Tag: <span>energy</span>

Parting internships is such sweet sorrow

Happy new year! In my first blog post about my internship I said I was amazed how fast a month had already passed. Six months and many, many cartons of animal crackers later, it only feels like a few days have passed. While the original intent of my internship did …

Timing of Cost-Benefit Analyses

One thing I was particularly glad of during my internship was our class discussions regarding cost-benefit analyses, since the policy world is abuzz with the term at the moment. However, I began to think hard about a dimension of CBA that had not been discussed at CEP—the timeline of the …

Climate Policy Down Under

BardCEP graduate students and Director Goodstein spoke with Seb Henbest this past week, manager of Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s operations in Australia, as part of the ongoing National Climate Seminar series. Mr. Henbest has been working for BNEF since 2008 leading the company’s analysis on the carbon markets in the …

Linking Science and Policy

Bard CEP first year graduate students attended NYSERDA‘s Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection in New York: “Linking Science and Policy” conference in Albany yesterday. It was a jam-packed day of presentations, discussion and networking covering a range of topics such as alternative energy technologies, modeling/mapping tools, biomass heating and natural gas …

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 …

Concealing the Facts of Climate Change

This past Friday, BardCEP Environmental Policy graduate students attended the keynote address at the Hannah Arendt Center’s fourth annual conference, “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age Withought Facts.” The keynote address was given by Naomi Oreskes, co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues …

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 …

Blending Carbon Reductions and Energy Efficient Housing

Hello from the glorious state of Maine in the summer! I am currently interning at Maine State Housing Authority (MaineHousing) and serving as the Carbon Quantification Project Manager. MaineHousing is an independent state agency that bridges public and private housing finance, combining them to benefit Maine’s low and moderate-income people. …