Sustainability News by Date
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September 2018
09-28-2018
Fog transports microbes over long distances and deposits them in new environments, according to the new study.
Meta: Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities |
Meta: Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities |
09-25-2018
Meta: Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities |
09-22-2018
Goats have worked summers since 2016 at Bard’s Blithewood Estate, preserving the scenic view by eating invasive weeds on the uneven slope.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-07-2018
“The focus of this event, regional agriculture, is of great immediacy to the Hudson Valley and surrounding communities, as well as to other areas within 150 miles of any North American urban center, potentially encompassing about 15 percent of the high-quality cropland in North America,” says Gidon Eshel, research professor of physics at Bard College and Agriculture Salon Series program curator. “The speakers, recognized leaders in their respective fields, all have interesting, unique angles on the issue. Perspectives they will bring to bear on the problem include legal, conservation/land access, financial/monetary, economic, ecological, environmental, racial/gender, and equality/justice. This one-day event looks to promote a vigorous and productive dialogue on local agriculture.”
In addition to Eshel, speakers include:
Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development and professor of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology, Columbia University; member, National Academy of Sciences; and 2007 MacArthur Fellow
David Gould, head of investor relations, Amerra Capital
Tamar Haspel, food and science journalist; author of the Washington Post monthly column “Unearthed”; and Cape Cod oyster farmer
Leah Penniman, codirector and program manager, Soul Fire Farm; author, Farming While Black
Eric Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, University of Chicago; member, Committee on International Relations
Steve Rosenberg, senior vice president and executive director, Scenic Hudson Land Trust; board member, Land Trust Alliance
Steffen Schneider, director of farming operations, Hawthorne Valley Farm; senior director, Institute for Mindful Agriculture; president, Biodynamic Association of North America
Located on River Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, Montgomery Place, a 380-acre estate adjacent to the main Bard College campus and overlooking the Hudson River, is a designated National Historic Landmark set amid rolling lawns, woodlands, and gardens, against the spectacular backdrop of the Catskill Mountains. Renowned architects, landscape designers, and horticulturists worked to create an elegant and inspiring country estate consisting of a mansion, farm, orchards, farmhouse, and other buildings. The Montgomery Place estate was owned by members of the Livingston family from 1802 until the 1980s. In 1986, Livingston heir John Dennis Delafield transferred the estate to Historic Hudson Valley, in whose hands it remained until 2016, when Bard College acquired the property. For more information, visit bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Photo: Photo: Chris Kendall '82
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Community Events,Environmental/Sustainability,Montgomery Place Series | Institutes(s): Montgomery Place Campus |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Community Events,Environmental/Sustainability,Montgomery Place Series | Institutes(s): Montgomery Place Campus |
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