Tag: sustainability
Understanding the Middle East conflict is not an easy task, and adding an environmental component to the puzzle doesn’t make it any easier. Students in the Regional Environmental Sustainability in the Middle East program, having gone through 16 days of an 18-day trip to the region, now see clearly how complex the issues actually are. Having visited Jordan, Israel and parts of the West Bank, and met with local people who deal with environmental issues and the conflict on a daily basis, students have come to realize that sometimes the more you know and experience, the less things makes sense.
Category> Climate, Education News, Water
Tags> education news, Israel, jordan, Middle East, sustainability, Sustainability Management, West Bank
When architect Fernando Arias first arrived in Kumasi, Ghana last year, he saw unpaved roads, trash burning, garbage everywhere, and shoeless children running all around. He knew he needed to act on their behalf.
Category> General Earth Institute, Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> Ghana, Infrastructure, Kumasi, Millennium Cities Initiative, sustainability, urban design lab, waste management
Eric Dalski, a student in the Earth Institute Executive Education Certificate Program in Conservation and Environmental Sustainability is building vegetative layers grown on a rooftop. Learn more about his perspectives on the Certificate Program.
Category> Education News, General Earth Institute, Urbanization
Tags> Alumni News, eco matters, education news, EICES, sustainability
Earth Institute research expeditions investigating the dynamics of the planet on all levels take place on every continent and every ocean. Most projects originate with our main research center, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and are often run in collaboration with other institutions.
Category> Agriculture-Food, Climate, Earth Sciences, Earthquakes, Ecosystems, General Earth Institute, Ocean Acidification, Urbanization, Water
Tags> Adaptation, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, biodiversity, Climate, Climate Science, conservation, Earthquakes, Environment, Global Warming, Greenland, India, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Media Advisories, North America, sustainability
So far, tensiometers have been tested in four central districts of Punjab, initially with more than 500 farmers the first year, and then peaking with an additional 4,500 farmers in 2011 before testing was scaled back. Data showed, on average, a 30 percent reduction in the water used in the test plots when compared with the standard practices employed in the control plots.
Category> Agriculture-Food, General Earth Institute, Water
Tags> Climate and Agriculture, India, sustainability, Technology, water matters, Water Scarcity
Rosario Costa-Cabral and her brothers harvest hundreds of fruits, oils and wood products from the stream-laced forest of the Amazon River delta. But the climate here is changing: Tides rise higher, and seasonal floods are growing worse.
Category> Agriculture-Food, Climate, Ecosystems, Poverty / Economic Development
Tags> agroforestry, Amazon rainforest, Amazon River, Brazil, Climate and Agriculture, climate change, Climate Science, conservation, Developing Countries, eco matters, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, sustainability, Sustainable Development
In a live webcast this afternoon from Hunter College, Earth Institute scientists Cynthia Rosenzweig and Klaus Jacob will join a panel on “Hurricane Sandy and Challenges to the NY Metropolitan Region.”
Category> Climate, Ecosystems, Natural Disasters, Urbanization
Tags> Adaptation, climate change, Hurricane Sandy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, nasa goddard institute for space studies, New York City, sustainability
Though driverless cars sound like something out of the “The Jetsons,” they are just one of many innovations already under way in the realm of personal transportation.
Category> Economics, Energy
Tags> Connectivity, Driverless car, Electric Vehicles, mobility, sustainability, Technology, Transportation
The Center for Environmental Research and Conservation provides executive training in environmental sustainability through science, policy, and economics; we invite you to learn from our leading experts and practitioners to become an effective environmental leader and decision-maker.
Category> Ecosystems
Tags> conservation, eco matters, Environment, sustainability
Are you interested in cultivating the skills necessary to implement environmental change? Do you want to learn more about conservation and environmental sustainability, including ecosystem services and function?
Category> Climate, Earth Sciences, Ecosystems, Energy, General Earth Institute, Ocean Acidification, Water
Tags> Climate, conservation, eco matters, ecosystems, sustainability, Water
