Report: A “New Normal” Needed to Protect Insurance Companies from Climate Change
Think Tank Recommends Industry Climate Activism. The world’s leading insurance think tank is calling for a new definition of normal weather conditions because of the impacts of climate change and ocean warming on the insurance industry. In its thirty-page...
Water Infrastructure and the White House
An Update from Alexandra Dapolito Dunn On June 14, we reported on the financial crisis faced by communities in need of water infrastructure repair and replacement. On July 1, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) convened a Conference on Financing the...
The 007 Water Campaign: Talkin’ the Talk & Walkin’ the Walk
How to communicate the importance of an everyday thing like water? That was the puzzle Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies faced when planning its 007 Campaign to dramatize the national and global water crisis. We organized the Walk for World Water, where...
Survival of the Fittest
By Neil S. Braun Neil S. Braun is dean of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University where he also serves on the Operating Committee of the university. An attorney, Dean Braun has had an extensive career in business and the entertainment industry. In 2010, he...
Water in the Anthropocene
Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene. Human activities such as...
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.