MPA in Environmental Science and Policy8
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The Ephemeral Tennis Ball: Addressing Sustainability in Sports
Professional tennis tournaments can lead the way when it comes to making the shift towards a low-waste sport.
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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Kimberley Miner
MPA-ESP alumna Dr. Kimberley Miner has spent her career understanding earth and climate systems to better predict and mitigate the effects of climate change.
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Environmental Science and Policy Students Begin Their Summer Policy Analysis Workshops
Each workshop team will study a piece of real-life legislation for the whole summer in order to understand the bill inside-out and backwards and forwards.
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Environmental Science and Policy Students Win Third Place in Sustainable Fashion Competition
The team invented a hypothetical denim brand that centers sustainability and reusability.
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How to Nudge Climate Deniers Into Doing the Right Thing
With the right kind of language and framing, some kinds of skeptics are willing to take action around climate change.
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Climate and COVID as Crises of Environmental Sustainability
Human technology and ingenuity have created a world of comfort, curiosity and creativity. But we have failed to account for their impacts on the systems that sustain the planet and in turn sustain human life.
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Future of Food: Exploring Challenges to Global Food Systems
The effectiveness of global food system is undermined by two key challenges: waste and nutrition.
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Decarbonizing the Defense Department
Biden’s climate team could use normal executive power to emphasize renewable energy in the Department of Defense, and graduate students at Columbia University have provided a blueprint to jumpstart that process.
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World is Not on Track to Achieve Global Deforestation Goals
Progress requires large-scale development projects to increase transparency and inclusion of grassroots and Indigenous groups.
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