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Pioneer River Researcher Joseph Rachlin to Receive Higher Ed Top Honor

Pioneer River Researcher Joseph Rachlin to Receive Higher Ed Top Honor

by John Cronin | Nov 4, 2015 | Ecology, Education, Higher Education, Pollution, Water

Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities to Present Rachlin the Great Work Award at its Annual Meeting November 7, Vassar College. There are 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams in the U.S. Add to that our estuaries, bayous, bays, lakes, wetlands and...
Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Reports for Duty

Pace Environmental Policy Clinic Reports for Duty

by John Cronin | Sep 25, 2014 | Education, General, Higher Education, Law & Policy

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

Student Environmental Policy Clinic: New York Law Could End Elephant Torture in Circuses

by Guest Contributor | Apr 12, 2014 | Animal Welfare, Higher Education, Law & Policy

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

The Human and the Environment: Bridging the Gap with Education and Service

by Carolyn Craig | Jan 3, 2014 | Creativity, Health, Higher Education, Smart Thought

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

On the Cusp of Planetary Ruin: Get Radical, Step Outside the System

by Guest Contributor | Nov 11, 2013 | Ecology, Economics, Higher Education, Law & Policy, Sustainability

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

“Never Has Our Duty Been More Clear” — Higher Education in a Changing World

by Michelle D. Land | Nov 8, 2013 | Higher Education, Sustainability

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...
EarthDesk, published regularly during the academic year, is the online journal of the Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (DCISE) at Pace University. John Cronin, editor.

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Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.

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.

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.

  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.).

Aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.

Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.

Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses.

Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.

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.).

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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