29 of Arctic 30 Released on Bail. Media Ignore the Real Story: The New Cold War
The global, political drama behind the Greenpeace protest at the Gazprom oil platform (EarthDesk, October 2) is being obscured by the news media’s longstanding fascination with cartoonish Russian and Soviet officials. Think Vladimir Putin shirtless, Leonid...
So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the...
Can Disaster Capitalism Sell Climate Change?
Did climate change cause Typhoon Haiyan? Time Magazine says no. Australia’s Sidney Morning Herald says yes. The UK’s Guardian says maybe. So goes the news media standoff on climate and superstorms. Duracell is less ambivalent. “There will be more...
Buttercup Festival by David Troupes
«« »» Buttercup Festival is the webcomic creation of artist and poet David Troupes. Though he brought Series II to an end on November 4, it and Series I reside in their full surreality, whimsy and beauty on his website here. He temporarily retired BF to focus on...
2013 Seventh of Top Ten Warmest Years — World Metereological Organization
Editor’s Note: The year 2013 is currently tied with 2003 as seventh of the top ten warmest years, according to a provisional report issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to coincide with COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Typhoon Haiyan: A Disaster of Nature, Pollution or Poverty?
Barely had Typhoon Haiyan moved on from its Philippines landfall before its origins were blamed on climate change. That nation’s climate representative, Yeb Sano, made an agonizing plea and pledged a hunger strike at COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on...
On the Cusp of Planetary Ruin: Get Radical, Step Outside the System
Something new is now urgently needed and I think the colleges and universities can and should lead in finding it. By James Gustave Speth Editor’s Note: The address below was delivered Saturday by Gus Speth who was presented with “The Great Work Award in...
Queen Butterflies Hatching by Sasha Harris-Cronin
For EarthDesk Sunday this week, a lovely iPhone video of hatching Queen Butterflies (Danaus gilippus) shot by Sasha Harris-Cronin while visiting the Butterflies and Blooms exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, which runs until...
Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.
Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.
With New York State Senator Terrence Murphy (center) in Albany to discuss state policy regarding mistreatment of elephants in circuses.
Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).
Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.
Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.
Crafting oyster regulation policy with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper, Pace, NYC. (L.).
Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.
Featured Faculty:
Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis
Inspired by new scientific studies of the human body as a metabiome, Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis, Professor and chair, Department of Environmental Science and Studies, reimagines the American body politic through a new metaphor — digestion — opening social transformations to ideas of mixing, fermentation, and collaboration. In doing so, she explores how social activists can rethink politics as inclusive processes that involve the inherently risky mixing of cultures, standpoints, and ideas. Dangerous Digestion at Amazon.