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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

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.

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

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

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Post Date: 08-05-2025

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August 2013

08-16-2013

Eban Goodstein recently spoke at the South American Business Forum in Argentina, where he told the audience that a sustainable economy will have to be modeled on natural systems.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Economics,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

08-01-2013

Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

July 2013

07-21-2013

Bard MBA faculty member Andrew Winston observes that more big businesses are committing to corporate sustainability.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Economics,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |

07-19-2013

Bard CEP and Bard MBA director Eban Goodstein and more than 100 other economists have published a call to build a new global economy, accompanied by a video, The Bottom Line: A New Economy.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Economics,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

07-17-2013

In addition to health concerns associated with bagged lettuce, prepackaged greens carry an environmental impact, says Gidon Eshel.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

07-16-2013

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

07-10-2013

Steven Lichtin and Brady McCartney consider how the natural gas boom in the United States has shaped and may continue to shape renewable energy development.

Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Economics,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

07-03-2013

Center for Civic Engagement Hosts New Summer Science Program for Local Students<br />

The Bard College Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) announces a new summer science program for students in the local Red Hook and Germantown school districts. Working closely with Bard and middle school faculty, the Bard College Farm and the Bard Science Summer Research Institute, student program directors, and CCE VISTA volunteers developed the Build, Learn, Play! Summer Science program. The four-day program utilizes the farm and Bard’s state-of-the-art Reem and Kayden Center for Science and Computation.

Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

June 2013

06-25-2013

"My advice: education is everything," Bard alumnus Chevy Chase '68 told the Poughkeepsie Journal last weekend in Woodstock, where he and his wife Jayni were presented with an environmental award.

Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

06-25-2013

Environmental and Urban Studies professor Michael Specter examines the battle over how to treat Lyme disease.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Citizen Science |

06-14-2013

Michael Specter, visiting professor of environmental and urban studies, reviews the film Pandora's Promise and considers the possible environmental benefits of nuclear power.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

06-14-2013

Actor, comedian, and Bard alumnus Chevy Chase '68 and his wife, Jayni, will be in Woodstock this weekend to be recognized by the Catskill Mountainkeeper environmental organization and to raise funds for the Opus 40 sculpture park and museum.

Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

06-07-2013

The success of DARPA's defense research reveals how Congress can support sustainable technology development, writes Bard CEP and MBA student Brady McCartney.

Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

06-05-2013

Bard CEP Director Goodstein Looks to Future as Atmosphere Passes CO2 Milestone<br />

As the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passes 400 parts per million, Eban Goodstein reflects on the past course of climate change and possible sustainable futures. Dr. Goodstein directs the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability program.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

May 2013

05-13-2013

Susan Fox Rogers and Bard students removed trash from Tivoli Bay last weekend using canoes and kayaks. "The river belongs to all of us and everyone has to pitch in," Rogers said. "It's one of the most magnificent parts of this country."

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

05-10-2013

Last week, at the 2013 ISSP Conference in Chicago, Bard MBA faculty member Hunter Lovins joined the Sustainability Hall of Fame, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of sustainability and to the professionals who serve it.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |

April 2013

04-24-2013

An Evening at the Intersection of Democracy and Climate Change

More than 3,000 people from 115 institutions participated in the National Conversation on Democracy and Climate, which was organized by C2C Fellows at Bard and available virtually to organizations across the country. The event featured a coordinated nationwide screening of the film The Island President, followed by an interactive expert panel.

Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

04-18-2013

A study coauthored by Bard CEP's Rebecca Barnes looks at decreased snow and increased drought risk in the Rocky Mountains.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Center for Civic Engagement |

04-17-2013

Brady McCartney looks at creating greener cities by focusing on eco-districts, urban areas designed to create positive environmental impacts.

Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

04-15-2013

Bard CEP and Bard MBA director Eban Goodstein urges young people to pursue higher education and careers in sustainability.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

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