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We Are Not All Environmentalists, Nor Must We Be. A Post-Election Reflection

by John Cronin | Nov 17, 2016 | Homelessness, Law & Policy, Poverty

In the difficult years ahead, environmental organizations should address the social inequities challenging millions of Americans — a founding principle of American environmentalism.

Study: Food Insecurity Affects 1 in 7 Americans, Increases Health Costs by $160 Billion

by John Cronin | Nov 27, 2015 | Economics, Health, Human Sustainability, Poverty, Sustainability

Last year, hunger and food insecurity increased America’s health costs by $160 billion, more than 1/3 the U.S. deficit, and 48 million Americans, one in seven, lived in food insecure households in 2014, according to the global 2016 Hunger Report by Bread for the World Institute.

Yonatan Zunger: Water and Food, not Oil and Religion, Driving Middle East Violence

by Guest Contributor | Nov 19, 2015 | Climate Change, Human Sustainability, International, Poverty, Water

In the wake of the Paris massacre by Da’esh, Yonatan Zunger, chief architect at Google+, wrote that religion and oil “have little or nothing to do with what we’re seeing.” Rather, dwindling water, compounded by climate change, is “one...

American Environmentalism Should Embrace the Cause of Homelessness

by John Cronin | Oct 9, 2015 | Environmental Justice, Homelessness, Human Sustainability, Poverty

IN ENVIRONMENTALISM, we believe all people deserve to live in a healthy environment. When we educate about climate change, for instance, we warn of the dire physical and economic consequences that could be visited upon people, homes and communities, here and abroad,...

Pope Francis Points the World’s Attention to Its Largest Environmental Problem: Poverty

by John Cronin | Sep 25, 2015 | Ecology, Environmental Justice, Human Sustainability, Pollution, Poverty, Sustainability

Environmentalism should advocate for the human cause with the same ferocity it advocates for nature’s cause. CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTALISM properly asserts environmental problems impose the most suffering on the poor. It is less ready to equate the crisis...

What We Can Learn From India

by Kiefer Kofman | Sep 9, 2015 | Economics, General, Government, Human Sustainability, International, Into the World of India ~ Kiefer Kofman, Pace '16, Law & Policy, Poverty, Sustainability

Ed. Note: Kiefer Kofman, Pace ’16, is a political science major and the former head of the Community Energy Team at the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. He spent the summer studying in India under a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Kiefer’s...

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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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