by EarthDesk | May 24, 2013 | Energy, Fracking, Law & Policy, Technology, Water
By Monika Freyman EarthDesk welcomes guest blogger Monika Freyman who analyzes for us the adequacy of the fracking standards recently proposed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. Monika is a water program manager at Ceres, and...
by EarthDesk | May 23, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Economics, Energy, Fracking, Pollution, Technology, Water
The Department of Interior’s latest proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands could set a precedent for how fracking is regulated on private lands nationally and by individual states. Judging from online reactions, the agency may well believe...
by John Cronin | May 22, 2013 | Climate Change, General, Technology, Water
But Kepler-62f Offers No Oasis When Earth Runs Out. For my (tax) money, the most fascinating NASA program is the $600 million Kepler mission. Launched March 6, 2009, it searches for Earth-like planets outside our solar system, worlds that lie “in the habitable zone of...
by John Cronin | May 18, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Law & Policy, Technology, Water
Technological innovations that eliminate invasive aquatic species and pathogens from ship ballast water are spurring the growth of a multi-billion dollar industry. Ballast — water pumped into holds to balance and stabilize ships, sometimes by the millions of...
by Lauren Birney | May 15, 2013 | Economics, Law & Policy, Technology
By Dr. Lauren Birney and Dr. Jonathan Hill STEM — K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — is fundamental to the training of a technological workforce, the innovations environmental problems demand, and the competitive advantage the...
by Helane Levine-Keating | May 13, 2013 | Ecology
The Hudson River holds a special place in our collective heart here at EarthDesk. It is just down the road from Pace Academy World Headquarters in Pleasantville, NY, we all live within its watershed, and our education and research programs touch it at every turn. Dr....
by David Cassuto | May 9, 2013 | Animal Welfare
(x-post from Animal Blawg) There’s a story about a Canadian farmer who won a $100 million tax-free, lump sum payment in the Canadian lottery. When asked what he would do with the money, he replied “I guess I’ll just keep farming until the money’s gone.” Now, let’s...
by Emma Weiss '17 & Michael Finewood PhD | May 7, 2013 | General
Four months ago, a dozen Pace University students and two professors embarked on a journey, aiming to understand the forces imperiling sea turtles on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja peninsula and make a film about efforts to mesh turtle conservation with the...
by John Cronin | May 4, 2013 | Economics, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
Can water have economic integrity? A team of students from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business believe so and have called for an amendment to the Federal Clean Water Act that would add the term “economic” to the law’s primary objective “to restore...