It’s been four months since I first stepped foot in Washington D.C. to embark on my summer internship with the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), and my time here has been nothing short of eye opening. I’ve learned numerous lessons over the course of the summer, but there is one that …
By Karen Corey Love Canal. Chernobyl. Bhopal. Three Mile Island. Deepwater Horizon. Fukushima. Each of these is a place that has become synonymous with environmental disaster, provoking environmental regulation and concerns about large-scale environmental devastation. Few people argue with the necessity of investing money to rehabilitate Superfund sites or radiation-contaminated zones. But long-term, chronic environmental …
Have you ever heard of the Maldive Islands? Well, neither had I, until a few months ago. The Maldive Islands, also known as the Republic of the Maldives, or just plain Maldives, are a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of India. Why are they important? …
The Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosted their annual internship dinner last night to welcome back their second year masters students. The Class of 2013 returned to campus last week to begin their last semester of classes and finish writing their masters level theses. First year Bard CEP students who …
By Lauren Hubbell ’14 and Danny Lapin ‘14 Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Research Fellow at Resources for the Future The Clean Air Act is vibrant and alive, even as its milestone provisions are decades old. Its regulatory clout is still felt across the political frontier of the nation. …
By Eban Goodstein. Reposted from Greenbiz.com on Oct 23, 2012 Are you (1) a patient leader and a systems thinker? Or (2) an impatient leader who likes to build things? When I counsel students interested in careers in sustainability, I direct them down two paths: policy and business. A policy …
Hello Bard CEP readers! It’s that time of year again – Summer is upon the Northern Hemisphere. For those of us still involved in the world of schooling, that means a time of rest, and, perhaps also a time of change. Over the past few months, I’ve found myself moving away …
The Fall 2011 National Climate Seminar series hosted by Bard CEP wrapped up yesterday with Mark Hertsgaard, author of “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.” The conversation encompassed the relevance of the Occupy Wallstreet protests to climate change initiatives, the UN climate change conference in Durban, and the …
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 …
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 …
