These links are to an absolutely amazing project by JJ Prof Sandra Swenson. She received an NSF grant to teach NSF students to monitor Hudson River water quality. She created a lab that allows JJ students to do this testing. …
by Nyasha Laing On Wednesday, September 30, the Program in Sustainability and Environmental Justice, the Africana Studies department and the Gender Studies program welcomed Jacqueline Patterson, Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP to John Jay as part …
John Jay has a brand-new Environmental Club. Check out the events the club is sponsoring this Fall:
SEJ program member and John Jay Prof. Karen Malpede is blogging for the Kenyon Rewview in the run-up to COP21, the important UN Climate Conference in Paris this December. Her first post tackles the problem of mass-exctinction. It’s an important …
Sustainable CUNY Launches NYSolar Smart SunShares Program The City University of New York is participating in a NY-Sun pilot program for CUNY employees, their families and friends who are interested in going solar. NYSolar Smart SunShares is a limited time …
From: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Sep. 08 2015 Primed for Environmental Health Science Mailman School Program Encourages Minorities to Enter the Field This summer, eight undergraduates from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice were given a …
The wonderful, new film, “Inhabit. A Permaculture Perspective, “can be viewed online for free. Inhabit explores the many environmental issues facing us today and examines solutions that are being applied using the ecological design process called permaculture. Permaculture is a …
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by Alexander Schlutz Environmentalists celebrated a rare victory at the end of last year, when New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on fracking. The decision was made after the state’s acting health commissioner Howard Zucker – following …
By Alexander Schlutz A group of concerned New Jerseyans met this past Sunday morning for a hike in the Ramapo Valley County Reservation to protest the proposed Pilgrim oil pipeline. If constructed, the pipeline would pump 400,000 gallons of crude …
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By Staci Strobl Central Park can feed you if you know what to pick. Environmental Crime (SUS 240) students toured with Widman Steve Brill, a foraging expert, in Central Park on Saturday May 9, 2015. Exploring the deviant behavior of …
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