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March 2021
03-19-2021
A year ago, the City of Kingston and the Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water at Bard College began monitoring the city’s air quality. The initial findings show that air pollution is relatively low, yet even during 2020, when vehicle emissions were down due to the pandemic, the city still saw the impact of burning fossil fuels.
Photo: The City of Kingston, New York.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities |
03-02-2021
“If skeptics underestimate the effect the climate movement will have on the world’s economy, greens are in danger of overestimating how much their efforts will help the polar bears,” writes Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, in the Wall Street Journal. “Paradoxically, as climate change assumes a more prominent place on the international agenda, climate activists will lose influence over climate policy.”
Photo: Polar bears in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, March 6, 2007. Photo by Reuters
Meta: Type(s): Article,Faculty | Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Division of Social Studies,Environmental/Sustainability,Global and International Studies,Political Studies Program,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Article,Faculty | Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Division of Social Studies,Environmental/Sustainability,Global and International Studies,Political Studies Program,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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