Recent Articles
From the September 2005 issue of Geotimes magazine:
"A Changing Climate for Human Evolution"
Co-authored by Beth Christensen, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program




Environmentally Benign Energy Technologies
Marco Castaldi
Monday, January 30, 1:10 PM
(Pizza at 1:00 PM)
Levermore 309

Energy demands will increase as industrialized nations strive to maintain progress and productivity gains and as developing nations increase their consumption and productivity. One direction that is evolving to satisfy the demand while minimizing environmental impacts is to move toward a hydrogen economy, however for the foreseeable future, it will be met through the increased usage of fossil fuel. This realization has raised some questions about the responsible use of fossil fuel and as such it is critical that a Greenhouse Gas Management strategy/technology be developed to forestall projected global warming and its impacts.

This presentation will touch upon four types of energy technologies being investigated at Columbia University. They are waste to energy, greenhouse gas reforming, methane production from methane hydrates and hydrogen production from coal. A unifying aspect that all these technologies share is their positive impact on the environment while meeting the energy needs of society.

The 7th National Conference on Science

Policy and the Environment: Integrating Environment and Human Health
Thursday and Friday, February 1 and 2


The 2010 Imperative Global Emergency Teach-In
Tuesday, February 20,12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Environmental Studies Program invites your participation (it is free of any charge) in addressing global warming and climate change.

It is an extra-mural interactive web-cast broadcast live from New York Academy of Sciences, reaching more than 500,000 students, faculty, deans and practicing professionals in the architecture, planning and design communities in both North and South America (communities from other continents will also participate).

Visit www.2010imperative.org to identify the parties involved, to review all information and to register if you wish as an individual, an academic Program, and/or as a School of Adelphi.


Biology and Natural History: Their Sad Divorce and Prospects for Reconciliation
Robert M. Pyle
Wednesday, March 15, 7:00 PM
University Center Ballroom
Sponsored by the 19th Annual Joseph Napolitano Memorial Lecture in Biology

Dr. Robert Pyle holds a doctorate in conservation ecology from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and is the author of 14 books on various aspects of natural history.