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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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December 2014

12-24-2014
Bard MBA candidate Simon Fischweicher writes about how 3-D printing could make manufacturing more sustainable in the future.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |
12-10-2014
"Zangmu ... underscores the limited channels of cooperation that exist between India and China to govern the rivers they share," writes Professor of Political Studies Sanjib Baruah.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-08-2014
Center for Environmental Policy Hosts C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop<br />
Over the weekend of December 5–7, Bard College hosted the fourth annual Northeast regional C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop. Directed by Eban S. Goodstein, director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability, the three-day workshop offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business. The event drew 35 participants this year with some coming from as far away as Atlanta and Chicago. The weekend included sessions on how to raise money, pitch an idea, and build a professional network.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
12-02-2014
Bard Is "One Big Think Tank": Carl Amritt '17 Combines Academics and Community Engagement<br />
As a sophomore, Carl Amritt has already carved out a distinct place of his own in the Bard community. Carl was involved in student government in middle and high school in his native West Palm Beach, Florida. Now he's brought his passion for politics to his academic work in Political Studies and Environmental and Urban Studies. He's also become a leader in Bard student government, campus sustainability efforts, and the college's voting initiative.
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Credit: Photo by Joe Fitzgerald '18
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Admission,Division of Social Studies,Economics,Environmental/Sustainability,Inclusive Excellence,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

November 2014

11-24-2014
Should governments or corporations take responsibility for sustainable business? Bard MBA faculty Hunter Lovins led a spirited debate on "The Future Corporation."
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Credit: Photo by Joe Fitzgerald '18
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |
11-09-2014
At the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., Jeniffer Hanna CEP '15 is working to mobilize the U.S. Latino population, which is disproportionately affected by climate change.
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Credit: Photo by Joe Fitzgerald '18
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Environmental/Sustainability,Inclusive Excellence | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |

October 2014

10-27-2014
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Credit: Photo by Joe Fitzgerald '18
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-24-2014
Hudsonia Executive Director and Bard Alumnus Erik Kiviat ’76 Wins Prestigious Higher Education Environmental Award<br />
The Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities has awarded its Great Work Award in honor of Thomas Berry this year to Erik Kiviat ’76, executive director and cofounder of Hudsonia, a not-for-profit institute for research, education, and technical assistance in the environmental sciences based at the Bard College Field Station on the Hudson River. A certified wetland scientist, Kiviat has more than 45 years’ experience with natural history and environmental issues—especially those related to rare native species as well as invasive nonnative species—in the Northeast, and across North America, Europe, and Africa.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
10-17-2014
One-third of food is lost or wasted, writes Bard alumna Elizabeth Royte, but producers and consumers can take steps to change that.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-13-2014
Bard MBA in Sustainability faculty Hunter Lovins describes an emerging economic narrative that challenges the notion that possessions equal prosperity.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Economics,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |
10-02-2014
Center for Environmental Policy Students Awarded Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency<br />
Bard College has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) People, Prosperity, and Planet (P3) Phase 1 Award Program to support a Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) graduate students’ project. The grant, for a project titled “The Integrated Use of Road Salt Management and Application Techniques,” was awarded in a national competition to a Bard CEP team of graduate students for an innovative and sustainable design to help solve one of today’s complex environmental problems.
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |

September 2014

09-29-2014
Bard has received a STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, recognizing the college's sustainability initiatives.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-23-2014
Bard College Programs Participate in the People's Climate March
Bard College and its affiliated programs were well represented at the People's Climate March in New York City on Sunday, September 21. More than 100 faculty, staff, and students participated from Bard College in Annandale, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, the Bard MBA in Sustainability, and the Bard High School Early Colleges. The Bard Office of Sustainability, Environmental and Urban Studies Program, and student-run EcoReps and Environmental Collective were instrumental in organizing buses from Bard College, with transportation funding provided by the People's Climate March and the Sierra Club. Bard MBA offered a viewing area from their 6th Avenue space overlooking the march route, which was decorated with large banners hanging from the upper-story windows.

Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Bard Undergraduate Programs,BHSECs,Center for Civic Engagement |
09-05-2014
Bard's Landscape and Arboretum Program and N.Y. Botanical Garden Offer Courses<br />
The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College and the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) are offering noncredit continuing education classes on gardening at Bard College this fall. Open to the public, these classes feature some of the top names in the horticulture industry and cover a wide array of topics.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-03-2014
What distinguishes successful sustainability leaders and their companies from their competitors? Jeana Wirtenberg's book Building a Culture for Sustainability provides answers.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

August 2014

08-28-2014
Hunter Lovins writes that, contrary to popular conceptions, there is evidence that properly managing grazing animals can counter climate change by restoring soil and enhancing biodiversity.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |
08-18-2014
"The Gulf between the truth about G.M.O.s and what people say about them keeps growing wider," writes Michael Specter.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
08-06-2014
Research Professor Gidon Eshel's new study shows that the environmental impact of raising beef is 10 times that of raising other livestock.

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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
08-01-2014
As the world's worst Ebola epidemic yet spreads through western Africa, Professor Specter calls for an improved global system to address future health disasters.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Division of Social Studies,Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs,Wellness | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |

July 2014

07-25-2014
New research by Bard professor Gidon Eshel and colleagues indicates that beef production has a much greater environmental impact than pork or poultry.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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