The Tragedy of Indian Farmers Under Neoliberalism
40,000 Farmers Have Committed Suicide Since 2000 Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace ’16, is a political science major and the former head of the Community Energy Team at the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. He spent the summer studying in India under a Benjamin A....
Projecting Change at the Empire State Building by Racing Extinction
Manta rays, 40 stories high, blue whales swimming hundreds of feet above the city streets — the vision of Academy Award® winning, Racing Extinction director Louie Psihoyos and world-renowned visual artist Travis Threlkel was projected on the Empire State...
Candidate Clinton Parts with Secretary Clinton on Arctic Oil Drilling
FOLLOWING PRESIDENT OBAMA’S final approval of Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic oil drilling, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton parted ways with her own advocacy of the administration’s long-established Arctic policy. She did so in a...
Erie County, NY Enacts Microbead Ban
Legislator Patrick B. Burke: “I knew I had to do something.” MICROBEADS are spherical particles of polyethylene present in thousands of personal care products — toothpastes, shampoos, lotions, exfoliating skin scrubs and more. Some products proudly...
Abandoned Mines by Pat Bagley
Also see EarthDesk, August 11, EPA Spills Sludge in the Animas River. «« »» Patrick “Pat” Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah. His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The...
EPA Spills Toxic Sludge into the Animas River: Will the Agency Apply Its Enforcement Policy to Itself?
LAST WEDNESDAY, a team working for EPA Region 8 caused a spill of 3 million gallons of yellow sludge contaminated with toxic metals from the Gold King Mine north of Silverton, Colorado into Cement Creek, a tributary to the Animas River. By Sunday, New Mexico was on...
Raw Sewage and Rio ’16 by Dave Granlund
Ed Note: The World Health Organization has demanded testing of all water venues for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro following an Associated Press investigation that revealed “athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in...
India’s Cultural Barrier to Change
Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace ’16, is a political science major and the former head of the Community Energy Team at the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. He is studying in India under a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. His first post, Into the World...
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.