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Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database

Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database

The database is designed to expand in real time as the community surrounding the watershed continues to unearth historical information about the Saw Kill.

Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database

Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database
Community members and Bard staff and students taking Saw Kill water samples at the Annandale Bridge, 2016. Photo by Laurie Husted
On Tuesday, February 24, at 7 pm the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities at Bard College is presenting the first ever Saw Kill Watershed Community Database, a publicly accessible data tool housing datasets developed by community members, researchers, and Bard faculty and students since the late 1800s. Funded in part by the Hudson River Foundation, Bard Community Sciences Lab, and Hudson River Estuary Program of the DEC, the database is designed to expand in real time as the community surrounding the watershed continues to unearth historical information about the Saw Kill, and conducts community sciences in the watershed with efforts such as ongoing sampling.

The database will be launched at a celebration held at the Elmendorph Inn at 7562 N. Broadway, Red Hook, NY, at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 24. The event is free and open to the public, with refreshments provided.

“This project is like a love letter from Bard to the community we have been part of and served for over 100 years,” said Elias Dueker, associate professor of Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard. “Students, faculty, and staff are working side by side with community leaders to make the database as comprehensive as possible. We have found information in people’s closets, basements, paper files, art, photos, and stories. I don’t think there is anything like this project across the country, but I hope we can inspire other communities to rediscover how much they already know and study about their watersheds—just how much information is waiting there to help them step up to environmental challenges that seem at emergency-level today.”

The project—a collaboration between the Center for Experimental Humanities, Bard Biology and Environmental Studies, and community groups including the Saw Kill Watershed Community, Riverkeeper, and Hudson River Watershed Alliance—represents over 50 years of Bard's commitment in nurturing community efforts to provide meaningful stewardship of the Saw Kill Watershed, which provides drinking water and recreation for both Bard and the surrounding region. By compiling all available information and ongoing environmental research about the watershed in one accessible repository, the project is intended to serve as a versatile resource: as a teaching tool for local schools, for new residents wanting to learn about their surroundings, for community members who may have concerns about what they are observing in the watershed, and to provide meaningful data required to inform policy decisions that would affect the Saw Kill and its communities. For more information, please visit: cesh.bard.edu/csl/saw-kill-monitoring-program


Post Date: 02-24-2026
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Research by Bard Professor Gidon Eshel Featured in the New York Times

The article explored whether grass-fed beef was better for climate than grain-fed.

Research by Bard Professor Gidon Eshel Featured in the New York Times

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Gidon Eshel, research professor of environmental and urban studies at Bard.
A study led by Gidon Eshel, research professor of environmental and urban studies at Bard College, was featured in the New York Times in an article exploring whether grass-fed beef was better for climate. The study, published last March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that grass-fed beef did not hold a carbon emissions benefit compared to grain-fed beef. While grazing can store carbon in the soil, the study showed that this did not outweigh the methane that cows produce. “We wanted to see exactly how the numbers add up,” Eshel told the Times. “The bottom line answer is that they mostly don’t.”

Students in all divisions of Bard College can concentrate in Environmental Studies. The program is based on the conviction that our planet’s most urgent problems—including climate change, biodiversity loss, and the inequities of our built environments—call for holistic knowledge of both human and natural systems. The curriculum offers a grounding in core topics in environmental studies alongside cross-listed courses on topics from nature writing to urban geography, from food systems to contemporary Indigenous art, and from planetary thinking to local community engagement.
Read more in the New York Times

Post Date: 01-13-2026
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Bard Earns Two Awards in Sustainability

The College earned a STARS Gold rating and the MBA in sustainability was ranked the best green MBA by the Princeton Review.

Bard Earns Two Awards in Sustainability

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Bard College has recently been recognized for its commitment to sustainability by two organizations. This July, the College earned a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS). This nationwide group ranks colleges based on all aspects of sustainability on their campuses, from academic buildings to dining and events planning. Bard’s report included its participation in the Race 2 Zero Waste food scrap conservation program, where it placed first in the food organics Small College category.

Bard’s MBA in sustainability was also ranked the best green MBA by the Princeton Review for the fifth year in a row. The list is based on student ratings of how well their MBA “prepares them to address environmental, sustainability, and responsibility issues in their careers.” Bard’s MBA is based in New York City and utilizes a hybrid curriculum to prepare students for critical social and environmental challenges. “At a time when clean energy and climate change action, organizational justice, reducing plastics and toxic pollution, and enhancing the planet’s biodiversity are all under political attack, Bard remains the leading MBA focused on embedding sustainability as simply good business,” said MBA Director Dr. Eban Goodstein.
Bard Ranked Best Green MBA for 2025

Post Date: 08-13-2025

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October 2013

10-24-2013
Award-Winning Author and NYU Performance Studies Professor Tavia Nyong’o to Speak at Bard<br />
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.
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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
Betting the Farm: Bard College Farm Makes Its Mark on Campus and in the Hudson Valley
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-16-2013
Renowned Writer and Environmental Activist Bill McKibben Joins Bard Center for Environmental Policy Advisory Board<br />
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.”
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
10-15-2013
Bard Biologist Felicia Keesing on What's to Blame for Lyme Disease Prevalence<br />
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)
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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.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-02-2013
The Bard College Farm Is Home to the Only Cranberry Bog in the Hudson Valley
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.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
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