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Single-Use Plastic and Decarbonization

Posted on April 5, 2022 by climatechangefork

Source: Advanced Waste Solutions As I mentioned in last week’s blog, I will temporarily leave the topic of the devastating Russian aggression against Ukraine and shift back to the impending global environmental threats connected to climate change. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged CUNY, legislation, NY, NYC, NYPIRG, plastic, Pollution, Russia, SUNY, SUP, Ukraine, university, War, waste, zero carbon | Leave a comment

“Me” and “They” and “Us” in Campus Politics

Posted on December 28, 2021 by climatechangefork

This is my last blog of 2021, a year that has been—to put it mildly—not great for almost anybody. Let us hope that 2022 will unfold to be a better one. It is a challenge to write the last blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Brookln College, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, environmental studies, funding, humanity, Interdisciplinary, pandemic, Sayre, Science, tenure, university | Leave a comment

Help: How Can We Set Up an Energy Education Park?

Posted on March 24, 2021 by climatechangefork

In 2012, I was with Vinit Parmar, filming the energy transition in the Sundarbans region in India as it moved from traditional hunter-gatherer life to an electrified society (Quest for Energy – 2012, see the April 29, 2014 blog). In … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, community, CUNY, Electricity, Energy, energy transition, India, learning, Mitigation, NY, Power, Renewable, Research, Solar, Sundarbans, Teaching, Technology, university | 3 Comments

Can We Reopen Schools? Who Loses Out if We Don’t?

Posted on September 29, 2020 by climatechangefork

I just read an important op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, “‘Remote Learning’ Is Often an Oxymoron: We need to try harder to get kids back in school.” The essence of the piece is that, while rich … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arizona, Barron Trump, Brooklyn College, campus, China, Class, computer, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Development, distanced learning, Donald Trump, dropout, Economics, Education, Food, Holocaust, Hurricane, in person, infected, infection, Katrina, learning, lunch, mandate, mask, off-line, offline, online, open, Palestine, pandemic, parents, privilege, quarantine, Race, reopen, resource, safety, School, social, social distance, social distancing, socio-economic, socioeconomic, spread, students, support system, teachers, Teaching, Trump, university, Uruguay, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Wuhan | 9 Comments

School Curriculum: The NYT

Posted on August 25, 2020 by climatechangefork

Why do we send our kids to school? Why did our parents send us to school? People are wondering this more than ever, now that many schools are still closed physically and have moved to an online educational experience. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Water | Tagged college, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, database, democracy, Desalination, distanced learning, Fresh Water, Future, hamburger, index, learning, learning network, lesson plan, pandemic, Resources, Salt Water, Saudi Arabia, School, Science, social distance, students, Teaching, university, Water, water quality, Water Scarcity, Water Stress, weather report | 2 Comments

Energy Saving on Specific Campuses

Posted on July 21, 2020 by climatechangefork

There are two branches to making campuses more sustainable: reducing carbon emissions (with the objective of zero carbon by mid-century) and increasing resiliency in the energy supply. We have dealt with both objectives throughout this blog. One campus’ conversion to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Electricity, Energy, Sustainability | Tagged America, carbon emissions, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, Drought, Energy, energy distribution, energy efficiency, energy production, energy transition, Extreme Weather, fossil fuel, fuel, global energy transition, Global Warming, independent grid, lab, laboratory, Microgrid, Net-Zero, New York, North America, NYC, NYU, Power, renewable energy, renewables, resiliency, smart grid, Solar, stuttering energy transition, Texas, university, US, UT Austin, Wind, zero carbon | 2 Comments

Campus Transition into Sustainability Teaching Laboratory

Posted on June 18, 2019 by climatechangefork

My May 28th blog discussed the Sierra Club’s ranking of university campuses’ sustainability conversions. I also included the organization’s methodology. Later, in my June 4th blog, I suggested that campuses could convert this transitional process into a teaching moment — … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, bicycle, bike, carpool, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, coal mining, college, commute, compost, contractor, conversion, divest, divestment, e waste, Education, Emissions, Energy, Energy Consumption, energy transition, energy use, Environment, ewaste, food waste, Future, Geothermal, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hydroelectric, innovation, Investment, lab, laboratory, learning, LED, Local, mass transit, mining, Mitigation, offset, organic, outreach, paper, publication, Recycling, Renewable, renewable energy, Research, runoff, School, Science, scientific literacy, scope, Sierra Club, Solar, storm water, students, Sustainability, Sustainable, tar sands, telecommute, university, US, vegan, vegetarian, waste, waste reduction, Water, water consumption, Wind | 4 Comments

Campus Sustainability – National

Posted on May 28, 2019 by climatechangefork

About three weeks ago, shortly after spring began, The New York Times ran a short article about how local leaders in many communities are approaching adaptation to the major increase in flooding. Two short paragraphs capture the essence of the … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability | Tagged adapt, Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Arizona, campus, Carbon, carbon neutral, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, college, Colorado, dike, Education, Efficiency, efficient, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, finger in the dike, Flood, fossil fuel, Future, Global Warming, Government, greenhouse gas, human caused, mitigate, Mitigation, Policy, private, public, School, Science, Sierra Club, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technology, technology fee, university, US | 1 Comment

Playing for a Better Future

Posted on January 17, 2017 by climatechangefork

It’s time to stop crying over spilled milk! No more speculating; we need to prepare for the future. What kind of future will that be? My paid job is to prepare students to face their futures. I have also taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Conference, Donald Trump, Economics, Education, Election, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Future, Global Warming, half life, livability, Nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, nuclear weapon, Physics, Physics & Society, plutonium, Power Plants, radiation, Science, Sustainability, teach, Teaching, Technology, university, UPenn, Warning, WIPP, World Population | 2 Comments

Prerequisites

Posted on November 29, 2016 by climatechangefork

Last week I posted a figure from the Economist that summarizes how various constituencies voted in the American presidential elections. I promised I’d focus on some of the non-racial factors that made a significant impact on the results. Let’s look … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Election, Sustainability | Tagged accessibility, America, Anthropocene, Clinton, college, CUNY, democracy, Democrat, deplorable, Donald Trump, Economy, Education, elect, Election, eligibility, eligible, Future, Gender, globalization, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, learn, learning, political party, politician, politics, prerequisite, president, Race, Republican, resource, Science, skill, SUNY, Teaching, tertiary, Trump, university, US, vote, voter, Voting | 1 Comment

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