NYPrize: Building Community Microgrids in New York
By Lauren Baron Student Expert Pace Energy and Climate Center Pace Law School EarthDesk welcomes Lauren Bacon of Pace Law School and the Pace Energy and Climate Center. Her post also appeared on the Center’s blog on January 27. With his $40 million dollar...
State Dept Sponsored Analysis of XL Pipeline Seems to Go Keystone’s Way
By Scott Dodd Editor, OnEarth Natural Resources Defense Council Scott Dodd is editor of OnEarth, the excellent print and online magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council. EarthDesk heartily recommends you follow OnEarth for top-notch analysis of breaking...
Governor Chris Christie: The Politics of Mean, of Name Calling, of Broken Promises
For Team Christie It Was Business as Usual to Call Fort Lee Mayor Sokolich “This Little Serbian,” Sierra Club’s Ken Tittle a “Rabid Partisan,” and Various Citizens “Idiots.” UPDATE – 9:30PM: Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has raised the...
Dismantling of Fishery Library ‘Like a Book Burning,’ Say Scientists
Government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Shuts Down ‘World Class’ Collection on Freshwater Science and Protection By Andrew Nikiforuk Editor’s Note: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aggressive advocacy for the Alberta tar sands...
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...
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.