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Follow-Up Q&A With JeffHK About His Video “30 Days Timelapse at Sea”

by exporter | Sep 27, 2017 | Creativity, Oceans, VIdeos

Excerpts from our email exchange with JeffHK about his astonishing video, “30 Days Timelapse at Sea,” which appeared here on September 24. We talked as well about his life at sea where, Jeff says, “The galaxy almost seems like CGI straight from a fictional sci-fi movie.”

Wildlife Collision App Records Roadkill

by Nadya Hall | Jun 19, 2014 | Animal Welfare, Creativity, Ecology, Land Use

Nadya Hall is a Pace University student, member of Pace Academy’s Environmental Policy Clinic and Pace Academy summer intern. This post also appears at ePolicy, the Clinic’s blog. Recent Utah State University wildlife biology graduate and Quinney Fellow,...

Students Enter Public Arena Through Pace Academy’s Environmental Policy Clinic

by John Cronin | Apr 10, 2014 | Animal Welfare, Creativity, Ecology, Education, Law & Policy, Sustainability

Undergraduates Tackle Energy, Food Justice, Invasive Species and Animal Torture Only seven weeks into the inaugural semester of the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic, an intensive program of professional advocacy training, twelve Pace University students are already...

Earth’s Land Mammals by Weight — by xkcd

by Guest Contributor | Mar 11, 2014 | Creativity, Ecology, Smart Thought

Note: This is such a brilliant piece, we are breaking with tradition and posting this xkcd comic today rather than wait until EarthDesk Sunday. — John Cronin «« »» xkcd is the webcomic creation of Randall Munroe, an extraordinarily popular web presence whom we...

The Human and the Environment: Bridging the Gap with Education and Service

by Carolyn Craig | Jan 3, 2014 | Creativity, Health, Higher Education, Smart Thought

Editor’s Note: A recurring theme here at EarthDesk, especially during this holiday season, is our duty to the other members of our specie. Caroline Craig offers her unique perspective — as a former environmental studies student, as research assistant for...

Brain Pickings

by John Cronin | Jan 1, 2014 | Creativity, Smart Thought

In a planet occupied now by seven billion inhabitants, I am amazed by the difference that one human being can make. — Professor Howard Gardner Harvard University Graduate School of Education I am exercising my editorial prerogative to start the new year with a...

EarthDesk, published regularly during the academic year, is the online journal of the Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (DCISE) at Pace University. John Cronin, editor.

Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.

Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.

Environmental Policy Clinic Team with Senator Terrence Murphy in Albany.

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.

Discussing oyster regulation with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper at Pace, NYC.

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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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.