Into the World of India
Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace ’16, is a political science major studying in India under a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Kiefer led the community energy team in the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic during the spring 2015 semester. Ben Gilman, a...
Out of the Public Eye, the Global Economic Community Plans for Environmental Disruption
The global water crisis and climate change receive equal billing with unemployment and cyber security in the World Economic Forum report Global Risks 2015: As last year, concerns about environmental and economic risks remain, in particular around failure of...
Ebola Isn’t About Bodily Fluids; It’s About Poverty, Lack of Infrastructure and Environmental Destruction
The Ebola story has much in common with global environmental catastrophes such as the water crisis, food insecurity, and deforestation — “the terrorism of poverty,” is how Harvard Professor Paul Farmer characterized the crisis in a recent Washington...
China on the Verge of Exterminating Its Sturgeon
Despite years of warnings from marine scientists, the Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, may be the first of 26 subspecies of sturgeon worldwide to face extinction. Damming, pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction are the causes. According to the Chinese...
Names of Nigeria’s Kidnapped Girls Reconsidered
The following replaces and significantly updates a post from earlier today. The kidnapping of hundreds of school girls by terrorist group Boko Haram is the most recent chapter in the enduring tragedy that is Nigeria. The story has focused world attention on the...
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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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.