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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By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings

  • 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.