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  • Columbia Alumni Making Sense of Sustainable Investing

    Columbia Alumni Making Sense of Sustainable Investing

    While more institutional investors are factoring sustainability in their investment decisions, there is little agreement about what sustainability means, or how to measure it. Interviews with three sustainable investment professionals—all graduates of Columbia University’s Sustainability Management graduate program—indicate a growing demand for investing that accounts for sustainability performance, but also obstacles to discerning the best…

  • Beyond the Classroom: Field Visit to Rockefeller State Park

    Beyond the Classroom: Field Visit to Rockefeller State Park

    As part of the course on The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry with Professor Ralph Schmidt, students visited the Rockefeller State Park in October 2016.

  • Sustainability Bonds: a Personal and Professional Network

    Sustainability Bonds: a Personal and Professional Network

    Energy efficiency, corporate sustainability reporting, and investor relations piqued Charlotte Peyraud’s interest and became her focus, and ultimately, her career.

  • Earth Institute Practicum

    Earth Institute Practicum

    The Practicum is a dynamic forum featuring a different lecture each week by directors or senior researchers and professors representing different Earth Institute departments, centers and laboratories.

  • Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    The M.S. in Sustainability Management is welcoming its new class of aspiring sustainability practitioners to campus this week.

  • MSSM Alumnus Designs Bird Habitat in Thailand

    MSSM Alumnus Designs Bird Habitat in Thailand

    MSSM Alum Chak Cherdsatirul, is transforming 30 acres into a natural sanctuary for birds in Thailand. A challenge for architects, zoologists and botanists to juxtapose biodiversity concepts with aesthetic human-nature design to ultimately create a sustainable avian habitat.

  • A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    Read about new MSSM Faculty member Carter Strickland, and how he will bring his expertise in sustainability and environmental policy to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities.

  • The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry

    The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry

    Read about new MSSM Faculty member Ralph Schmidt, and how he will bring his expertise to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry.

  • Balancing Development and Preservation in an Urban National Park

    Balancing Development and Preservation in an Urban National Park

    Nairobi National Park is the only wildlife park in the world within a city’s administrative boundaries. However, the park’s value to its greater ecosystem, as well as its role in promoting conservation throughout Kenya, are under threat due to recent urban and infrastructure developments.

Composite banner with modern building at night and portrait of Dean Alexis Abramson that reads "Science for the Planet"

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

  • Columbia Alumni Making Sense of Sustainable Investing

    Columbia Alumni Making Sense of Sustainable Investing

    While more institutional investors are factoring sustainability in their investment decisions, there is little agreement about what sustainability means, or how to measure it. Interviews with three sustainable investment professionals—all graduates of Columbia University’s Sustainability Management graduate program—indicate a growing demand for investing that accounts for sustainability performance, but also obstacles to discerning the best…

  • Beyond the Classroom: Field Visit to Rockefeller State Park

    Beyond the Classroom: Field Visit to Rockefeller State Park

    As part of the course on The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry with Professor Ralph Schmidt, students visited the Rockefeller State Park in October 2016.

  • Sustainability Bonds: a Personal and Professional Network

    Sustainability Bonds: a Personal and Professional Network

    Energy efficiency, corporate sustainability reporting, and investor relations piqued Charlotte Peyraud’s interest and became her focus, and ultimately, her career.

  • Earth Institute Practicum

    Earth Institute Practicum

    The Practicum is a dynamic forum featuring a different lecture each week by directors or senior researchers and professors representing different Earth Institute departments, centers and laboratories.

  • Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    The M.S. in Sustainability Management is welcoming its new class of aspiring sustainability practitioners to campus this week.

  • MSSM Alumnus Designs Bird Habitat in Thailand

    MSSM Alumnus Designs Bird Habitat in Thailand

    MSSM Alum Chak Cherdsatirul, is transforming 30 acres into a natural sanctuary for birds in Thailand. A challenge for architects, zoologists and botanists to juxtapose biodiversity concepts with aesthetic human-nature design to ultimately create a sustainable avian habitat.

  • A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    Read about new MSSM Faculty member Carter Strickland, and how he will bring his expertise in sustainability and environmental policy to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities.

  • The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry

    The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry

    Read about new MSSM Faculty member Ralph Schmidt, and how he will bring his expertise to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: The Business and Ecology of Sustainable Forestry.

  • Balancing Development and Preservation in an Urban National Park

    Balancing Development and Preservation in an Urban National Park

    Nairobi National Park is the only wildlife park in the world within a city’s administrative boundaries. However, the park’s value to its greater ecosystem, as well as its role in promoting conservation throughout Kenya, are under threat due to recent urban and infrastructure developments.