The Pulse

Eager to go green? The Environmental Consortium’s 10th Annual Conference is coming to Pace PLV on November 8 and 9

On October 23, join Dyson and CHP at a PLV conference examining the consequences of conflict and war on people and the environment.

Do you believe water pollution is illegal? Cage-free hens are contented animals? Climate change is threatening the United States with more hurricanes? Says who? Based on what? Compared to what? Join the conversation on EarthDesk, Pace Academy’s blog.

Check out how one Pace professor is encouraging students to go without common luxuries to discover how their everyday actions affect the world around them.

Skunk cabbage, woodchuck, duckweed. Do you know your plants and animals growing and roaming around the PLV Campus? Dyson Biology and Health Sciences Professor Josh Schwartz, PhD, is giving you the scoop on NaturesPace, a project he’s working on to help you identify them with a quick scan of a QR code.

This week, both campuses go green—peace parks, growing the grassroots, a student who did time for derailing a controversial BLM oil and gas lease auction, and more!

An inside look into the EPA, a lecture on the ineffective delivery of legal services, and a career fair for law school students. A busy week of legal activity for you!

Know someone at Pace with a knack for being green? Let it be known! Nominations are now being accepted for the GreenPace Award—recognizing people, departments, organizations, and clubs that are helping to make Pace a greener place.

Janis Ian was right when she said to beware of plastics. On December 7, the PLV Campus talks trash and how you can help limit single-use items.

Pace student Daniel Hollis is one of the activists at the helm of Pace’s campaign for a sustainable environment, navigating the tricky waters of environmental business regulations and practices so we can all live in a better, cleaner, greener world. He is working to make everyone see that the environmental issues the world faces are in fact, our business as well.

As Earth Month starts to wind down, check out the last set of events featuring birds of prey, honeybee presentations, flower plantings, and more on the PLV Campus.

When Melissa Grigione was growing up in Scarsdale, NY, she would ride her bike to the Bronx Zoo and watch the animals. Repeat: ride her bike 20 miles to the zoo! There, Grigione discovered her true calling–protecting the environment and wildlife all over the world. Learn more about her research…

We may be halfway through Earth Month, but the fun is just getting started. This week, the PLV Campus gets wild animals, the Rio+20 challenge, a solar classroom, bee presentations, free food, and more!

Earth Month is heating up all over the PLV Campus. This week, Don’t Frack With Our Water, an e-waste fundraiser, what overpopulation means for the environment, and much more!

There are quite a few people at Pace who are leading the fight for what they believe in. Angelo Spillo and Michelle Rodriguez are some of the crusaders for our environment. Want to know what Pace thinks of our earth and how to save it? Spillo and Rodriguez are looking for the answer. >>Read More

Do you have an interest in the environment? What about how we interact with nature and the effects on it? Or maybe you’re interested in sustainable living? Right before Earth Month, Pace is hosting the PIERS Student Conference on the NYC Campus on March 23, featuring presentations on everything from sustainable shrimp farming to hydraulic fracturing.

Are you writing a paper on the environment or environmentalism? “Recycle” it at the 2012 PIERS Conference and you could win $200! See? It IS that easy being green.

As registration opens up for Spring 2012, we invite you to Think Blue, with the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies’ interdisciplinary three-credit elective that will have you knee deep in the historic Hudson River.

The new PLV Lecture Series kicks off with a provocative, behind-the-scenes look at environmental decision-making in a faltering global economy on October 18 on the PLV Campus.

From the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies to our Environmental Center to students taking on Big Coal to our celebration of Earth Day every day, you don’t even need to walk off-campus to feel like you’re making a difference in the world.

We have the intelligence. Now we need to get started…on smarter energy, smarter banking, smarter health care, smarter cities, and ultimately a smarter planet. On November 18, find out how you can help build it with IBM and with Pace.

Is your future so bright you have to wear shades? Would you like it to be? On November 5, kick off the first day for the rest of your Good Life with the PIERS Environmental Conference on imagining alternative futures.

Advocacy, meet Technological Innovation. Now can you two quit the frenemying and work together to save our world? Thanks.

Know someone with a knack for being green? Nominations are now being accepted for the GreenPace Awards—recognizing people, departments, organizations, and clubs that are helping to make Pace a greener place.

Attention Law School students: The Environmental Law Society (ELS) wants to celebrate fall with a garden party, featuring food and live music, with a little helping of solar punch!