Environmental Visionary Gus Speth Coming to the Environmental Consortium, November 8, 9
From adviser to President Bill Clinton, to dean of the Yale University School of Forestry, to jail time for civil disobedience at the White House, James Gustave Speth has blazed a trail like no other. He is a creative and provocative thinker who will enliven even the...
Are the Tropics the New Harbinger of Radical Climate Change?
By Douglas Fischer The Daily Climate Editor’s Note: A lone polar bear squeezed onto a tiny ice floe, the “North Pole” jutting from a pond of water, Santa Claus in swim fins – it is easy to make the Arctic the poster child for climate change, perhaps too easy. A...
Sturgeon Moon
Earlier this evening, I laid my tools on the cabin top of the boat on which I was working, and settled-in to watch the rust red moon crawl to the shoulders of the Hudson Highlands. Once there, it continued upward, as if loosed from the grip of gravity, and floated...
Trip to the Arctic Refuge Reveals How Far Oil Industry Will Go To Drill Pristine Landscapes
By Frances Beinecke President, Natural Resources Defense Council Editor’s Note: The Arctic is in the crosshairs as never before (EarthDesk, August 8). Its melting ice is yielding to new sea lanes, the Obama administration is asserting America’s right to...
Transboundary Water Wars: Florida vs. Georgia
In much of the world, conflicts over transboundary waters are international in nature (see EarthDesk July 17, July 13, and June 17). Here in the US, we have a long history of conflicts over waters that transcend state boundaries. Best known are those fought over...
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.