House Civil Disobedience Designed to Impact Obama Pipeline Decision Sept 2, Annandale-on-Huson, NY– The Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Eban Goodstein, was arrested in front of the White House on Thursday.  Goodstein joined over 800 peaceful protesters sent to jail over …

New map highlights which reefs are salvageable and which ones are doomed

An article published yesterday in the PLoS ONE by Maina and colleagues, Global Gradients of Coral Exposure to Environmental Stresses and Implications for Local Management, investigates the reasons for global coral reef decline.  They found that “despite radiation stress being the most dominant stressor, the exposure of coral reefs could …

Federal Committee: Shale Gas Needs More Openness, Better Data

A U.S. Department of Energy committee has waded into the fracas over the production of natural gas from shale using the controversial hydrofracturing, or fracking, technology, with a call for shared data. Read rest of report on ScienceNOW

Group calls for scientists to engage in politics

In the NY Times today there was an interesting piece discussing the absence of scientists in the public eye. “When asked to name a scientist, Americans are stumped. In one recent survey, the top choice, at 47 percent, was Einstein, who has been dead since 1955, and the next, at …

Bard in the News

CEP Director Eban Goodstein appears on WAMC-Radio’s “Academic Minute”: http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/7720/7720_NA478386&site=7720 Bard College Conservatory Vocal Arts students perform at Morgan Library and receive positive review from the NY Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/arts/music/bard-college-graduate-students-at-morgan-library-museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=bard%20college&st=cse Jacob Neusner is cited in numerous articles about Pope Benedict’s new book: http://newsguide.us/media/media-news/broadcast/5881-popes-new-book-is-instant-new-york-times-bestseller.html Norman Manea writes on “Revolutionary Shadows”: http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=122119 Eileen Quinlan …