Soda Planet
How much of the Earth’s currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? By xkcd/Randall Munroe Every Tuesday, the xkcd what if? webpage answers your hypothetical questions with physics. The above question was...
ElephantVoices: New Website, Unmatched Resource
Our friends at ElephantVoices, Dr. Joyce Poole and Petter Granli, (see also EarthDesk, September 10) have redesigned their already beautiful website, and it is stunning. It contains information on elephant communication, threats to elephants, elephant sense and...
Revkin’s Roundup: From Government Shutdown to Student Shutout
This week’s developments range from the exasperating to the exciting. Andy’s picks on the government shutdown and more. Government Shutdown Tom Friedman in The New York Times How gerrymandering and other political factors led to this impasse, with worse...
Fifth IPCC Report Sets a Global Carbon Budget
By Karl Coplan Karl Coplan is a professor of law at Pace Law School and co-director of its Environmental Litigation Clinic. This post also appears on GreenLaw, the blog of the Pace Environmental Law Program. More on Karl at the conclusion of this post. The Fifth...
Voyager of Hope
If our environment is the space we occupy, it is now interstellar. NASA reports: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion km) from our...
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.