Hi Everyone, Welcome to the Sustainability Office’s first ever blog post. We at the office though it would be a good idea to keep the student body and faculty updated on the going ons of what we are doing to help make Bard College a more sustainable campus (side note …
Friday evening marked the Northeast launch of Bard CEP’s C2C Fellows Program, a national network for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to sustainability leadership in politics and business. Majora Carter, the keynote speaker, chronicled her childhood growing up in the South Bronx amidst continual environmental degradation leading to her eventual …
The Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program’s sponsor, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, sent its congratulations today on the announcement that Bard College is one of this year’s Fulbright Scholarship “top producers.” Top-producing institutions in all Carnegie Classifications were highlighted in the October …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Bard President LEON BOTSTEIN appears on THE COLBERT REPORT on October 5, 2010 To view the interview, click here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361087/october-05-2010/leon-botstein
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 …
