How Did Your Senators and Representative Rate?
Don’t Presume You Know Your Rep’s Environmental Voting Record. NY’s Schumer and Gillibrand Shine; Hudson Valley Dem Sean Patrick Maloney Disappoints. Washington, DC based League of Conservation Voters has released its 2013 National Environmental...
Water Future by David Fitzsimmons
«« »» David Fitzsimmons is a cartoonist, humor columnist and blogger for the Arizona Daily Star, Fitz is syndicated to more than 700 news publications. A Pulitzer finalist in 1988, his award-winning cartoons have drawn both fire and praise. Fitzsimmons also entertains...
The Silence of the Swans
By Susan Fox Rogers NY Senate Bill S.6589 Calls for a Two-Year Moratorium on the State’s Mute Swan Slaughter Susan Fox Rogers is an author, educator, adventurer and environmentalist. This post appears on her online journal. More about Susan and her work at the...
Hudson Highlands Valentine 2014 by Russell Cusick
Ed. Note: Pictured is my village of Cold Spring, where the Hudson River estuary cleaves the Appalachians, the only place that mountain chain is broken at sea level. This winter, the shore is indistinguishable from the river, the land and water merging in one broad...
The Sochi Olympics: The Media Discover There’s Bad Water on the Planet
The image on the left of bad hotel water, tweeted from the Sochi Olympics by Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune, has been retweeted 3,822 times and favorited 1,395 times, as of this writing. It was reposted in countless blogs and Facebook pages, and reprinted in...
February 14 – 17. Great Backyard Bird Count
Pace Professor Peggy Minnis writes EarthDesk: The Great Backyard Bird Count kicks off today, February 14. It is a great way to become aware of yoiur surroundings, begin identifying birds and provide the Cornell Ornithology Lab with a massive amount of data. There...
Water Shortages in CA Linked to Fracking. Time for Sustainable Energy
Among the many good reasons to not endorse fracking is its depletion of water needed for drinking. Marcellus shale fracking uses 4.5 to 5.6 gallons of fresh water per well — water lost for drinking. (Grist.org) And there are approximately 82,000 wells operating...
West Virginia Water by Jeff Darcy
One month after the spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) into the Elk River in Charleston, WV by Freedom Industries (EarthDesk, January 14, January 16, January 18), the reappearance of the telltale “licorice smell” and complaints of toxic symptoms...
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.