Global Water Security: Protecting Ecosystems, Protecting People
By Charles J. Vörösmarty and Claudia Pahl-Wostl Editor’s Note: The world water crisis demands more than the very models that are now creating national water crises in the developed world. It requires the interdisciplinary participation and expertise “of...
Safe Drinking Water, Political Will and Rule of Law: The Global Challenge
By John Oldfield Editor’s Note: John Oldfield, CEO of WASH Advocates, reminds us universal safe drinking water requires the political will of leaders globally, and political will is a function of an expectant and educated citizenry. That is not as obvious as it...
Dr. James Hansen and the Nuclear Briar Patch
Over at Dot Earth, my colleague Andrew Revkin has been carefully walking his readers through the nuclear power briar patch ever growing inside the American environmental movement. Looming large is Dr. James Hansen, former NASA climate scientist who used his...
The Energy-Water Collision Ahead
But it will not be averted by defining water as just another component of energy production. No matter where you live in the U.S. – desert or coast, city or farm – there is a better than 95% chance your electricity comes from water. How so, you might ask, if...
CAFOs 101
First in a Series about Animals, Agriculture and the Environment. What is a CAFO? First, let’s parse. A CAFO is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. Some call it a Confined Animal Feeding Operation. You are already getting the idea. “Feeding operation”...
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.