Earlier today, I was standing on top of the former Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill, which is now a superfund site. Capped and controlled since 2000, now it looks more like a big grassy hill with intermittent monitoring wells sticking out of it. The company I am interning for, Keramida, Inc., has …
By Judson Peck, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 Tedious, frustrating weeks of trial and error to manipulate code for statistical software describes my first project for UNDP that resulted in an impressive win for my boss. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of the Climate Change Adaptation Team, overseas all ongoing UNDP-GEF funded climate change …
With a bitter-sweet feeling, I left Washington, D.C., after spending the last 7 months of my life with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s oldest and biggest environmental non-governmental organizations, working as the Latino Climate Change Communications and Policy Intern. I am so grateful that I had the …
By Judson Peck, M.S. Environmental Policy ’15 “Mitigating and adapting to climate change is entirely compatible with pursuing development.” – Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator UNDP and Climate Change Efforts to tackle climate change have largely been focused on isolated, distinct, and often competing goals and actions on mitigation (lowering emissions) or adaptation …
After finishing the first year of my master’s degree in Climate Science and Policy (CSP) at Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) in Annandale on Hudson, NY, I changed from the landscape of the Hudson Valley to the wonderful city of Washington, D.C. and couldn’t be happier. As …
What Skills Do You Need to Work in Sustainability? Written by and posted on behalf of Rochelle March (Master’s in Environmental Policy and MBA in Sustainability Candidate 2015) I remember visiting a college friend in Switzerland after my first year of undergraduate school, where we mutually declared, “I just want …
I come from the scenic Hudson Valley of New York State with a rich and inspiring history of environmental litigation in the name of conservation. It was there, at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, that I was inspired to pursue my interest in environmental law. After completing my first …
There are many obstacles facing a recent graduate of environmental law. Many law graduates mass-produced in this country were poorly advised to choose the legal profession, since they find that in the face of extraordinary student debt, they have few advantages…a degree from a top tier law school, a top class …
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 …
I remember it well. Sitting down in the classroom at Bard CEP on a crisp morning in the Winter of 2013 to a class that I found both enlightening yet simultaneously intimidating, Environmental Economics. It was the first lecture of the semester, and we were set to discuss Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). …
