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Upcoming Events

  • 2/06
    Friday
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

    Farm Apprenticeship Info Session 

    With Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund

    Friday, February 6, 2026
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
    Are you interested in farming and sustainable food systems? Are you looking for summer work and learning opportunities? If so please join us February 6th and learn more about this one month apprenticeship opportunity through the Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund.

    Contact: Rebecca Yoshino
    Phone: 518-653-6118
    E-mail: [email protected]

  • 2/08
    Sunday
    3:30 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Olin Auditorium
    The Nature of Nature: Biodiversity in the Hudson Valley.; Visit https://https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-hosts-panel-discussion-and-film-screening-about-biodiversity-in-the-hudson-valley-2026-01-29

    Nature of Nature: Biodiversity in the Hudson Valley

    Film Screening and Panel Discussion

    Sunday, February 8, 2026
    3:30 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Olin Auditorium
    An ode to the remarkable variety of life in the Hudson Valley, The Nature of Nature: Biodiversity in the Hudson Valley celebrates the living fabric of this unique landscape. From high elevation forests to the globally rare tidal marshes along the Hudson estuary, the 30-minute documentary film captures the beautiful, the complex, the familiar, and the unknown…guided by the plants, animals, and people that call the Hudson Valley home. Join us for a screening and panel discussion facilitated by biologist and producer of The Nature of Nature, Laura Heady from the Hudson River Estuary Program and Cornell University.

    The Nature of Nature was produced by Flicker Filmworks and the Hudson River Estuary Program with funding by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation through the New York State Environmental Protection Fund in partnership with NEIWPCC.
     

    Contact: Amy Parrella
    Phone: 845-758-7179
    E-mail: [email protected]

    Website: https://https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-hosts-panel-discussion-and-film-screening-about-biodiversity-in-the-hudson-valley-2026-01-29

Sustainability News

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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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Burpee Trial Garden Project at Montgomery Place Featured in the Daily Catch

The summer garden students will continue their work through August tending the plots, recording observations on iPads, and sharing their findings in real time with Burpee’s plant breeders. 

Burpee Trial Garden Project at Montgomery Place Featured in the Daily Catch

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Bard student Violet DiBiasio ’27. Photo by Emily Sachar, Courtesy of the Daily Catch
The Burpee Trial Garden, a seed test garden and horticultural research site at Bard’s Montgomery Place campus, has been featured in the Daily Catch. The garden, in its first season, is currently being tended to by three Bard students, Violet DiBiasio ’27, Max Frackman ’27, and Mikhal Terentiev ’26, who are undertaking horticultural research and hands-on scientific investigations with real-world applications in the Hudson Valley and beyond. “This project is helping Bard restore and revive the historic formal gardens at Montgomery Place, and help gardeners in the process,” Amy Parrella, Bard Arboretum director, told the Daily Catch. “Gardening has been proven to alleviate stress and have therapeutic and healing results. And this opportunity will help students to cultivate their passion for plants and inspire their commitment to nurture their environment.” Trial gardens measure how well a specific cultivar or variety will perform in a specific area or growing condition, and the garden at Bard is supported by a $1 million grant that is being paid over four years from the Burpee Foundation. The summer garden students will continue their work through August tending the plots, recording observations on iPads, and sharing their findings in real time with Burpee’s plant breeders. 

Further Reading:

https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-receives-1-million-grant-from-burpee-foundation-to-support-creation-of-trial-garden-at-montgomery-place-campus-2024-06-18
 
Read the Full Article in the Daily Catch

Post Date: 08-05-2025

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March 2020

03-27-2020
Bard Center for Environmental Policy Leads International Virtual Teach-In on Climate Solutions and Climate Justice, Tuesday April 7
On the evening of Tuesday, April 7, the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College (Bard CEP) will lead a virtual teach-in on climate solutions and climate justice, focusing on ambitious but feasible state and local solutions to help solve climate change by 2030. The teach-in—part of Bard CEP’s Solve Climate by 2030 (Solve Climate) project—features 50 university-led webinars in almost every U.S. state, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, and at international sites in South America, Asia, and Europe through the Open Society University Network. “As learning and activism moves online, it is essential to continue teaching about this central global issue,” says Bard CEP Director Eban Goodstein. “This April 7 teaching event is designed to engage secondary education, higher education, and local communities across the nation and around the world in a critical discussion about local climate solutions.”

The state-level teach-ins are free and open to the public. For more information, including start times, and to register for your local teach-in, visit solveclimateby2030.org. Solve Climate By 2030 is made possible by support from Clif Bar & Company.

As university and high school teachers scramble to move classes online due to the new coronavirus pandemic, Goodstein says the April 7 event provides a ready-made lesson plan for college and high school classrooms. Solve Climate has teaching guides here for follow-up discussion, including entry points from every discipline: philosophy, political science, engineering, natural science, art, and economics. Community-level viewing events will be hosted at colleges and universities, high schools, community groups and faith organizations. International universities are welcome to participate. All of the webinars will all be recorded and will be available for future discussions.
 
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