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Food Waste and the Complexity of New York City’s Garbage
The goal of reusing food waste is worthwhile, though NYC’s new mandatory residential food recycling has some design problems.
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President Biden’s Environmental Record
Joe Biden and his team have put together a stunning record of environmental success. In addition to reconstructing the EPA, Biden has led the enactment of America’s largest environmental funding laws.
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We Made Musical Instruments From Trash at Manhattanville Community Day
Inspired by Bash the Trash, kids had a chance to make musical instruments out of reusable materials, then perform in a parade.
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The Impact of the American Consensus Favoring Environmental Protection
The legal structure of American environmental protection persists because environmental protection has been added to the fundamental and irreducible function of government: to protect people from harm.
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A Proposal to Decouple Food Systems From Deforestation in Brazil
Students from the M.P.A. in Environmental Science and Policy program traveled to Brazil to present their policy proposal at the 2023 Global Public Policy Network Conference.
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How to Defeat the Climate Change Complexity Monster
Use key questions to cut amorphous slogans like “climate emergency” into addressable pieces.
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Olivia Smith: Changing the Way We Look at Food Systems and the Environment
A soon-to-be graduate of the M.A. in Climate and Society program hopes to influence policy that makes food systems more sustainable and equitable.
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A Plastics Treaty Will Be Grand, but this Recycling Innovator in Indonesia Isn’t Waiting
A pop-up Sustain What conversation with a sustainability-focused entrepreneur building a plastic trash-to-resource business across eastern Indonesia.
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Q&A: Environmentally Sustainable Growth
In his new book, Professor Steven Cohen offers a positive vision of an environmentally sustainable future and outlines realistic paths toward a renewable resource-based economy.
