Ecology17
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Reflections on COVID-19 and Our Destruction of Nature
The coronavirus pandemic provides mandatory lessons in sustainability.
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Understanding Our Interconnected World and COVID-19
We need to develop the technologies, organizational capacities and institutional framework that enable people to be safe in this new world.
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No ‘Space’ for Earth in Newly Released Presidential Budget
While the proposal boosts NASA’s budget to explore other worlds, what about the one we’ve already got?
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Spring 2020 Workshop Will Analyze Five Environmental Challenges
Students will investigate policy or management problems faced by their clients in government and nonprofit agencies.
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Tackling Environmental Dilemmas Requires Integrating the Legacy of Colonialism
Why Malcom Ferdinand advocates for ecological movements to engage in the struggle against racism, and vice versa.
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The Next Climate Tech Breakthrough May Have Already Happened, We Just Didn’t Notice
How biomimicry and evolution can offer sustainable solutions for adaptation and resilience.
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Landscape Conversion and its Impacts on Biodiversity Conservation in the Middle East
Conservation initiatives in the region can only be successful when they transcend boundaries, much the same way nature itself transcends boundaries.
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Biodiverse Forests Better at Storing Carbon for Long Periods, Says Study
Supports policies that protect and regenerate natural forests instead of planting new ones.
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The “Right” Whale to Save
Environmental Science and Policy students analyze legislation meant to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction.
By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
