Sustainability News by Date
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October 2013
10-24-2013
On Thursday, November 14, Tavia Nyong’o—associate professor of performance studies at New York University and Errol Hill Award winner for best book in African American theatre and performance studies—will speak at Bard College. Nyong’o’s talk, “Epistemology of the Lifeboat: Life of Pi and Queer Fabulation,” is being presented by Bard’s Environmental and Urban Studies Program, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Language and Literature Division, with funding from a Bard College, Mellon-supported course development award. The talk takes place at 4:30 p.m. in the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation Room 103 and is free and open to the public.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability,Film,Inclusive Excellence,Theater | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability,Film,Inclusive Excellence,Theater | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-23-2013
The Bard Farm's "genial mastermind" John-Paul Sliva talks with Edible Hudson Valley about community outreach, institutional farming, and running the Hudson Valley's only cranberry bog.
Meta: Type(s): Staff | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Staff | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-23-2013
Jennifer Phillips discusses how farms can shift to a pasture model, preventing erosion and sequestering carbon in the process.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
10-21-2013
Michael Specter looks at science denialism and argues that the world needs scientific progress now more than ever.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-21-2013
Where privatization and charity fail, investments in watershed services can solve the global water crisis, writes CEP alumna Karen Corey.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
10-17-2013
Norway boasts 63,000 miles of fjords, bays, and islands. Professor Klinkenborg ventures into this remarkable landscape, the most complex coastline on the planet.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-16-2013
Larissa Phillips examines the social, environmental, and parenting implications of hunting for food.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-16-2013
Author and climate leader Bill McKibben has joined the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP), an innovative graduate program at Bard that offers master of science degrees in environmental policy and in climate science and policy. McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time magazine called him “the planet’s best green journalist,” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.”
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
10-15-2013
Deer are often blamed for the spread of Lyme disease, but researchers now point to the increase in white-footed mice and the decline of their natural predator, the red fox. “It is an animal weed,” says Dr. Keesing of the white-footed mice. “Anything that causes a surge in the population of these mice is something to watch.” (Scientific American)
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-14-2013
The long-term survival of monarch butterflies may be in doubt, writes Verlyn Klinkenborg, due to human threats to their habitat and food supply.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-02-2013
When the Bard College Farm members saw the need for a cash crop, they turned to cranberries. A native plant that's undercultivated in this area, the farm has been using its unique bog for both education and economics.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
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