by EarthDesk | Jun 18, 2013 | Climate Change, Energy, Law & Policy
By Karl Coplan Karl Coplan is a professor of law at Pace Law School and co-director of its Environmental Litigation Clinic. Karl regularly cycles and paddles between his home on the west side of the Hudson River and his law school office in White Plains, east of the...
by fmarchese | Jun 16, 2013 | Ecology, General, Pollution
Dr. Francis Marchese is Professor of Computer Science at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and a Faculty Scholar with the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. Find more information about Dr. Marchese...
by EarthDesk | Jun 16, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
xkcd is the webcomic creation of Randall Munroe. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License
by John Cronin | Jun 14, 2013 | Economics, General, Law & Policy, Pollution, Technology, Water
There is little disagreement about the dire condition of our aging water infrastructure. And there is just as little being done about it. “The current rate of replacement for aging collection and distribution systems nationwide is less than 1 percent for most...
by EarthDesk | Jun 12, 2013 | Climate Change, Ecology, Pollution, Sustainability, Water
Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene. Human activities such as...
by John Cronin | Jun 10, 2013 | General
I wondered when the fecklessness of the secrecy-obsessed Obama administration would manifest itself in the environmental arena. Enter Richard Windsor. Richard Windsor is former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, or at least he was her secret email alias. On June 4, the...
by EarthDesk | Jun 9, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
Thanks to JD Cronin About Randall; Randall in the NY Times
by John Cronin | Jun 7, 2013 | Climate Change, Economics, General, International, Pollution, Sustainability, Water
The Challenge of Transboundary Waters. “Water security” may not be common to the American lexicon, but to the US intelligence community, the United Nations, Asia, Africa and international organizations concerned with health, environment and human...
by EarthDesk | Jun 6, 2013 | International, Law & Policy, Recreation
Gill Buckle is an EarthDesk reader who commented on Caroline Craig’s report on Taksim Gezi Park after his return from Istanbul, Turkey. We asked him to tell us what he saw. Below is his report. Thanks, Gill! We were staying at the Titanic Hotel close to the park...