Tag: Climate Change
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New Paltz Faculty Calls for Divestment from Fossil Fuels of State Pension Fund
SUNY New Paltz Faculty Senate passed a resolution on Dec. 3, co-authored by Scott Minkoff and Brian Obach, that calls for the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) to end their investments into the fossil fuel industry. SUNY New Paltz is a large client of TIAA. “How can we be against climate change…
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Breaking Down Climate Change with David Richardson
The HawkTalk is a TED inspired program. Each semester the TV Studio Production students choose an issue or topic that they are concerned about and then they invite four speakers to come to the studio to share their experience or research on the subject which culminates in a 32 minute program with diverse perspectives. Produced…
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The Fight for Humanity: Local Activist Margaret Human Uses Civil Disobedience to Incite Change
By Victoria Cymbal Packaged and Edited by Victoria Cymbal Global movements are happening left and right to compel government action to avoid the intense impacts of climate change. Many people are refusing to sit and wait for the government to take action and are doing so themselves. New Paltz consists of the many that are…
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Jana Bergere Dares to Care
Story by Liat Guvenc Edited and Packaged by Bridget Peschel On Sept. 20, Jana Bergere attended the SUNY New Paltz Climate Strike. The corners of her lips turned up into a smile when she looked past the podium to a sea of hundreds of people. A year ago, her heart would have been racing and her…
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Class Visits “Perpetual Revolution” Art Exhibition
Showcasing different movements for social change through imagery, the “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” exhibition at New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) wowed SUNY New Paltz professor Dr. Rachel Somerstein and students from her Picture Culture course. Somerstein and her students trekked down to Manhattan to visit the exhibition on Friday, April…
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Largest Climate March in History
By Ella Graffin People herded into the streets of Manhattan from all over the world on The International Day of Peace, Sunday Sept. 21, to take a stand against a complicated climate battle. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, called this battle “a desperate fight, but a beautiful one.” Hundreds of protesters in New York and…
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Super Storm Generation
Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast on Oct. 29, 2012, but it may not have been the worst or last superstorm Americans will see for years to come, according to CNN.com. Sandy is just a taste of what future superstorms will be like, Princeton Professor Michael Oppenheimer said. In the long run, citizens in the…
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Repowering America
You expel 20.2 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. You’re not the only one. So does every other person in the United States. That’s approximately 6,218,772,000 tons. That number, in part, explains why the United States is responsible for 30.3% of the global contribution to global warming. On Oct. 19, the SUNY…