By Alexander Schlutz Yesterday’s educational forum on Today’s Fossil Fuels and the Future of Our Children’s Health – co-sponsored by The Mothers Project, Climate Mama, the Center for Environmental Health, and John Jay’s program in Sustainability and Environmental Justice – …
This week Professor Milena Popov and her students in the Introduction to Sustainability Studies (SUS 299) class enjoyed exploring the exhibit World of Matter at the James Gallery of the CUNY Graduate Center. Ms. Jennifer Wilkinson, Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator, greeted the group and …
World leaders are coming to New York City for a UN summit on the climate crisis next week and there are wide ranging events all over the city to educate and call for action! Click here for the events calendar. …
An environmental club at John Jay College would be a great opportunity for students interested in sustainability and environmental justice to socialize and get to know each other better. Members of the club could decide what they would like to do, …
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New Yorkers are in for an exciting moment in history, poised to make a major contribution to the generations that come after us. The People’s Climate March is gearing up to be a massive march in support of sustainability and environmental justice. …
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On Monday, Bristol County, MA, District Attorney Sam Sutter surprised climate activists when he dropped criminal charges against Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara, who had blocked a daily shipment of 40,000 toms of coal to the Brayton Point power plant …
What an amazing world we live in– even when we’re destroying it. Photographer Alex MacLean recently traveled to the Alberta oil sands to document the simultaneously beautiful and disturbing realities of Canada’s economic engine. The oil sands are being exploited in the …
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Political Science Professor, SEJ faculty member, and nature photographer Jennifer Rutledge captures the Hudson River at low tide, a few dozen miles upriver from NYC. City dwellers know the Hudson from boardwalks and bridges; further upriver the Hudson has gentles banks …
The New York Times recently published the conclusions of a leaked U.N. draft report on the effects of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions, which finds that they are already threatening to be more of a global crisis than the political process can solve alone. …
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In a milestone for environmental law, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Babier found BP the primary culprit in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, judging BPs conduct “reckless” and grossly negligent. The U.S. attorney …
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