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Climate or Cows:  What’s the answer?

Climate or Cows: What’s the answer?

by E. Melanie DuPuis and Nicole Virgona | Jan 30, 2018 | Agriculture, Climate Change, Science, Sustainability

Research demonstrates that the industrial livestock system, which produces 95% of the world’s meat, is a major source of the hydrocarbon methane — a potent climate-killing greenhouse gas that cows emit with alarming regularity. Is science on the verge of a solution?

The Bayer, Monsanto Merger: Shocking Consolidation or Fantastic Combination?

The Bayer, Monsanto Merger: Shocking Consolidation or Fantastic Combination?

by E. Melanie DuPuis | Oct 6, 2016 | Agriculture, Corporate Responsibility, Law & Policy, Sustainability

Faced with the proposed mergers of agribusiness giants, regulators must decide whether an even smaller number of companies will have an even more powerful hold on the future of food and agriculture.

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Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.

[caption id="attachment_14516" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.

Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13933" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Environmental Policy Clinic Team with Senator Terrence Murphy in Albany.
With New York State Senator Terrence Murphy (center) in Albany to discuss state policy regarding mistreatment of elephants in circuses.
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14526" align="aligncenter" width="500"]  Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).
Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14522" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.
Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14520" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses.
Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14521" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Discussing oyster regulation with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper at Pace, NYC.
Crafting oyster regulation policy with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper, Pace, NYC. (L.).
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_14528" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.
Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.
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Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis

dangerous digestion

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.

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