Sustainability53
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Lies of the Bamboo Toothbrush: The Plastic Industry’s Perverse Greenwashing
How ploys like bioplastic and anti-litterbug campaigns help to protect the true culprits of plastic pollution.
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You Asked: How Can We Track Corporate Sustainability Measures?
An Earth Institute expert explains how to dig up a company’s sustainability records.
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Trump’s Continued Climate Denial and the Fires of California
If we are to address climate change, environmental protection must once again be seen as above politics and an unfit arena for partisan battle.
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Sustainable Development Seeking Teaching Assistants for Spring 2020
Applicants must be current full-time Columbia University students enrolled in a degree-granting program.
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Q&A With Sustainable Cities Expert Jitendra Bajpai
The engineer and urban transport planner teaches a course on sustainable cities for the M.S. in Sustainability Management program.
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Chuck Schumer’s Electric Car Plan and the Politics of Climate Change
Senator Schumer’s electric vehicle proposal is a creative and sound approach that would have a significant impact on America’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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Recommendations for Creating a Department of Sustainability and Climate Change in NYC
A graduate student workshop evaluated the challenges and opportunities for a bill that aims to unite sustainability and resiliency issues under one office in city government.
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Join the Earth Institute’s Climate and Sustainability Communications Network
The network, open to all members of the Columbia community, will explore communications solutions to the challenges of climate change and sustainability.
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The Role of the University in Environmental Sustainability
A model of engagement and connecting research and education to problem-solving is particularly important in the field of environmental sustainability.
You Asked invites you to share your most pressing questions about climate, science, and sustainability. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School experts will respond with clear, evidence-based answers. Pose your questions and story ideas!
