http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 22 May 2013 16:33:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/15/of-cow-dung-cook-stoves-and-sustainability-in-practice/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/15/of-cow-dung-cook-stoves-and-sustainability-in-practice/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 15:35:02 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36585 When the Environmental Defense Fund asked me to measure how biogas cook stoves were changing the lives of farmers in rural India, there wasn’t a word in that question with which I was comfortable. Having just graduated from the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development, I had never done fieldwork; and the concept of a biogas digester, which turns cow dung into natural gas through anaerobic digestion, was itself a mystery. I had no idea that this was the beginning of a steep learning curve into low-carbon development at a large scale. But even more, that it would provide a window into the lives of families whose existences have permanently improved thanks to the clean cooking stoves.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/15/of-cow-dung-cook-stoves-and-sustainability-in-practice/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/fall-2013-undergraduate-program-in-sustainable-development-teaching-assistant-positions/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/fall-2013-undergraduate-program-in-sustainable-development-teaching-assistant-positions/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:22:01 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35742 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/fall-2013-undergraduate-program-in-sustainable-development-teaching-assistant-positions/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/15/earth-institute-summer-2013-internships/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/15/earth-institute-summer-2013-internships/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:55:08 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35640 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/15/earth-institute-summer-2013-internships/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/undergraduate-students-working-towards-sustainable-solutions/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/undergraduate-students-working-towards-sustainable-solutions/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:30:34 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35284 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/undergraduate-students-working-towards-sustainable-solutions/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/25/putting-sustainability-into-practice-ecopracticum/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/25/putting-sustainability-into-practice-ecopracticum/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:15:10 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34468 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/25/putting-sustainability-into-practice-ecopracticum/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/16/2013-mvp-internship-applications/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/16/2013-mvp-internship-applications/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:18:02 +0000 Jessica Crespo http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33543 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/16/2013-mvp-internship-applications/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/04/spring-2013-undergraduate-research-assistant-positions/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/04/spring-2013-undergraduate-research-assistant-positions/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:13:11 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33409 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/04/spring-2013-undergraduate-research-assistant-positions/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/04/earth-institute-spring-2013-internships/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/04/earth-institute-spring-2013-internships/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:11:30 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=33419 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/01/04/earth-institute-spring-2013-internships/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/influencing-students-towards-a-more-sustainable-path/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/influencing-students-towards-a-more-sustainable-path/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:13:38 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31436 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/influencing-students-towards-a-more-sustainable-path/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/applying-classroom-theory-in-the-forest/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/applying-classroom-theory-in-the-forest/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:32:28 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31419 Under-graduate and graduate students from Columbia University joined professors Kevin Griffin and Matthew Palmer in September for the first of 10 field trips outside of the New York City area. Dr. Griffin and Dr. Palmer teach Forest Ecology, a course that combines classroom theory with hands-on experience and training in methods of ecological field work. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/18/applying-classroom-theory-in-the-forest/feed/ 0