The Energy-Water Collision Ahead
But it will not be averted by defining water as just another component of energy production. No matter where you live in the U.S. – desert or coast, city or farm – there is a better than 95% chance your electricity comes from water. How so, you might ask, if...
Survival of the Fittest
By Neil S. Braun Neil S. Braun is dean of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University where he also serves on the Operating Committee of the university. An attorney, Dean Braun has had an extensive career in business and the entertainment industry. In 2010, he...
Are “Ethically Chic” Companies Really Ethical?
By Noushi Rahman How do companies such as American Apparel, Apple, Starbucks, Timberland, Tom’s of Maine, and Trader Joe’s acquire such a pro-sustainability image? I had an unarticulated notion in my head that many of these so-called ethical companies were...
Where You Stand Depends On Where You Frack
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...
Marine Invasives Spawn Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
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...
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.