Category: <span>CEP Faculty</span>

Bard in the News

Below is a small sample of recent Bard-related news items. There are far too many to list in full,  but here are some recent highlights: Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein on WAMC Radio: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1755070 The NY Times on Citizen Science: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/nyregion/22science.html Blog posting on Citizen Science: http://www.science20.com/citizen_science_journal/new_model_citizen_science_classroom-75566 Kudos to Citizen …

As we move further into the internship season, I wanted to just quickly remind you how important it is to send a thank you letter right after you’ve had any kind of an interview, even just an informational one. The letter should go out immediately (within 24 hours), and it …

Bard Professor Felicia Keesing in the News

This week the journal Nature published a new study on biodiversity and human disease, whose lead author is Bard’s own Felicia Keesing. This important study has received international attention and press. The New York Times mentioned described this study in an article on Dec. 2nd in the article “As Biodiversity …

Climate Realism: Too Late for What?

By Eban Goodstein The elections this month saw the breaching of the 2016 deadline set by NASA’s Jim Hansen for global CO2 stabilization, and also moved us well beyond IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pauchuari’s statement that action beyond 2012 “will be too late”. So where does this leave us? For what …

Director Goodstein Advising Chevrolet on Clean Energy Initiative

Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein participated in a press conference announcing a major new green initiative by General Motors. Chevy’s $40 million project aims to reduce 8 million metric tons of carbon over the next few years through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in communities across the country. Below are …

Dr. Eleanor Sterling Answers Sea Turtle Questions for NY Times

Last month we posted CEP adjunct professor Dr. Eleanor Sterling’s article on NYTimes.com’s “Scientists at Work” blog about her work in the isolated Northern Pacific atoll (a special kind of island) called Palmyra Atoll. A Q&A was recently posted on their blog, in which she answers readers’ questions about sea …

Report on the 8th Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in Ghent by Prof. Victor Tafur

A Brief Report on the 8th Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in Ghent, Belgium, by Prof. Victor Tafur During September 13-17, 2010, I visited the charming City of Ghent, in the Flemish region of Belgium, to participate in this year’s Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental …

Plenitude: Can You Be Rich and Green? – Director Goodstein

Cross Post from RealClimateEconomics.org, a project of Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3). E3 Network is a national network of economists developing new arguments for the active protection of human health and the environment. E3 Network is an affiliate of Ecotrust. Plenitude: Can You Be Rich and Green? by …

Will Green Jobs Win?

Five years ago, green jobs were in nobody’s dictionary. This fall, these two magic words may keep critical climate legislation alive in California. One of the little-recognized victories of the climate movement has been a dramatic reframing of the debate around environment and economy. Right now, the fossil fuel industry …

Teaching Environmental Economics, Webinar 9/30

I wanted to invite folks to join an on-line discussion of teaching environmental and natural resource economics. Wiley is releasing the 6th edition of my textbook, Economics and the Environment this fall, and have asked me to do a webinar on the challenges we are facing as teachers in a …