Sustainability News by Date
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December 2021
12-15-2021
The Bard MBA in Sustainability Program has once again been ranked as the best green MBA program (out of 224 US business schools) in the Princeton Review’s 2022 Best Business Schools rankings. The Bard MBA was also listed again in the top 10 MBAs for Nonprofit Management along with programs at Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia.
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |
Meta: Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |
12-14-2021
McDonald’s business, so heavily reliant on beef, is “fundamentally at odds with the Earth’s integrity,” says Gidon Eshel, environmental and urban studies research professor, in an interview with the Guardian. The company, which has announced sustainability initiatives in recent years, would need to commit to dramatically reducing the amount of beef it serves, according to climate experts. Food systems account for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study, which experts argue calls for immediate and substantive action. “No fig leaf, however persuasive or covering it is, can change that fact,” Eshel says.
Full Story in the Guardian
Full Story in the Guardian
Photo: Bard Professor Gidon Eshel.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental and Urban Studies Program,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-10-2021
CleanPalCo, a company created by students at Al-Quds Bard, has won the award for Best Student Company for 2021 in a regional competition throughout the Arab world. Ahmad Hijawi AQB ’23 and several colleagues launched the company, which produces sustainable building materials, after developing the concept in the Open Society University Network collaborative course Social Entrepreneurship. The course is cotaught by Alejandro Crawford and Eliza Edge MBA ’20 of the Bard MBA Program.
CleanPalCo addresses the problems of pollution and a lack of building supplies in Palestine by using discarded rubber tires, stone waste, and water to produce useful household products such as bricks, tiles, and rubber flooring for Palestinian municipalities.
CleanPalCo addresses the problems of pollution and a lack of building supplies in Palestine by using discarded rubber tires, stone waste, and water to produce useful household products such as bricks, tiles, and rubber flooring for Palestinian municipalities.
Photo: Ahmad Hijawi AQB ’23 (left) and members of CleanPalCo after winning the Best Student Company award from INJAZ.
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Community Engagement,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |
12-07-2021
Gen Z is taking to Twitter and “EcoTok” to mobilize and educate around climate change. Professor Eban Goodstein, director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Bard MBA in Sustainability, believes this new generation of activists could change the equation on climate action. “I work with young people who have decided that this is the life they want to lead. And there’s no place I’d rather be,” Goodstein says. “This is an extraordinary moment in which we’re living, where people all across the world have tremendous agency to influence the course of the planet, the future of humanity, and millions of species on the earth.” Undaunted by partisan divides and political gridlock, Goodstein believes youth activists have an integral role to play in climate action.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bard Graduate Programs,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability |
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