Tag: <span>sustainability</span>

Leadership Education for Sustainability: Balancing Confidence and Humility

Contributed to the Spheres of Influence by Molly Gilligan.  To view the original post, and to listen to the podcast of the discussion with Dr. Michael Shriberg, and Dr. Eban Goodstein, moderated by the Spheres of Influence founder Dr. Sarah Warren, please click here.  As a Master’s student in Environmental Policy, I am …

Money of the People, by the People, and for the People — and the Planet

Financing a Sustainable Future On September 21, 2014, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched down the streets of New York City, demanding that world leaders about to meet at the United Nations Climate Summit lay the groundwork for meaningful action to address global climate change. The day before the climate …

“What Skills Do You Need to Work in Sustainability?”

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 …

It’s People, Stupid: C2C Exclusive Conversation with Dr. Bob Musil

By Andrew Bonanno, C2C Fellows Program Assistant Here at the Bard CEP, the C2C Fellows sustainability leadership program hosts quarterly conversations on timely sustainability topics, inviting Fellows from across the country to call in and participate in the conversations. Called C2C Exclusives, these discussions are just one of the many …

Slow Water for Oaxaca: Help us Make this Project Possible

By Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva and Izabel Hoyos Ever wonder what your life would be like if you had water once a week? What solutions would you adopt to help your community? (Previous CEP Students in Oaxaca) At the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) students have the opportunity to address …

Ecological Entrepreneurship: The Key to a Sustainable Future?

BLOG: Ecological Entrepreneurship: The Key to a Sustainable Future? By Buck Doyle, MSEP ’16,  and Christina Wildt, MSEP/MBA ’15   We are in an unprecedented time of economic development and social change, which has led to better living standards worldwide. But despite our capacity for technological advancement, we are actively …

Sustainable Meat, by Bike

By Will Mitchell, C2C Fellow The words that follow reflect Tenleytown Meat Company’s view on sustainability: “Sustainability is something good to strive for, daily, in all that we are. It is the honest, courageous, and exciting journey to create a future in which all people everywhere are able to live …

Lying in waste

My internship with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has been a great reminder of what I loved so much about working in sustainability. Perhaps it’s just the southern charm that I missed when I lived in New York, but everyone here is so polite, whether it’s greeting each other …

I Want to Be a Politician… or a Rock Star

Every year, the C2C Fellows Network sponsors a graduate from our first-round sustainability leadership workshops to attend Wellstone Action’s Camp Wellstone. This 2.5 day long workshop is open to anyone interested in gaining practical skills in progressive political action. Wellstone Action trains candidates, campaign workers, and organizers on how to win progressive change.  …

C 2 (small) C: The Best of Many Worlds

C2C is a versatile acronym that means several things. It stands for Campus 2(to) Congress, Campus to City Hall, Campus to Capitol Hill — and Campus to Corporation. We use “corporation” as a catch-all for entrepreneurship at every level –starting your own business, joining the team at a small company, or …