Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Reports for Duty
Pace Academy’s Fall 2014 Environmental Policy Clinicians reported for duty with a full docket awaiting from their Spring 2014 colleagues: community energy, wildlife protection, invasive plants, food justice, circus animals, and nightsky pollution. We will follow...
Student Environmental Policy Clinic: New York Law Could End Elephant Torture in Circuses
By the Circus Animal Team Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Note: This week, our students from the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic launched their ePolicy blog, featuring news and updates on their docket of cases. The article below, by the Clinic’s Circus Animal...
The Human and the Environment: Bridging the Gap with Education and Service
Editor’s Note: A recurring theme here at EarthDesk, especially during this holiday season, is our duty to the other members of our specie. Caroline Craig offers her unique perspective — as a former environmental studies student, as research assistant for...
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...
“Never Has Our Duty Been More Clear” — Higher Education in a Changing World
Editor’s Note: Today I am reporting from the Tenth Annual Conference of the Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities, a collaborative of 60 higher education institutions in the Hudson-Mohawk watershed. In her opening remarks, below, consortium...
Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.
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Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.
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With New York State Senator Terrence Murphy (center) in Albany to discuss state policy regarding mistreatment of elephants in circuses.
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Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).
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Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.
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Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.
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Crafting oyster regulation policy with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper, Pace, NYC. (L.).
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Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.
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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.