State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

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  • Faculty Profile: Pooja Chawda

    Faculty Profile: Pooja Chawda

    An alum of the Sustainability Management program, she is teaching a course on life cycle assessment this fall.

  • Faculty Profile: Hayley Martinez

    Faculty Profile: Hayley Martinez

    She’s co-teaching the Earth Institute Practicum this fall.

  • Faculty Profile: Jessica Thurston

    Faculty Profile: Jessica Thurston

    A Sustainability Management alum, Thurston is teaching a course on ESG governance this fall.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Adam Gordon

    Faculty Spotlight: Adam Gordon

    He’ll be teaching ‘ESG-Aligned Corporate Governance’ in spring 2023.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Shaun Hoyte

    Faculty Spotlight: Shaun Hoyte

    He’ll be teaching the Sustainability Management program’s capstone workshop this fall, where he’ll work with students to create meaningful solutions to a real-world sustainability challenge.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dan Mathis

    Faculty Spotlight: Dan Mathis

    In his course, ‘Equity, Policy, and Sustainability,’ he’s looking forward to teaching students how to incorporate equity into their sustainability endeavors.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Rhiannon Gulick

    Faculty Spotlight: Rhiannon Gulick

    This fall, she’ll be co-teaching ‘Energy and Sustainable Development’ — a class that emphasizes how to ask good questions.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Franco Fubini

    Faculty Spotlight: Franco Fubini

    The founder of a company that’s reshaping food systems, Fubini will be teaching Sustainability Management this fall.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Nicholaus Rohleder

    Faculty Spotlight: Nicholaus Rohleder

    He’ll be teaching ‘Theory and Practice of Life Cycle Assessment’ this fall.

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  • Faculty Profile: Pooja Chawda

    Faculty Profile: Pooja Chawda

    An alum of the Sustainability Management program, she is teaching a course on life cycle assessment this fall.

  • Faculty Profile: Hayley Martinez

    Faculty Profile: Hayley Martinez

    She’s co-teaching the Earth Institute Practicum this fall.

  • Faculty Profile: Jessica Thurston

    Faculty Profile: Jessica Thurston

    A Sustainability Management alum, Thurston is teaching a course on ESG governance this fall.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Adam Gordon

    Faculty Spotlight: Adam Gordon

    He’ll be teaching ‘ESG-Aligned Corporate Governance’ in spring 2023.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Shaun Hoyte

    Faculty Spotlight: Shaun Hoyte

    He’ll be teaching the Sustainability Management program’s capstone workshop this fall, where he’ll work with students to create meaningful solutions to a real-world sustainability challenge.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dan Mathis

    Faculty Spotlight: Dan Mathis

    In his course, ‘Equity, Policy, and Sustainability,’ he’s looking forward to teaching students how to incorporate equity into their sustainability endeavors.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Rhiannon Gulick

    Faculty Spotlight: Rhiannon Gulick

    This fall, she’ll be co-teaching ‘Energy and Sustainable Development’ — a class that emphasizes how to ask good questions.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Franco Fubini

    Faculty Spotlight: Franco Fubini

    The founder of a company that’s reshaping food systems, Fubini will be teaching Sustainability Management this fall.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Nicholaus Rohleder

    Faculty Spotlight: Nicholaus Rohleder

    He’ll be teaching ‘Theory and Practice of Life Cycle Assessment’ this fall.