NYPrize: Building Community Microgrids in New York
By Lauren Baron Student Expert Pace Energy and Climate Center Pace Law School EarthDesk welcomes Lauren Bacon of Pace Law School and the Pace Energy and Climate Center. Her post also appeared on the Center’s blog on January 27. With his $40 million dollar...
Water Problems, Water Problems Everywhere . . .
All water is local. For that reason, we do not see the hundreds of headlines about shortages, contamination and related issues that are daily spread across news sites such as The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, the Times News of Twins Falls Idaho, the Cape Coral...
From Remote Generation to Trigeneration
By John R. Nolon Editor’s Note: John R. Nolon, a Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, and counsel to the Law School’s Land Use Law Center, is a renowned pioneer in sustainable land use policy. Here he explains how local zoning can embrace...
Abandoned, Polluting, and Costly: Are the Gas Wells of New York’s Past a Glimpse into Its Future?
By Tom Wilber Editor’s Note: Tom Wilber regularly contributes posts about shale gas and fracking to EarthDesk. This post also appears on his excellent blog Shale Gas Review. More on Tom follows. — John Cronin The debate over natural gas development in New...
A Search for Water Comes to a Close
Today was a sad day for science. NASA formally announced it is ending its search for Earth-like planets with the Kepler Space Telescope, which is to say its search for liquid water outside our solar system. I reported on the ailing craft in the May 13 EarthDesk, and...
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.