Posts
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Columbia Beautiful Planet 2024
Each year, we honor Earth Day by sharing some amazing photos celebrating the beauty and magic of our planet from our campuses to the far corners of the world as captured by the Columbia community.
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Plugging the Leak on Laundry Pollution
Laundry is the biggest source of microplastic fibers in our waterways. These Columbia researchers are working on a solution.
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Regulating Air Toxics from Petrochemical Plants
We need to end performative and ideological regulatory debates and strive for effective regulation that protects the public while encouraging innovation.
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Why New Yorkers Long for the Natural World
Why are we so disconnected from nature? Ecologist Carl Safina explores this issue in a lecture and new book about owls.
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Quiz: Plastics 101
Though you likely use plastic every day, how much do you really know about this “Material of a Thousand Uses”?
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Student Spotlight: Navigating Sustainable Development for My Career Through Capstone Projects
Two SDEV students discuss why they chose to study sustainability.
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Was It an Alien Spacecraft—Or a Delivery Truck?
A Harvard astronomer says a meteor came from beyond our solar system. A new study questions whether his data includes a more obvious explanation.
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Protecting Our Planet: 5 Strategies for Reducing Plastic Waste
Think global, fight local: In honor of Earth Day, here are some tips to reduce your plastic footprint.
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Garbage, Product Design, and the Circular Economy
The key to building the circular economy is not consumer guilt or changed behavior but new business models and technologies that enable the economy to transform waste into a resource.