http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:24:28 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35747 Mothers, carbon, trash, vanishing ice and "secret lives": Watch a movie for Earth Day and learn. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/21/millennium-city-and-millennium-village-students-stand-up-for-girls-on-international-day-of-the-girl/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/21/millennium-city-and-millennium-village-students-stand-up-for-girls-on-international-day-of-the-girl/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:26:19 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31532 In sub-Saharan Africa, only 63 percent of girls complete their schooling, according to the World Bank. Yet our own research in the Millennium Cities indicates that girls who continue their education will have far greater opportunities, and they will be in a better position to care for themselves and their families. To celebrate the United Nations' International Day of the Girl, by “Standing Up for Girls” and their right to a quality education, a number of the Millennium Cities and Millennium Villages Project sites held rallies, marched and participated in debates on girls’ issues.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/21/millennium-city-and-millennium-village-students-stand-up-for-girls-on-international-day-of-the-girl/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/20/ikea-foundation-pledges-2-5-million-to-earth-institute-project-in-india/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/20/ikea-foundation-pledges-2-5-million-to-earth-institute-project-in-india/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:19:41 +0000 Catherine Fullerton http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=30593 In partnership with Earth Institute researchers, the IKEA Foundation has pledged over $2.5 million to help improve the quality of education through pilot projects in two Indian states. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/20/ikea-foundation-pledges-2-5-million-to-earth-institute-project-in-india/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/24/master-of-it-all-one-woman-scientist-pays-tribute-to-another/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/24/master-of-it-all-one-woman-scientist-pays-tribute-to-another/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:31:31 +0000 Kim Martineau http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=29799 Lamont-Doherty geophysicist Robin Bell pays tribute to colleague Kim Kastens who is retiring from Lamont after 31 years. Kastens was the first woman co-chief scientist on the JOIDES Resolution, first woman faculty member to join Columbia's geology department, founder of Columbia's joint journalism and environmental science master’s program and a pioneer in the field of geoscience education research.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/24/master-of-it-all-one-woman-scientist-pays-tribute-to-another/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/08/goals-for-rio-a-path-to-sustainability/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/08/goals-for-rio-a-path-to-sustainability/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:47:05 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27792 In an article published in The Lancet, Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs outlines his own ideas for sustainable development goals, and how how these goals can build on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN’s set of targets that aim to reduce extreme poverty and boost social well-being in many other ways by 2015.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/08/goals-for-rio-a-path-to-sustainability/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/30/making-sanitary-pads-to-help-keep-girls-in-school/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/30/making-sanitary-pads-to-help-keep-girls-in-school/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 19:55:29 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27430 MCI is lucky enough to work with two amazing Ethiopian women from the region of Tigrai, in the north of the country where the Millennium City of Mekelle is located. Both women have gone abroad to become talented professionals and both have resolved to transform the lives of women and young girls in their native region, returning home, one permanently, in order to do so.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/30/making-sanitary-pads-to-help-keep-girls-in-school/feed/ 4 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:16:42 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=25614 As the world population grows toward 10 billion, consumption of water, food and energy is expanding at a rate that cannot be maintained without depleting the planet’s resources. If we fail to address these two issues together, we face a grim future of economic, social and environmental ills, warns a new report prepared by a group of scientists and other experts for the Royal Society.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/populationbomb/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/populationbomb/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:50:33 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23682 “Thank you for coming on this gorgeous day, to sit in an airless, lightless room and discuss how to save the world,” said John Mutter, director of Columbia’s PhD in Sustainable Development and a member of the Earth Institute faculty, in welcoming the audience of the Sustainable Development Seminar, “The Population Bomb: Defused or Still Ticking?” The seminar brought together a panel of demography and population experts, who, Mutter calculated, shared a total of 121 years’ experience in the field. It became apparent, upon the beginning of the discussion, that the population bomb was not so much ticking, as exploding. The current world population, which is estimated to be 7 billion, is projected to reach 10.2 billion by 2100. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/populationbomb/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/celebrating-international-womens-day-triumphs-and-challenges/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/celebrating-international-womens-day-triumphs-and-challenges/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:19 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23627 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/celebrating-international-womens-day-triumphs-and-challenges/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/02/spring-2012-internship-positions-announcement/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/02/spring-2012-internship-positions-announcement/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:58:06 +0000 Jessica Crespo http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=21476 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/02/spring-2012-internship-positions-announcement/feed/ 0