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Kingston Air Quality Initiative at Bard College Reports After Three Years of Monitoring

The Center for the Environment Sciences and Humanities at Bard College is pleased to announce the findings of the Kingston Air Quality Initiative (KAQI) after three consecutive years of research and data collection. KAQI began in January 2020 as a partnership between Bard’s Community Sciences Lab and the City of Kingston Conservation Advisory Council’s Air Quality Subcommittee. Since then, Kingston residents and Bard College students, staff, and faculty have facilitated both indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring projects throughout Ulster County.

Kingston Air Quality Initiative at Bard College Reports After Three Years of Monitoring

The Center for the Environment Sciences and Humanities at Bard College is pleased to announce the findings of the Kingston Air Quality Initiative (KAQI) after three consecutive years of research and data collection.

KAQI began in January 2020 as a partnership between Bard’s Community Sciences Lab and the City of Kingston Conservation Advisory Council’s Air Quality Subcommittee. Since then, Kingston residents and Bard College students, staff, and faculty have facilitated both indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring projects throughout Ulster County. Standing as the first air quality study of its kind in Kingston, KAQI’s monitoring efforts focus on a regional assessment of air pollution as measured from the roof of the Andy Murphy Neighborhood Center on Broadway in Kingston.

KAQI’s main monitoring efforts focus on a regional assessment of air pollution from fine particulate matter (PM2.5), made up of microscopic particles that are the products of burning fuel, and is released into the air through exhausts from oil burners, gas burners, automobiles, cooking, grilling, and both indoor and outdoor wood burning. PM 2.5 particles are so tiny, they stay suspended in the air for long periods of time, allowing them to travel long distances before depositing. When these particles are inhaled, they can enter the bloodstream through the lungs, creating or exacerbating health issues. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that “small particulate pollution has health impacts even at very low concentrations – indeed no threshold has been identified below which no damage to health is observed.”

After 3 years of monitoring in Kingston, air quality trends associated with daily activities are observable. The findings show that air pollution in the city is variable and appears to have a seasonal context—higher levels of pollution are shown during colder months (associated with fuel burning), and lower levels are generally seen in spring and summer. The difference between levels seen during 2020—when COVID shut down many activities and resulted in a decrease in vehicles on the road—and pollution levels detected in years since is also significant.

Two important measures of PM2.5 air quality are the annual mean standard and the 24-hour average standard. Kingston’s PM2.5 air quality met the annual standards of both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the WHO, although it came close to exceeding the latter. For the 24-hour standard, air quality met the EPA’s but exceeded the WHO’s.

As of January, 2023, a revision was proposed to change the EPA's primary public health-based annual standard from its current level of 12.0 micrograms per meter squared  to the range of 9.0-10.0 micrograms per meter squared. This revision would lean closer toward, but not come close to meeting, the WHO's PM 2.5 annual standard of 5 micrograms per meter squared.  Based on the EPA annual mean calculations, these values come close to exceeding the WHO annual standard.

 
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One factor associated with instances of air quality breaching the WHO’s 24-hour threshold is the development of atmospheric inversions, which occur when the temperature of the atmosphere increases instead of decreases with altitude and surface level air parcels are unable to rise up, trapping any present air pollution at ground level. Being in the Hudson Valley, Kingston is more susceptible to inversion events as the air is blocked from all directions.  It's possible that, if Kingston residents were aware of when these events are occurring, we could start making different decisions about woodburning and car use during these times to make our air cleaner for all. Another potential factor may be pollutants from smoke carried from wildfires on the West Coast.

More detail about KAQI’s findings can be found at the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities website: https://cesh.bard.edu/kingston-air-quality-initiative-kaqi/

“While our annual averages meet EPA standards, as many residents of Kingston and the surrounding areas know, air quality at ground level can vary widely from neighborhood to neighborhood,” said Lorraine Farina, co-founder of KAQI  and the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition, and former Kingston CAC air quality sub-committee chair. “The average adult takes in 1000 breaths per hour, and exposures to dangerous fine particulate matter very much depend on whether wood is being burned nearby, as burning wood is dirtier and more polluting than burning oil, gas, or coal. There is no safe level of exposure to PM 2.5, so the expanding neighborhood-level monitoring efforts of the Bard Community Science Lab will help residents understand the actual air quality right where they are breathing, so we can all make choices that benefit both our health and that of the planet.”

“I want to thank Bard and the Community Sciences Lab for allowing Kingston to participate in this initiative,” said Steve Noble, the mayor of Kingston. “I am pleased to see that our air quality is superior to many of the places around us, but it’s a profound reminder that our daily activities do impact our health, and the health of our environment. We appreciate Bard’s investment in monitoring Kingston’s air, as it has been an invaluable learning tool. Together with Kingston’s Conservation Advisory Council, we will continue to monitor local air quality alerts, and will continue to work together with leaders in our region on policy and initiatives for cleaner air.” 

Dr. Eli Dueker, co-director of the Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities, added, “Clean air is something we often take for granted in the Hudson Valley. Our findings show that meeting annual EPA standards (particularly current standards) is one thing, but on a day-to-day basis, our air quality is sometimes degraded and can be unhealthy. After all, we are not breathing on an average yearly basis—we are breathing on a second-by-second basis. We can make decisions as a community to keep our own air clean – for example, we could reduce or even stop our wood-burning in city limits (particularly on days with atmospheric inversions), reduce our car use, and make our homes more energy efficient.”
The Center for the Environment Sciences and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with KAQI, has been working on a handful of air quality related projects centralized around community needs and concerns. These include:
  • Developing a publicly-accessible atmospheric inversion monitoring system for the Kingston area.
  • Neighborhood-level air quality monitoring, through the fast-developing Hudson Valley Library Air Quality Network. Using outdoor real-time air quality monitoring devices stationed at public libraries, air quality data is free and accessible online. We are always looking for new locations throughout the Hudson Valley to add to the network and provide more localized data for residents. If any libraries are interested, please reach out to [email protected].
  • In partnership with SUNY-Albany, conducting indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring in homes with woodsmoke, mold and structurally-related air quality challenges.

For more information or ways to get involved, please visit https://kingston-ny.gov/airquality or https://cesh.bard.edu/kingston-air-quality-initiative-kaqi/.

Post Date: 06-05-2023

Bard Student Research on Housing Justice Cited in Times Union Article “Evicted in Kingston: Voices from a Crisis”

According to a recent Times Union article, the city of Kingston, New York, doesn’t keep track of corporate housing ownership. “But Kwame Holmes, a professor at Bard, and his class did a deep dive on a chunk of Midtown Kingston in 2020, which led to some revealing findings,” the article cites. “Of 481 Midtown properties, non-locals owned 275 . . . Limited liability corporations owned 87 properties, 10 of which shared names with corporate landlords operating in states across the country.” 

Bard Student Research on Housing Justice Cited in Times Union Article “Evicted in Kingston: Voices from a Crisis”

According to a recent Times Union article, the city of Kingston, New York, doesn’t keep track of corporate housing ownership. “But Kwame Holmes, a professor at Bard, and his class did a deep dive on a chunk of Midtown Kingston in 2020, which led to some revealing findings,” the article cites. “Of 481 Midtown properties, non-locals owned 275 . . . Limited liability corporations owned 87 properties, 10 of which shared names with corporate landlords operating in states across the country.” 

In 2020, Kwame Holmes, scholar in residence in the Human Rights Program at Bard, taught a class that examined how housing inequity manifests in Kingston and other areas of Ulster County. Holmes and 13 of his students geocoded and collected information on hundreds of properties in Kingston’s Midtown section to study the data on property ownership and its impacts on the city’s residents. “These dynamics illustrate the extent to which land in Kingston is a site of profit extraction, and very little of that capital directly benefits local residents,” states the Bard report, which produced findings that were shared with community leaders and stakeholders. The class, Housing Justice Lab, was a collaboration of Bard’s Environmental and Urban Studies and Human Rights programs and part of the Bard Center for Civic Engagement Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences Program.

Further Reading
Bard College Human Rights Professor and Students Study Urban Displacement and Gentrification with Kingston Housing Lab
 
Read more in the Times Union

Post Date: 05-16-2023

Myra Young Armstead Spoke with the Times Union about the Life and Legacy of James F. Brown, “One of the Country’s First Black Master Gardeners”

While slave narratives—“first-person retellings of the enslaved experience”—were persuasive to white abolitionists and widely distributed, quieter but no less important details about the early years of emancipation can be found in the diaries of one of the country’s first Black Master Gardeners, James F. Brown. Myra Young Armstead, vice president for academic inclusive excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, spoke with the Times Union about Brown’s life and legacy.

Myra Young Armstead Spoke with the Times Union about the Life and Legacy of James F. Brown, “One of the Country’s First Black Master Gardeners”

While slave narratives—“first-person retellings of the enslaved experience”—were persuasive to white abolitionists and widely distributed, quieter but no less important details about the early years of emancipation can be found in the diaries of one of the country’s first Black Master Gardeners, James F. Brown. Myra Young Armstead, vice president for academic inclusive excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, spoke with the Times Union about Brown’s life and legacy. “In the period before the Civil War, freedom in the most obvious sense for a runaway meant emancipation,” Armstead said. “It also meant freedom from wage slavery, and freedom to operate in the civic sphere. We can explore the many meanings of freedom in the antebellum period through James’s diary.”
Read More in the Times Union

Post Date: 02-14-2023
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  • Associate Professor of Biology Brooke Jude to Lead Regenerative Dye Research as Part of Daughters for Earth Grant

    Associate Professor of Biology Brooke Jude to Lead Regenerative Dye Research as Part of Daughters for Earth Grant

    As part of one of 26 women-led projects in 17 countries, Associate Professor of Biology Brooke Jude will participate in a project to regenerate natural fabric dyeing processes with traditional Moroccan weavers as part of a Daughters for Earth grant awarded to Around the World in 80 Fabrics. “These grants, totaling over $600,000, are a part of our mission to deliver critical resources into the hands of the women on the frontlines of climate action,” says Daughters for Earth of this year’s grant winners. Professor Jude will lead microbial dye foraging alongside our natural plant dye research as part of a team that “will bring together traditional weavers, researchers, designers, textile experts, scientists, anthropologists, and businesswomen to create sustainable dyeing processes that Ain Leuh Women's Cooperative can use.” The cooperative, which was founded by local women in the Atlas Mountain region of Morocco, has used traditional weaving techniques to support their families for decades. Today, because of the pressures of demand from global trade, synthetic dyes are used more frequently, produced with chemicals that impact weaver health and the environment. The collaboration between the Ain Leuh Cooperative, Artisan Project, Around the World in 80 Fabrics, the Microbe Institute, and Bard College will help to create “an open-source natural dye, plant, and microbial resource book with a map and dye recipes,” with the goal of improving the health of Ain Leuh weavers and the health of the local ecosystem.
     
    Learn More about Daughters for Earth
    Learn More about Professor Jude’s Project

    Post Date: 01-08-2023
  • Peter L’Official Interviews Architect and Writer Sekou Cooke on Hip-Hop as a Blueprint for Architecture

    Peter L’Official Interviews Architect and Writer Sekou Cooke on Hip-Hop as a Blueprint for Architecture

    For Architectural Record, Bard Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the American and Indigenous Studies Program Peter L’Official interviews architect and writer Sejou Cooke, who is the curator of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, an exhibition on view at the Museum of Design Atlanta through January 29, 2023. 

    In the interview, L’Official quotes from Cooke’s 2021 book Hip-Hop Architecture: “Many have managed to exist simultaneously as successful architects and Black. Few have managed to express their Blackness through their architecture. Within hip-hop culture lies the blueprint for an architecture that is authentically Black with the power to upend the racist structures within the architectural establishment and ignite a new paradigm of creative production.” L’Official references Toni Morrison’s “unapologetic use of codes embedded in Black culture” and “her own struggle for writing that was ‘indisputably black,’” asking Cooke “Does Hip-Hop Architecture also strive for an architecture that is, after Morrison, ‘indisputably black?’”
    Read the interview in Architectural Record

    Post Date: 12-06-2022
  • Bard Biologists Elias Dueker, Gabriel Perron, Daniella Azulai ’17, and Mary Reid ’21 Copublish Study on the Impacts of Wastewater Treatment Discharge in Saw Kill River

    Bard Biologists Elias Dueker, Gabriel Perron, Daniella Azulai ’17, and Mary Reid ’21 Copublish Study on the Impacts of Wastewater Treatment Discharge in Saw Kill River

    Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies M. Elias Dueker, Associate Professor of Biology Gabriel G. Perron, and Bard biology graduates Daniella Azulai ’17 and Mary Reid ’21 have copublished a new study, “Bacteria communities and water quality parameters in riverine water and sediments near wastewater discharges,” in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Data. ​​Over five months, they monitored microbial contaminants relating to the treated water outflow of the wastewater treatment plant operated by Bard, which releases into the Saw Kill, a tributary of the Hudson River and also the source of fresh water for the campus. This is the first of many datasets and research papers that they hope to publish on Bard’s water system. Preliminary data analyses provide insight into the impacts of watershed-wide usage of the Saw Kill as both drinking water source and treated sewage receiver. Future use of this dataset will include a focus on endotoxins and antibiotic resistant bacterial genes, water contaminants only now gaining broader attention in water quality and microbiological sciences.

    All of the sampling was conducted as a joint Bard Summer Research Institute project between Dueker’s lab and Perron's lab in summer 2015. Lab members included: Marco Spodek ’17, Beckett Lansbury ’16, Yuejiao Wan ’17, Pola Kuhn ’17, Haley Goss-Holmes ’17. Coauthors Azulai and Reid worked on this project both as undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students.

    “This project demonstrates the power of community asking scientific questions, and academia–students, faculty, and staff–being able to help answer those questions through careful observational and applied research,” said Dueker. “Our hope is that this database serves as a tool for researchers and communities around the world trying to respond to stewardship challenges in a science-based and community-accessible way.”
    Read the full study in Scientific Data
    Bard CESH Sawkill Monitoring Program

    Post Date: 10-04-2022
  • “What Is a Pond?”: New Study Coauthored by Bard Professor Robyn L. Smyth Featured on ScienceDaily

    “What Is a Pond?”: New Study Coauthored by Bard Professor Robyn L. Smyth Featured on ScienceDaily

    Nearly everyone can identify a pond, but what, exactly, distinguishes it from a lake or a wetland? Robyn L. Smyth, Bard Center for Environmental Policy faculty member and term associate professor of environmental and urban studies, is coauthor of a new study featured on ScienceDaily that offers the first data-driven, functional definition of a pond and evidence of ponds’ distinct ecological function, which could have broad implications for science and policy.

    Understudied and largely left out of federal and state monitoring and protection programs, ponds are often poorly distinguished from lakes or wetlands. This neglect has implications for the accuracy of climate modeling, as ponds are high emitters of greenhouse gases, and their contribution to the global carbon budget is uncertain. In their study, coauthors wanted to evaluate how scientists and policymakers define ponds and examine whether ponds are functionally distinct from lakes and wetlands. Their findings conclude: Ponds are small and shallow waterbodies, with a maximum surface area of five hectares, a maximum depth of 5 meters and less than 30% emergent vegetation.
    Read more on ScienceDaily

    Post Date: 08-30-2022
  • Bard Professor Peter L’Official Wins Rabkin Prize for Visual Art Journalism

    Bard Professor Peter L’Official Wins Rabkin Prize for Visual Art Journalism

    Peter L’Official, associate professor of literature and director of the American Studies Program at Bard College, has won a Rabkin Prize of $50,000 for his work in visual art journalism. L’Official is one of eight visual art journalists to receive a Rabkin Prize from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Jurors for this sixth cycle of awards were: Eric Gibson (Arts in Review editor of the Wall Street Journal), Sasha Anawalt (Professor Emerita of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism), and Paul Schmelzer (Founder of The Ostracon: Dispatches from Beyond Contemporary Art’s Center).

    “I am humbled to be recognized among such a brilliant group of fellow recipients by the Rabkin Foundation. Thank you to the jurors, the anonymous nominators, the Rabkin Trustees, and—most especially—to all the editors and writers and readers who make the work of arts criticism both possible and worthwhile,” said L’Official.

    Peter L’Official (he/him) is a writer, arts critic, and teacher of literature and American studies from The Bronx, NY. He is an associate professor in literature and director of the American Studies Program at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he teaches courses in African American literature and culture, twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, and on how the visual arts intersect with literature, place, and architecture. He is also the project coordinator for “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck,” a grant supported by the Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Times” Initiative. 

    L'Official is the author of Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin, published by Harvard University Press in 2020. His writing has appeared in Artforum, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Village Voice, and other publications, and he is on the editorial board of The European Review of Books. He has written catalogue essays for exhibitions by artists such as Carl Craig and Becky Suss, and his next book project will explore the intersections of literature, architecture, and Blackness in America. L’Official has a B.A. in English from Williams College, and an M.A. in Journalism from New York University’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. He received his Ph.D. in American studies from Harvard University, and was formerly a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University in 2014-15. 

    Now in its sixth cycle, the Rabkin Prize started in 2017. To date, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation has given a total of $2,775,000 to individual art writers. The award program is by nomination only. A distinguished group of 16 nominators, working in the visual arts in all parts of the country, provided the list of potential winners. The nominators were asked to identify, “The essential visual art journalist working in your part of the country.” Candidates for the award submitted two recent published articles and a brief curriculum vita. Writers can be re-nominated and are eligible until they win a Rabkin Prize. This is an annual program and a central initiative of the foundation.

    This cycle’s other winning journalists include: Shana Nys Dambrot (Los Angeles); Bryn Evans (Decatur, Georgia); Joe Fyfe (New York City); Stacy Pratt (Tulsa); Darryl F. Ratcliff, II (Dallas); Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (Austin); Margo Vansynghel (Seattle). 

    Post Date: 07-19-2022
  • Professor Gidon Eshel Rejects the Inevitability of Famine in Our Present Moment, Offering Alternatives in Bloomberg

    Professor Gidon Eshel Rejects the Inevitability of Famine in Our Present Moment, Offering Alternatives in Bloomberg

    As the world contends with a looming famine crisis, Gidon Eshel, research professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, rejects the narrative of inevitability, offering pragmatic solutions to save millions from going hungry. In the short term, the global livestock feed stockpile of “over 250 million tons of wheat, barley, oats, and other cereals” could be redirected to “lifesaving human food,” Eshel writes for Bloomberg. Long term, reductions in the consumption of beef could accomplish similar ends toward more efficient utilization of wheat and grains. Regardless, famine is not a foregone conclusion, Eshel argues, but rather one that the world, collectively, is choosing. “If, as predicted, millions will soon go hungry, it will not be a ‘Putin famine’ but a readily preventable famine of choice, arising because the people and leaders of wealthy nations have decided that preventing it is too inconvenient,” he concludes.
    Read More in Bloomberg

    Post Date: 05-17-2022

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
  **$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Sunday, December 4, 2022
A Voyage into the Lives of Seeds and Their Communities
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Please join artist and seed story weaver Vivien Sansour as she invites us into the world of her work and Palestinian ancestors by bringing forth a new story about food and community. From Palestine to the marshes of the Hudson Valley, this talk will bring together questions about our attitudes towards food and agriculture, intertwined with the way we interact with all living beings around us.

Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, is an artist who uses installations, images, sketches, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for seed conservation and the protection of agrobiodiversity as a cultural/political act. She works to bring threatened varieties “back to the dinner table to become part of our living culture rather than a relic of the past.”

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Many thanks to the generous donation from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. Cosponsored by Bard Farm, BardEATS, and Experimental Humanities.


Wednesday, November 16, 2022
$65 application fee waivers available to event attendees! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with current students, alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the students and alumni of the programs.

What we cover: Overview of graduate program offerings Student experience Alumni career outcomes General admissions and financial aid informationA $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.


Monday, November 14, 2022
Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality
Olin, Room 102  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Bard’s new Carceral Studies speaker series launches with a visit from the NYU Prison Education Project. Their recently published book Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality explores how the car, despite its association with American freedom and mobility, functions at the crossroads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state. We will be joined by four of the Lab members, a group representing formerly incarcerated scholars and non-formerly incarcerated NYU faculty. 


Tuesday, November 8, 2022
  **$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Monday, November 7, 2022
  5:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Join sustainable finance professionals and students for an evening of casual conversation and networking at the Bard MBA in Sustainability’s Brooklyn location.

Remarks from Cary Krosinsky, author and cofounder of the Sustainable Finance Institute, and Dr. Eban Goodstein, director of the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College, on the “Backlash to the Backlash.” Light refreshments. There is no charge for admission.


Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Bard College launched its MEd in Environmental Education five years ago. Hear from founding educators and alumni/ae on lessons learned.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
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In the US, environmental education is not a formal part of the K-12 curriculum. Rather, in every city, there is an ecosystem of nonprofits, museums and science centers that provide the crucial in-school, after-school, and summer school programs engaging the "screen generation" in the fundamental ideas of ecological literacy. In 2018, Bard's Graduate Programs in Sustainability launched a new master's program for aspiring leaders in this critical work, centering a focus on expanding environmental education access to historically marginalized populations. Cultivating an intersectional analysis of ecology, equity, and justice, the Bard MEd program seeks to push the boundaries of inclusiveness in the environmental education field. Join Bard Professors Scott Kellogg and Caroline Ramaley, as well as Kadijah Spence MEd ’21 and Ben Harris MEd ’24 to discuss the lessons learned from this new experiment in graduate education.


Tuesday, October 11, 2022
  **$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Wednesday, October 5, 2022
$65 application fee waivers available to event attendees! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with current students, alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the students and alumni of the programs.

What we cover: Overview of graduate program offerings Student experience Alumni career outcomes General admissions and financial aid informationA $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.


Thursday, September 29, 2022
  Hegeman 300  5:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join us for refreshments and the celebration of a new academic year at the annual welcome back party for the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities and the Environmental and Urban Studies Program!

The event is from 5:00–8:30 pm in Hegeman 300, located on the third floor. We can't wait to welcome you!


Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about the graduate degree options in our Center for Environmental Policy and our MBA in Sustainability.

ABOUT THE EVENT: 
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni/ae success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS:
MBA in Sustainability 
MEd in Environmental Education 
MS in Climate Science and Policy 
MS in Environmental Policy 

Dual degree options include: 
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching 
MEd/MAT with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard’s MBA in Sustainability

Peace Corps Programs: 
Master's International (before you serve) 
Coverdell Fellows (after you serve) 

A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email the Bard GPS admissions team at [email protected] for additional information. 

RSVP Here!
 


Thursday, August 18, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, August 11, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, August 4, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, July 28, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, July 21, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, July 14, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, July 7, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, June 30, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, June 23, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, June 16, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Tuesday, June 14, 2022
  **$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Thursday, June 9, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, June 2, 2022
  Summer Hours
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd.  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.


Thursday, May 26, 2022 – Friday, August 19, 2022
  Campus Center, Gallery  Happy 200th Birthday Frederick Law Olmsted!

The exhibit features 23 panels of vivid photos and drawings, exploring the many facets of Olmsted’s life and legacy. Curated by Dr. Caroline Mesrobian Hickman of the University of Maryland and in conjunction with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Sponsored by the Bard Arboretum.

For more information, visit: https://olmsted200.org/events/olmsted-exhibit/


Saturday, May 14, 2022
Four Corners Community Farm, 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook  2:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Come out to Four Corners Community Farm on Saturday, May 14 to celebrate springtime with food, local live music, crafts, workshops, gardening demos, a plant sale and more! All events are free and open to the public. Proceeds from the plant sale go to support the Mill Road Elementary School (Red Hook) garden program. Rain date Sunday, May 15. Let's get growing!


Tuesday, May 10, 2022
  **$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Friday, May 6, 2022
  New York's Pathbreaking Climate Law:  Learn and Send in Comments to Law Makers!
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102  12:15 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
New York has some of the most ambitious climate goals in the world: 70% renewable electricity by 2030, 85% reduction in global warming pollution by 2050. The details are now out and open for public comment. So come comment! We'll talk about the law and explore a public comment tool built by Bardians to make it very easy to support climate action. Lots of people will be commenting in opposition, so if you want climate action, come learn how to express yourself.


Saturday, April 30, 2022
Four Corners Community Farm, 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The fourth workshop in this season-long Organic Gardening for Beginners series dives into basic garden bed preparation to boost soil fertility, while maintaining its integrity, thus creating a suitable environment to get your plants off to a great start.  We then introduce alternative garden bed strategies and ask participants to consider which style(s) are right for them. Are you a renter with a small back deck? Maybe container gardens are your perfect match. Do you have a yard with rocky soil? Raised beds might be your best bet. We will discuss different planting practices to help you meet your goals, whether you want an intensive planting style that maximizes yield, or row-by-row for easy weed management. We also talk about the practice of “companion planting” to benefit the many lives in a garden. This workshop is free and open to all.  Please register before Thursday, April 28th, if you need childcare, Spanish interpretation, or (for Bard students) transportation from campus.

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El cuarto taller de este serie de Jardinería Orgánica Para Principiantes arranca con preparación básica de tus camas de cultivo para agregar nutrientes al suelo, mientras mantiene su integridad, y así crear un ambiente adecuado para dar a sus plantas un buen inicio.  Luego introducimos estrategias alternativas para sembrar y preguntamos a los participantes cual(es) estilo(s) es más apto para su situación.  ¿Rentas un departamento con una terraza chiquita?  Tal vez te late sembrar en contenedores.  ¿Tienes un traspatio con suelo muy rocoso?  Camas levantadas pueden ser la mejor opción.  Discutiremos diferentes métodos de siembra para ayudarte a alcanzar tu metas, tanto como un estilo intensivo para maximizar su cosecha, o en filas para manejar malezas más fácilmente.  Además tocaremos el tema del "compañerismo de plantas" en el jardín para aprovechar sus beneficios.  Este taller es gratuito y abierto a todo público.  Favor de registrar antes del jueves, 28 de abril, si requieres guardería para niños, traducción al español, o si eres estudiantes de Bard que quiere transportación desde el campus.


Thursday, April 28, 2022
Beate Liepert, EUS Program
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Monday, April 25, 2022
Hegeman 204A  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Thursday, April 21, 2022
  Online Event  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Rural & Migrant Ministry fought for over 20 years – alongside a coalition of farmworkers and allies across New York State – to pass the historic Farm Laborer Fair Labor Practices Act in January 2019. Join us to learn more and become an active supporter for justice, dignity, and respect for farmworkers across New York State.


Wednesday, April 20, 2022
  Online Event  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us to learn about Migrant Justice and the Milk with Dignity Campaign with Hannaford Supermarket! The Milk with Dignity Program brings together farmworkers, consumers, farmer owners and corporate buyers with the principal goal of fostering a sustainable Northeast dairy industry that advances the human rights of farmworkers, supports the long-term interests of farm owners, and provides an ethical supply chain for retail food companies and consumers.


Tuesday, April 19, 2022
  Online Event  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join a panel discussion with representatives from Migrant Justice, Rural & Migrant Ministry, Local 338, and the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network, to imagine and discuss systems of community care.


Friday, April 15, 2022
 
Engage with professionals working on sustainable development initiatives to learn how to launch your high impact career.

Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.

Sustainable development professionals work around the world to create a more just, equitable, safe, and healthy future for all. Careers can be built in the public or private sector, at large and small organizations. Join this conversation to hear from sustainable development professionals on how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for working in sustainable development, and advice they have for those looking to build careers in the space. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.


Wednesday, April 13, 2022
  $65 application fee waivers available to event attendees! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with current students, alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the students and alumni of the programs.

What we cover: Overview of graduate program offerings Student experience Alumni career outcomes General admissions and financial aid informationA $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.


Wednesday, April 6, 2022
 
Engage with professionals using data to drive sustainability efforts to learn how to launch your career in sustainable data analytics.

Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.

Data analysis forms the foundation of many sustainability initiatives and financial instrumentsworking to drive environmental and social change. Join this conversation to hear from sustainability data experts on how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for working in data analytics and reporting, and advice they have for those looking to build careers in the space. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.


Tuesday, April 5, 2022
  **$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Saturday, April 2, 2022
Four Corners Community Farm, 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The third workshop in this season-long series really digs in: it’s all about soils! What’s the difference between soil and dirt? What types of soils do you have in your garden? How does soil type impact your garden’s needs and how can you improve it? Come learn the answers to these and more as we discuss how to work with the soils you’ve got, how to add organic nutrients and improve water behavior in your soils, and get a sneak peak inside the lives of those ever-busy soil-makers: worms!

Please register by Thursday, March 31 if you need childcare, Spanish interpretation, or (for Bard students) transportation from campus.

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En este tercer taller del serie de la temporada realmente vamos a profundizar: ¡se trata del suelo!  ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre suelo y polvo?  ¿Qué tipo de suelo tienes en tu jardín? ¿Cómo impacta el suelo al éxito de tu jardín y cómo puedes mejorarlo?  Vén aprende las respuestas a estas preguntas y más, mientras discutimos cómo trabajar con diferentes tipos de suelos, agregar nutrientes orgánicos y mejorar la disponibilidad del agua.  Además, veremos cómo criar y agregar los beneficios de uno de los más trabajadores animales subterráneos: ¡las lombrices!

Por favor registrate antes del jueves, 31 de marzo si requieres guardería para niños, traducción al español, o si eres estudiantes de Bard que quiere transportación desde el campus.


Friday, April 1, 2022
  Esme Murdock, Ph.D.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Esme Murdock, Ph.D. will be delivering a presentation titled Keeping Ourselves: The Role of Land and Corporeality in Environmental Justice.

This presentation examines decolonial strategies for storying Environmental Justice education with the messiness of multiple, and many times incommensurable, environmental heritages and identities. Particularly, this presentation explores what the complicating of too-neat narratives of Environmental Justice (EJ) does to open up space in EJ for more complete tellings centering corporeality and relations to land. This presentation relies on on-going concerns within EJ literature about the convergence of EJ narratives into a singular story that often over-determines communities facing environmental injustice as powerless or always already associated with the environment in one-dimensional, largely negative ways. 
 


Wednesday, March 30, 2022
  Campus Center, Multipurpose Room  4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Come enjoy a FREE Low Carbon Dinner in community, with a menu curated by BardEATS’ Teaching Kitchen and Bard Dining. Ask climate experts your most pressing questions, survey your carbon foodprint, find strategies to reduce your diet's climate impact, and find ways to engage in climate action and solutions on campus and beyond.

This is a community meal and all are welcome!

At 5:30 guests will enjoy a short theater performance piece titled  "CRANIAL FRACKING" created by Jean Churchill, with text by Ian Frazier, music by Kyle Gann, and performed by Marguerite San Millan.

Our event will conclude at 6pm where we encourage all guests to join the Worldwide Climate/Justice Teach-In at Olin Hall beginning at 6:15pm. Program Details Here 


Thursday, March 24, 2022
  $65 application fee waiver for event attendees! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
20 Jay St. (Brooklyn)  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with current students, alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the students and alumni of the programs. What we cover: Overview of graduate program offerings Student experience Alumni career outcomes General admissions and financial aid informationA $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.
Please note: At this time all visitors are required to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination prior to arriving on campus. Additionally, the Bard Covid-19 Response Team is requiring all visitors to remain masked while inside. These policies are subject to change, as we continue to closely monitor CDC guidelines.


Sunday, March 13, 2022

 

Four Corners Community Farm, 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook   2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Register here / Registrarte aquí

This second workshop in a season-long series addresses starting and planting seeds for your garden. Should you start them indoors and then transplant them? Or should you plant them directly into the ground? We will discuss why each technique works well for certain types of crops, how to time your indoor starts, and methods of direct seeding for different sizes of gardens.

This workshop is hands-on! We will be in the greenhouse at Four Corners Community Farm starting seeds for your home garden or community plot right here at the farm. Bring a few of your own seeds to the workshop if you want to get some practice and take home the results! Childcare and Spanish interpretation are available. Transportation is available from campus for Bard students. If you would like any of these options prepared for you, please let us know by registering no later than Thursday, March 10. These events are free and open to the public.

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Este segundo taller del serie enfoca en sembrar y transplantar semillas para su jardín. ¿Es mejor empezar adentro y luego transplantar? ¿O es preferible sembrar directo en la tierra? Discutiremos cuáles técnicas funcionan mejor según la variedad de planta, cómo calendarizar su siembra, y los métodos adecuados para diferentes tamaños de jardín. Este taller es teórico pero también pondremos manos a la obra en nuestro invernadero sembrando semillas para su propio jardín o para su parcela adoptiva aquí mismo en la granja. Trae un poco de tu propia semilla para sembrar si quieres adquirir práctica y para llevar a casa el resultado.

Tenemos disponible guardería para niños y traducción al español. Transportación desde el campus de Bard también está disponible para estudiantes. Si deseas cualquier de estos servicios extras, favor de dejarnos saber en su registración antes del jueves 10 de marzo. Estos eventos son gratuitos y abiertos a todo público.


Tuesday, March 8, 2022
  $65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER: Overview of graduate program offerings Alumni success and career outcomes Admissions information Prerequisite course information Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs Financial aid and scholarships Tips for a standout applicationA $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.


Friday, March 4, 2022
  Bard Farm  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Please join us at Montgomery Place visitor center for a hands-on maple sugaring workshop. We will briefly discuss the historical significance and history of our season’s first harvest, production practices and how to identify maple trees in the winter. Participants will also help tap maple trees and set sap buckets. Please dress for the weather!

REGISTER HERE

There are many volunteer opportunities over the next month as well in helping to harvest and boil sap. Many hands make light work! 


Wednesday, March 2, 2022
  Bard Farm  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Please join us at Montgomery Place visitor center for a hands-on maple sugaring workshop. We will briefly discuss the historical significance and history of our season’s first harvest, production practices and how to identify maple trees in the winter. Participants will also help tap maple trees and set sap buckets. Please dress for the weather!

REGISTER HERE

We are offering one additional workshop at Bard Farm on March 4 at 1:00 pm.

There are many volunteer opportunities over the next month as well in helping to harvest and boil sap. Many hands make light work! 


Wednesday, March 2, 2022
 
Join a 30-minute virtual info session to learn how to organize a 3-hour teach-in at your campus or organization on March 30, 2022.

Online Event  10:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
Calling all Climate-Concerned Educators, Students, and Community Members!

On March 30, 2022, more than 1,000 colleges, universities, high schools and K-8 schools worldwide will engage more than half a million people, online and in-person, for a one-day teach-in on climate solutions and justice in the transition. Faith groups, civic organizations, and businesses can participate too.

Time is short: help engage hundreds of people in climate solutions dialogue locally, and hundreds of thousands worldwide. If you care about stabilizing the climate, then please spend 30 minutes learning about how, together, we can change the future.

Join a 30-minute virtual information session to learn how to easily organize a three-hour teach-in on your campus or at your organization, and Bard's plans for this year’s event on campus!


Monday, February 28, 2022
  Bard Farm  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Please join us at Montgomery Place visitor center for a hands-on maple sugaring workshop. We will briefly discuss the historical significance and history of our season’s first harvest, production practices and how to identify maple trees in the winter. Participants will also help tap maple trees and set sap buckets. Please dress for the weather!

REGISTER HERE

We are offering two additional workshops at Bard Farm: March 2 at 4:00 pm and March 4 at 1:00 pm.

There are many volunteer opportunities over the next month as well in helping to harvest and boil sap. Many hands make light work! 


Sunday, February 27, 2022
Red Hook Community Center  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This workshop is the first in a season-long series teaching skills and supporting local gardeners through all the stages of a garden: from planning and planting, through harvest and end-of-year clean up. Sam, from Four Corners Community Farm, will start the Intro to Organic Garden Planning workshop by helping participants understand their goals for planting a garden. Then we will discuss organic gardening principles, how to choose the best location for a garden, planning the types and amounts of crops to grow, and how to ensure multiple harvests throughout the season. We end with hands-on practice in garden design!

Join us at the Red Hook Community Center on Sunday, February 27th at 2pm. Preregistration is required. Childcare is available. Traducción del taller al español será ofrecido. Presented by Four Corners Community Farm, Bard College Farm, and Red Hook Community Center.

Register here or call or text Rebecca at 845-303-6056. Registrants should leave their name and tell us if they need childcare or Spanish translation.  Please email [email protected] with any questions or to arrange transportation from campus.


Wednesday, February 23, 2022
  Engage with professionals driving the regenerative agriculture movement to learn how to build a career working on farming systems. 
Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
RSVP Here

Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.

Regenerative agriculture seeks to rebuild and maintain soil health while also prioritizing high standards for worker fairness and animal welfare. Careers in regenerative agriculture span the food and textile supply chain from production to harvest to procurement and more. Join this conversation to hear from regenerative agriculture leaders working across the industry on how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for working in sustainability agriculture, and advice they have for those looking to build careers in the space. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.


Thursday, February 10, 2022
Sarah Batterman, Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5

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