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Urban Farms: Growing Community Across the Five Boroughs
While urban agriculture is often praised for promoting sustainable growing techniques, one of its most important qualities is its encouragement of social connections and civic engagement.
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A Renewable Resource-Based Economy Requires Public-Private Partnership
What we’re missing is an activist federal government working hand in hand with the finance industry to incentivize green finance at a massive, national scale.
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How Have Careers in Sustainability Evolved Over the Past 10 Years?
The All Ivy Career Fair provides a glimpse into the diverse professional opportunities for sustainability students and graduates.
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Symposium Will Discuss How Businesses Can Lead on Climate
An event on March 6 will bring together representatives from the world’s most powerful industries to discuss the role of business in addressing today’s urgent sustainability challenges.
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How Private Philanthropies Can Maximize Their Impacts
In his new book, Philanthropy and Society, research scholar David Maurrasse highlights strategic and inclusive tactics that help philanthropic institutions to more effectively serve their communities.
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The Sharing Economy Comes to Congress While Plastic Bags Leave New York
Both clothing rental and plastic bag bans are small steps on the long road to sustainable cities and a circular, less environmentally destructive economy.
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The Declining Organizational Capacity of U.S. Environmental Agencies
We need effective state and federal environmental cops to protect the fragile blue dot in the vast vacuum of space that we call home.
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Report Suggests Solutions for Making Coffee More Sustainable
Because of the intertwined crises of poverty and environmental stress, the future is bleak for coffee farmers in many countries — but it doesn’t have to be this way.
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Columbia Event Management Brings Sustainability to the Table
Inspired by work with the Earth Institute, Columbia Event Management is now offering a Sustainable Living menu curated to feature local ingredients, focusing on vegan and vegetarian options.
AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference, takes place December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s theme—Where Science Connects Us—puts in focus how science depends on connection, from the lab to the field to the ballot box. Once again, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School scientists, experts, students, and educators are playing an active role, sharing our research and helping shape the future of our planet. #AGU25 Learn More
