What We Can Learn From India
Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace '16, is a political science major and the former head of the Community Energy Team at the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. He spent the summer studying in India under a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Kiefer's first...
Mt. McKinley’s New Name By Jeff Darcy
«« »» Jeff Darcy is an editorial cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His cartoons have also appeared in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. You can see more of Jeff's work at PoliticalCartoons.com.
Environmental Steward or Cold Warrior? Obama’s Arctic Escalation
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ALASKA TRIP, to focus public attention on climate change, was notable for more than his renaming of Mt. McKinley to Denali, a hyped-up meet-up with reality show personality Bear Grylls, and a solo hike (with the Secret Service and press) to melting...
NatGeo, Natural Wonders & Internal Combustion
THE PLACID BEAUTY of the small Hudson River Valley village where I live is a favorite of motorcyclists, lots of motorcyclists. Periodically, they rev their engines loud and long. I do not know why. Perhaps all that placidity gets tedious. Happily for me, National...
The Tragedy of Indian Farmers Under Neoliberalism
40,000 Farmers Have Committed Suicide Since 2000 Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace '16, is a political science major and the former head of the Community Energy Team at the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. He spent the summer studying in India under a Benjamin A. Gilman...
Projecting Change at the Empire State Building by Racing Extinction
Manta rays, 40 stories high, blue whales swimming hundreds of feet above the city streets -- the vision of Academy Award® winning, Racing Extinction director Louie Psihoyos and world-renowned visual artist Travis Threlkel was projected on the Empire State Building on...
Candidate Clinton Parts with Secretary Clinton on Arctic Oil Drilling
FOLLOWING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S final approval of Royal Dutch Shell's Arctic oil drilling, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton parted ways with her own advocacy of the administration's long-established Arctic policy. She did so in a 92 character...
Erie County, NY Enacts Microbead Ban
Legislator Patrick B. Burke: "I knew I had to do something." MICROBEADS are spherical particles of polyethylene present in thousands of personal care products -- toothpastes, shampoos, lotions, exfoliating skin scrubs and more. Some products proudly display the words...
Abandoned Mines by Pat Bagley
Also see EarthDesk, August 11, EPA Spills Sludge in the Animas River. «« »» Patrick "Pat" Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah. His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian of...
EPA Spills Toxic Sludge into the Animas River: Will the Agency Apply Its Enforcement Policy to Itself?
LAST WEDNESDAY, a team working for EPA Region 8 caused a spill of 3 million gallons of yellow sludge contaminated with toxic metals from the Gold King Mine north of Silverton, Colorado into Cement Creek, a tributary to the Animas River. By Sunday, New Mexico was on...
Raw Sewage and Rio ’16 by Dave Granlund
Ed Note: The World Health Organization has demanded testing of all water venues for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro following an Associated Press investigation that revealed "athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so...
India’s Cultural Barrier to Change
Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace '16, is a political science major and the former head of the Community Energy Team at the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. He is studying in India under a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. His first post, Into the World of...