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Four Bard Graduate Students Join EDF’s Climate Corps
Mariana Souza, Bard MBA ’16 will be a Climate Corps Fellow with Baxter International in Chicago. Bard graduate students will be helping companies and colleges save money and slow down global warming...
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Public-Private Partnerships and Community Engagement Creating a More...
Superstorm Sandy was a wake-up call for New Yorkers. Since the storm, terms like resiliency and sustainability have become pillars of both Mayor Bloomberg and de Blasio’s programs. For me, the storm...
View ArticleBiking for change
Biking makes people happy. It’s proven by science, and this fact is at the root of why biking makes so much sense at every level. Even two centuries after its invention, the bicycle continues to...
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NRDC: How We Can Transform ‘The Building Blocks of Life’
This is edited excerpt from a Sustainable Business Fridays conversation held April 27 by the Bard MBA in Sustainability program in New York City. This twice-monthly dial-in conversation features...
View ArticleFrom Paris, a Big Kiss to Nixon and (Anthony) Kennedy COP21 Blog 1/3
By Eban Goodstein In the three years leading to the ongoing Paris climate negotiations, the world has witnessed a truly big pivot. Back in 2012, business as usual global warming pollution was set to...
View ArticleParis, 2020, and the Return of Bipartisan America COP21 Blog 2/3
By Eban Goodstein Much of the focus in the Paris climate talks has been on a process supporting deeper cuts in global warming pollution. Should the nations of the earth come back in five years with a...
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What’s Old is New Again: The Future of Mass Transit in New York City
When New York City was incorporated into the five boroughs in 1898, Manhattan was the heart and business and economic center of the metropolis. As mass transit and other infrastructure was built, all...
View ArticleThe Carbon Pawprint
While gauging my carbon footprint with an online calculator, I look down at my bluetick coonhound, Elvis, and wonder what his carbon pawprint is. Nearby, his buddy Alice, a black and tan coonhound,...
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Bard MBA Winter Newsletter
We’ve had an exciting fall and winter at the Bard MBA in Sustainability and are happy to bring you our latest updates in our quarterly newsletter. Enclosed you’ll find lots of great news on the...
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Bard MBA Alum Spearheads Innovative Climate Push at Etsy
Brooklyn, NY– Chelsea Mozen joined the inaugural class of Bard’s MBA in Sustainability program in the fall of 2012 because she wanted to help rewire the world with clean energy. Today, one year after...
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The Business Case for Sustainability
The Bard CEP National Climate Seminar Fall 2011 series hosted a conversation with Hunter Lovins, President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, entitled “Climate Capitalism.” In Lovins’ view,...
View ArticlePlentitude: Can You Be Rich and Green?
Cross Post from RealClimateEconomics.org, a project of Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3). E3 Network is a national network of economists developing new arguments for the active...
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Sustainable Business Series—Financing Clean Energy
We were back at Cook+Fox for another installment of the Sustainable Business Series on Monday February 27th, this time on the topic of “Financing Clean Energy.” To get us started Bob Fox offered words...
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Triumph, tragedy, and climate change: ‘The Island President’ by Eban Goodstein
By Director Eban Goodstein “A cross between paradise and paradise.” This is how Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives describes his nation in Jon Shenk’s powerful new film, The Island President. Shenk...
View ArticleDirector Goodstein on Grist: Three ways to change the climate, in 2012 and...
Republished from Director Goodstein’s article posted to Grist, published today.Over the last two years, the consequences of 150 years of fossil-fuel development have materialized with a vengeance. The...
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Public Relations for Climate Change: A Conversation With David Fenton
For the most recent Sustainable Business Fridays conversation sponsored by the Bard MBA in Sustainability program, David Fenton, CEO and founder of Fenton Communications, joined the MBA students and...
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New Greenhouse Gas Rules Will Cost Taxpayers Very Little
This post was originally published on talkingpointsmemo.com on June 2nd, 2014 and was written by Eban Goodstein. As director of a graduate program in climate science and policy, every day I look into...
View ArticleBARD GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN SUSTAINABILITY SUPPORT THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH...
Featured on the homepage of the New York Times 410,000 peaceful protesters descended on New York City to demand world action on climate change as part of the People’s Climate March. Bard’s Graduate...
View ArticleBard MBA ’15 Candidate’s Brooklyn-Based Aquaponics Startup Fully Funded!
As if finishing up year 2 of your MBA in Sustainability wasn’t enough work, @BardMBA ’15 candidate Miles Chrettien decided 2015 was also the year to launch a startup, Verticulture. Yes, you read that...
View ArticleIs It Time to Stop Hating the Car? Maybe Not
Originally published on www.triplepundit.com, Jan 7th, 2015 By Reuben Jaffe Goldstein Bard MBA ’16 With electric cars finally making it to the market — at prices that are cost competitive with...
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Fear-Based Marketing Has No Place in the Mainstream Climate Change Debate
originally published by Ian Edwards BardMBA ’15 on TriplePundit The underwhelming launch in August of Milton Glaser’s new graphic campaign — “It’s not warming. It’s dying” — When it comes to climate...
View ArticleBard MBA Featured on Green Gotham
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard MBA was a recent featured guest on the NY City talk show, Green Gotham. Goodstein and the host of Green Gotham, Lew Blaustein, had a wide-ranging conversation...
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Speaking Truth About (and To) Power
By Sue Hall originally posted April 17, 2015 on www.gbig.org Join the Power Dialog: why students visits to their capitols can help #seizethegrid As Sierra Club’s Anastasia Schemkes fires off her...
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Consumption, Climate and Community: Filmmaker John de Graaf on Achieving...
By Heather Bowden, Lauren Hill, Nick Shore, Catherine Tedrow and Katie Ellman President Trump built his personal brand on wealth, using tag lines like, “You have to be wealthy in order to be great.”...
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How “Years of Living Dangerously” Communicates the Urgency of Climate Change
By Katie Ellman “Climate change isn’t stopping with the second season”—that’s Jon Meyersohn, co-executive producer of the Emmy-award winning television series Years of Living Dangerously, on why he...
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Game On: Recognizing Sports’ Role in Sustainability–By Kristin Hanczor
Source: Pixabay.com Sports Might be the Most Undervalued Industry in Promoting Climate Action Sports is a widely overlooked opportunity in the fight against climate change. “Sustainability”...
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13 Easy Ways to Make Your Office or Workspace More Sustainable–By Alexandra...
Making your office or workspace more sustainable is beneficial for your company’s bottom line. Simple changes can cut costs, improve employee productivity and retention, and enhance company reputation....
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Making Art, Making Change– By Amy Kalafa
“I wish to illuminate the damage, the breakage, the fragmentation. Somehow, if I can make it beautiful, I can make it one again.” Anne de Carbuccia is a French-American environmental artist working...
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How the Private Sector is Stepping Up on Climate Change–By Sarah Hutcherson
Republished from GreenBiz Michael Vandenbergh points out that 70% of us think that companies should be doing more on climate change. The good news, as he also points in his new book, is that the...
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What’s the Environmental Impact of Your Music Project?
Source: Kickstarter Early-stage entrepreneurs, such as those who use Kickstarter, should consider not only how to fund their venture, but also how to reduce their impact on the environment. Making...
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Educating Women and Girls: Why It’s a Solution to Combat Climate Change
Paul Hawken, noted American environmentalist, entrepreneur, activist, and author, has just released his latest book: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Paul...
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Dow’s Collaborative Blueprint for Unlocking Carbon Reductions–By Stephanie...
To date, Dow Olympic & Sports Solutions has delivered 3.64 million tons of CO2e reductions, and it’s on track to exceed 6 million tons by 2026. This unique partnership between Dow and the...
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Regenerative Agriculture: Increases Profits and Benefits the Planet
Photo: NRCS Oregon. Cows grazing on cover crops in Oregon With the recent EAT-Lancet report it is imperative now, more than ever, to better understand how to feed 10 billion people healthy diets by...
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To Rise With the Challenge of Our Time
Legendary leader and honored pioneer of the sustainability movement Hunter Lovins fights for “a finer future” Hunter Lovins is a force of nature. A lawyer, professor, author, policy advisor, activist,...
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