Sustainability News by Date
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May 2014
05-26-2014
Tom O'Dowd, executive administrator in Bard's Environmental and Urban Studies Program, urges readers to explore unexpected edible plants this season in their own backyards.
Meta: Type(s): Staff | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Staff | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
05-07-2014
The loss of large mammals from African savannas can have unexpected and often undesirable consequences for the people and livestock that depend on them, according to a new study published in the journal BioScience. Scientists from Bard College and the University of California, Davis, experimentally removed large grazing mammals from plots of savanna land in Kenya where both livestock and wildlife are abundant. That removal set in motion a cascade of consequences. “The results of this long-term study show that preserving large mammals in African savannas can be a win-win for conservation and for human welfare,” says lead author Felicia Keesing, a biology professor at Bard.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
05-06-2014
Bard College finished in the top ten for electricity reduction in Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) 2014, a contest in which more than 265,000 students at more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada worked to conserve electricity and water. Students collectively saved over 2.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and nearly 476,000 gallons of water in this year’s contest.
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
05-01-2014
The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded Bard College a four-year, $400,000 Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment grant to increase and enhance the interdisciplinary study of environmental and sustainability issues in Asia across the undergraduate curricula at Bard’s campuses at Annandale-on-Hudson and Simon’s Rock, and in the M.S. programs at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard College at Simon's Rock,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard College at Simon's Rock,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
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