29 of Arctic 30 Released on Bail. Media Ignore the Real Story: The New Cold War
The global, political drama behind the Greenpeace protest at the Gazprom oil platform (EarthDesk, October 2) is being obscured by the news media’s longstanding fascination with cartoonish Russian and Soviet officials. Think Vladimir Putin shirtless, Leonid...
Can Disaster Capitalism Sell Climate Change?
Did climate change cause Typhoon Haiyan? Time Magazine says no. Australia’s Sidney Morning Herald says yes. The UK’s Guardian says maybe. So goes the news media standoff on climate and superstorms. Duracell is less ambivalent. “There will be more...
2013 Seventh of Top Ten Warmest Years — World Metereological Organization
Editor’s Note: The year 2013 is currently tied with 2003 as seventh of the top ten warmest years, according to a provisional report issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to coincide with COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Typhoon Haiyan: A Disaster of Nature, Pollution or Poverty?
Barely had Typhoon Haiyan moved on from its Philippines landfall before its origins were blamed on climate change. That nation’s climate representative, Yeb Sano, made an agonizing plea and pledged a hunger strike at COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on...
From Remote Generation to Trigeneration
By John R. Nolon Editor’s Note: John R. Nolon, a Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, and counsel to the Law School’s Land Use Law Center, is a renowned pioneer in sustainable land use policy. Here he explains how local zoning can embrace...
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.
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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.