People in the Third World by Paul Fitzgerald
«« »» From cartoonist Paul Fitzgerald’s website: I’ve been scratching ‘Polyp’ political cartoons since 1980 (for Leeds Student Newspaper) and took it up full time in the 90’s, having been a care worker before then. New Internationalist...
Art for the People’s Climate March
This week’s EarthDesk Sunday features poster art created for today’s People’s Climate March. For more information about some of the art and artists visit the websites Creative Resistance and Just Seeds.
Poisoning the Poor by Pat Bagley
EarthDesk is pleased to return after a brief summer hiatus. In the coming year, we will focus special attention on members of our own species whose sustainability is challenged daily by poverty, food insecurity, illness, homelessness and bigotry. After all, if we...
Sturgeon Moon 2014
Many are calling tonight’s full moon a “super moon.” More important, it is a Sturgeon Moon, as occurs each August. In honor of its appearance coinciding with EarthDesk Sunday, below is a reprise of last year’s post about the same occasion....
Toxic Algae Horror in Ohio by Nate Beeler
«« »» Here is Nate Beeler’s profile from the The Columbus Dispatch: Nate Beeler, the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Dispatch, has earned the reputation of being both a top-flight artist and first-rate journalist. Formerly the cartoonist for 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.
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.