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Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database

Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database

The database is designed to expand in real time as the community surrounding the watershed continues to unearth historical information about the Saw Kill.

Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database

Bard College Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities Celebrates Launch of Saw Kill Watershed Community Database
Community members and Bard staff and students taking Saw Kill water samples at the Annandale Bridge, 2016. Photo by Laurie Husted
On Tuesday, February 24, at 7 pm the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities at Bard College is presenting the first ever Saw Kill Watershed Community Database, a publicly accessible data tool housing datasets developed by community members, researchers, and Bard faculty and students since the late 1800s. Funded in part by the Hudson River Foundation, Bard Community Sciences Lab, and Hudson River Estuary Program of the DEC, the database is designed to expand in real time as the community surrounding the watershed continues to unearth historical information about the Saw Kill, and conducts community sciences in the watershed with efforts such as ongoing sampling.

The database will be launched at a celebration held at the Elmendorph Inn at 7562 N. Broadway, Red Hook, NY, at 7 pm on Tuesday, February 24. The event is free and open to the public, with refreshments provided.

“This project is like a love letter from Bard to the community we have been part of and served for over 100 years,” said Elias Dueker, associate professor of Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard. “Students, faculty, and staff are working side by side with community leaders to make the database as comprehensive as possible. We have found information in people’s closets, basements, paper files, art, photos, and stories. I don’t think there is anything like this project across the country, but I hope we can inspire other communities to rediscover how much they already know and study about their watersheds—just how much information is waiting there to help them step up to environmental challenges that seem at emergency-level today.”

The project—a collaboration between the Center for Experimental Humanities, Bard Biology and Environmental Studies, and community groups including the Saw Kill Watershed Community, Riverkeeper, and Hudson River Watershed Alliance—represents over 50 years of Bard's commitment in nurturing community efforts to provide meaningful stewardship of the Saw Kill Watershed, which provides drinking water and recreation for both Bard and the surrounding region. By compiling all available information and ongoing environmental research about the watershed in one accessible repository, the project is intended to serve as a versatile resource: as a teaching tool for local schools, for new residents wanting to learn about their surroundings, for community members who may have concerns about what they are observing in the watershed, and to provide meaningful data required to inform policy decisions that would affect the Saw Kill and its communities. For more information, please visit: cesh.bard.edu/csl/saw-kill-monitoring-program


Post Date: 02-24-2026
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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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April 2013

04-15-2013
Bard CEP and Bard MBA director Eban Goodstein urges young people to pursue higher education and careers in sustainability.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |
04-02-2013
Bard College Farm Hosts Festival Fundraiser on April 13
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Environmental/Sustainability,Music,Student,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

March 2013

03-26-2013
Tom O'Dowd, executive administrator of Bard's Environmental and Urban Studies Program, looks at parks and natural spaces in the region.

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Meta: Type(s): Staff | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
03-26-2013
C2C Fellows Lead National Conversation on Democracy and Climate with Film Screening and Discussion<br />
More than 85 colleges and community organizations across the country have joined the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and C2C Fellows Network in leading a national conversation on democracy and climate change with a screening of The Island President—the 2011 documentary that chronicles Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed’s efforts to confront climate change and rising sea levels, which threaten to submerge the low-lying island nation. The film will be screened on Wednesday, April 17.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Division of Social Studies,Environmental/Sustainability,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
03-15-2013
Elyse Foladare '12 got involved in AmeriCorps while studying at Bard. These days she's working with the organization as a watershed ambassador, taking care of the habitat in her native New Jersey.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
03-13-2013
Bard alumna and Oberlin professor Julia Christensen '00 has received a prestigious Creative Capital grant to build DIY video projectors out of reclaimed electronic waste.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of the Arts,Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
03-13-2013
Lindsey Shute CEP '07 participated in a recent Tedx Manhattan talk titled "Changing the Way We Eat," in which she talks about farming as a career path for young people. (Her segment begins at minute 26.)

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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy |
03-04-2013
Bard is once again participating in the national RecycleMania college competition. Last year we won in the Food Service Organics category. In the first two weeks of this year’s contest, the College had recycled 11,499 pounds of paper, cardboard, and containers and composted more than 27,300 pounds of food scraps.
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

February 2013

02-27-2013
The Clif Bar Family Foundation has invested $100,000 in Bard’s new MBA in Sustainability. This innovative “program related investment” comes in the form of a low-interest loan that will support the program through its startup phase.

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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability |
02-14-2013
Organic Beef Farmer and Former Wall Street Crusader Sandy B. Lewis to Speak at Bard<br />
On Tuesday, February 19, Bard College will host a talk and discussion with Salim B. “Sandy” Lewis, a Wall Street leader, founder of his firm, who now, with his wife, is the owner and operator of Lewis Family Farm in Essex, New York, a beef farm with a unique USDA certificate in grass. Lewis will explore “Why Fixing Wall Street and the Economy is Critical to the World” in a discussion with Matt Taibbi ’92, the renowned political and financial columnist for Rolling Stone.
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Credit: Photo: Fred Conrad, The New York Times
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Economics,Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center,Levy Economics Institute |
02-06-2013
Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability Program Receives Innovative Investment from Clif Bar<br />
The Clif Bar Family Foundation has launched a new approach to philanthropy, making its first-ever $100,000 “Program Related Investment” (PRI) in Bard College’s new MBA in Sustainability, one of a handful of programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a graduate business curriculum.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |

January 2013

01-28-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-18-2013
Bard’s Farm Nurtures Knowledge—and Vegetables<br />
The Bard College Farm started in 2012 with plenty of enthusiasm and financial assistance from Bard students, staff, and faculty, as well as community members. Last season the farm grew 30 kinds of vegetables and had the largest cranberry bog in the Hudson Valley. The farm sells produce to the campus dining service and at a local farmer's market, and offers opportunities for people on and off campus to learn about sustainable agriculture.
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Student,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
01-18-2013
Bard's Landscape and Arboretum Program and New York Botanical Garden Offer Continuing Education<br />
The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College and the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) are offering noncredit continuing education classes at Bard College this winter and spring. Open to the public, these classes feature some of the top names in the horticulture industry and cover a wide array of topics.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-18-2013
C2C Fellows Host Nationwide Screening of <em>The Island President</em><br />
The Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s C2C Fellows will host a national screening of the movie The Island President on April 17. The film will be shown on a number of college campuses, and followed by a discussion with award-winning director Jon Shenk, 350.org executive director and cofounder May Boeve, and Bard CEP director Dr. Eban Goodstein.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Center for Civic Engagement |
01-08-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Wellness | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

November 2012

11-29-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Environmental/Sustainability,Student | Institutes(s): Bard MBA in Sustainability,Center for Civic Engagement |
11-25-2012
Bard to Host C2C Fellows Sustainability Workshop
During the weekend of November 30 – December 2, Bard College will host the northeast regional C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop. Directed by Eban S. Goodstein, director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) and dean of the Bard MBA in Sustainability, the workshop offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability | Institutes(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy,Bard MBA in Sustainability,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
11-15-2012
Bard College Farm: A Small Plot to Connect Town and Gown
Bard College Farm works to feed student diners as well as the community at large.
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Photo: Photo by Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Bard Farm,Education,Environmental/Sustainability,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
11-08-2012
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Photo: Photo by Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Environmental/Sustainability,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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