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Tag Archives: embargo
Changes Too Quick to Follow!
Figure 1 – Brooklyn College graduation at Barclays Center My summer break started last week. A day after Memorial Day we had our first in-person commencement ceremony since the start of the pandemic. It took place in the local Barclays … Continue reading →
Posted in Electricity, Energy, Russia/Ukraine, Sustainability
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Tagged alternative energy, Atmosphere, Brooklyn College, climate, Climate Change, CO2, Coal, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Electricity, embargo, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Future, Gas, GHG, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, gun, Mitigation, NOAA, Oil, petroleum, Policy, politician, prices, Russia, Science, strategy, Sustainable, target, Ukraine
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Assessment: Spring 2016: Earth Day, Birthday(s), and Passover
As I said in Friday’s mini-post, this weekend I got to celebrate Earth Day, Passover, my wife’s birthday, and CCF’s 4 year anniversary – what a culmination of great events! Every year, I take this time to reflect on the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adaptation, anniversary, Anthropocene, assessment, Bernie Sanders, Bilingual, bilingualism, Birthday, candidate, celebration, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, conservative, COP21, Cuba, David Brooks, Democrat, Donald Trump, Earth, Earth Day, Economics, ecosystem, Eduardo Porter, Education, Election, embargo, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, existential, existentialist, Facebook, follow, Fossil Fuels, Frank Bruni, Future, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hillary Clinton, human environment, liberal, like, Marco Rubio, Mexico, Mitigation, not a scientist, opposition, Paris, party, party platform, Passover, Physical Environment, politician, politics, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, primary, process, Republican, Revolution, Sarah Bakewell, Sarah Palin, scientist, single story, Social Media, Social Science, social studies, Sustainability, Ted Cruz, Twitter, ultimate revolution, US, wall
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Cuba and Miami: The Importance of Friendly Neighbors
Synagogue Beth Shalom – Havana, Cuba A JDC marked car in front of the synagogue Above, you see the beautiful Beth Shalom (House of Peace) synagogue we visited in Havana, as well as a car that belongs to the synagogue … Continue reading →
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Conference, IPCC, Sustainability
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Tagged Adaptation, Africa, aid, Alan Gross, arrest, beit shalom, beth shalom, bloqueo, Bradenton, Cape Town, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Conference, Cuba, day after tomorrow, disaster, Earth Day, Economics, embargo, emigrate, Environment, espionage, Everglades, Extreme Weather, Florida, Florida Keys, Fort Lauderdale, Global Warming, Government, Habana, Havana, Holocaust, humanitarian, immigration, IPCC, JDC, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Joint Distribution, liberator, Mauritius, Mexico, Miami, Mitigation, neighbor, Obama, Ocean, Population, prison, refuge, refugee, regime, sanctuary, Science, sea level, shalom, siege, South Africa, South Florida, spy, survivor, Sustainability, synagogue, Tampa, Technology, Temperature, topography, Trinidad, US, USAID, valle de los ingenios, water level, yacht
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Guest Blog by Jake Levin: Study Abroad in Havana, Cuba
Hello! This is guest blogger Jake Levin. By way of background, I’m a senior Macaulay Honors College student studying political science and philosophy at Brooklyn College, and I recently returned from a month spent studying abroad in Havana, Cuba. I … Continue reading →
Posted in Climate Change, Education, UN
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Tagged abroad, access, Adaptation, Afro-cuban, ambassador, America, arrest, assault, assembly, Barack Obama, blockade, bloqueo, Brooklyn College, Calvin Coolidge, candidate, Candidates, Casa de las Americas, Castro, CIA, Citizen, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, commerce, commercial, communication, Congress, congressional, constituent, control, Coolidge, criticism, critique, Cuba, Cuban, cuban american, cuban missile crisis, cuban revolution, cultural exchange, culture, democracy, Diaz-Balart, dictator, dictatorship, diplomacy, diplomat, dissident, Earl T. Smith, economic, Economics, Education, Election, embargo, Emissions, Environment, expectation, expression, Family, Fidel Castro, flight, foreign affairs, freedom, freedom of expression, Global Warming, Government, Guantanamo, Guest Blog, Habana, Havana, Helms-Burton, Helms-Burton Act, host, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, incarceration, Independence, influence, influencer, internet, island, jail, Jake Levin, John Dewey, journalism, journalist, legislation, legislature, Macaulay, Macaulay Honors College, Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, Media, Miami, Military, ministry, minority, News, Obama, oppression, oppressive, paper, participation, Platt, Platt Amendment, poc, political, political climate, political prisoner, politics, precedent, president, President Obama, presidential election, prison, province, provincial, Race, Raul Castro, regime, Relations, representation, repression, Revolution, Roberto Zurbano, Ros-Lehtinen, senator, social, Social Media, soldier, Spain, Spanish, speech, student, study, study abroad, Ted Cruz, Toricelli, Toricelli Act, Tourism, tourist, town hall, transportation, travel, Twitter, University of Havana, US, visitor, vote, voter, voter turnout, Voting, Washington, website
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State Destruction and the Cuban Embargo
My small series of blogs regarding Cuba cannot possibly have a global impact on these issues, so what am I doing writing it? In last week’s blog I warned about the dangers of a country (or group of countries) trying … Continue reading →
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, Education, IPCC, Sustainability, UN
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Tagged accountability, Adaptation, Africa, Argentina, Asia, automobile, Batista, bloqueo, car, Cars, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, CO2 emissions, Congo, corruption, Cuba, cuban revolution, democracy, Democratization, Economics, Economy, Education, effectiveness, Eisenhower, Electricity, embargo, Emissions, enforcement, Ethiopia, execution, export, force, governance, Habana, Havana, Human Rights, import, India, Indonesia, Jean Bodin, law, Leviathan, Max Weber, Mitigation, monopoly, monopoly on violence, Nigeria, Obama, Pakistan, political stability, politics, Population, Power, Power Plants, president, Raymond Aron, regulation, Revolution, rule of law, sovereign, stability, State, Sustainability, Tanzania, Technology, Thomas Hobbes, Uganda, UN, US, Violence, voice, World Bank, World Population
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The Holocaust, Nuclear Winter, and the Cuban Embargo
I am starting to write this blog on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Wednesday, January 27th. Today marks 71 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. The end of the week will also mean the beginning of a new semester and back … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adaptation, air strike, anti-aircraft, armageddon, arsenal, Auschwitz, Austria, Baltic, Batista, bay of pigs, Belgium, bunker, Carl Sagan, Castro, Che Guevarra, CIA, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Congress, congressional, Cuba, cuban missile crisis, cuban revolution, Czechoslovakia, death, Denmark, embargo, Environment, Fidel Castro, France, Genocide, Germans, Germany, Global Warming, Habana, Havana, Hiroshima, Holland, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, immigrant, immigration, Jew, Jewish, Jews, limit, Marco Rubio, missile, Murder, Nagasaki, Nazi, Norway, Nuclear, Nuclear Winter, Obama, Paul Ehrlich, Poland, Republican, Revolution, Russia, sanction, Science, Self Inflicted Genocide, soviet, soviet union, strike, suicide, Sustainability, Technology, Ted Cruz, Timothy Snyder, US, USSR, War, weapon
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Back From Cuba
For the semester break I decided to “unwind” with a book about the Holocaust and one on the consequences of a nuclear Armageddon – one covering the painful past and the other looking at a possible end of human civilization. … Continue reading →
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Tagged car, Castro, Chevrolet, Chevy, CIA, CO2, CO2 emissions, colonial, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Education, educational, Electricity, embargo, equality, export, factbook, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fidel, Fidel Castro, GDP, Gini Coefficients, Government, Habana, Haiti, Havana, hdi, History, Honduras, human development index, import, incarceration, Income, Income Inequality, Inequality, Infant Mortality, jail, life expectancy, literacy, migrant, Obama, Population, prison, Spain, tour, travel, Trinidad, UN, US, Vacation, vintage, vintage car, World Bank, World Population
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