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Church Builds Memorial Garden for Remains of all Southold Residents

The Suffolk Times, Nov 30, 2010

Landscape Design program graduate Loren Fitzsimons recently designed a memorial garden for a church in Southhold, N.Y. that was featured in The Suffolk Times.

The New Congress and the Environmental Sustainability Agenda

The Huffington Post, Nov 29, 2010

As the Republicans prepare to take over the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011, there is little question that the effort to restore momentum to U.S. federal environmental programs will be set back.

As the Presidency Turns: Obama’s Political Soap Opera

The Huffington Post, Nov 22, 2010

The modern political media's business model requires that presidential politics resemble a soap opera; and while Sarah Palin's Alaska ascends the reality show ranks, President Obama reigns as king of the political soaps.

Who Made Me? The Ethical Issues That IVF Families Face

The Huffington Post, Nov 16, 2010

The recent award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Robert Edwards recognizes important research that led to the development of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). But the work that he, along with his late colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, conducted at Cambridge University raises profound questions that, with the evolving modern family, many doctors, patients and potential parents continue to struggle with decades later.

Landscape Design Graduates Launch Blue Dahlia Gardens

School of Continuing Education, Nov 16, 2010

Columbia M.S. in Landscape Design graduates Emma de Caires and Nate Harris have created Blue Dahlia Gardens, a landscape design firm specializing in small urban spaces.

New York City’s Sustainability Plan 2.0

The Huffington Post, Nov 15, 2010

The quality of life goals embedded in PlaNYC2030 can only be reached by a city that does a better job of managing its scarce resources, while reducing its waste and environmental impacts.

Andrew Cuomo’s Leadership and New York’s Green Economic Revival

The Huffington Post, Nov 08, 2010

Andrew Cuomo, the newly elected Governor of New York, faces the challenge of reviving the upstate economy, addressing a structural deficit and convincing entrenched interests, especially public sector unions, to join him in an effort to reform state government.

Understanding the Electorate's Support for the Sustainability Agenda

The Huffington Post, Nov 04, 2010

America is a centrist country, but the political center is being redefined every 18 months. Nevertheless, no matter how the political center shifts, support for clean air, water and land remains strong and fundamental.

Finding our Fossil Fuel Fix: Hydrofracking, Deepwater Drilling and Mountain Top Removal

The Huffington Post, Nov 01, 2010

Hydrofracking, deepwater drilling and mountain top removal are the desperate acts of desperate addicts who will go anywhere and do anything to find their fossil fuel fix. I think it may be time to consider entering rehab.

New York Needs to Reinvent and Not Destroy its Environmental Agency

The Huffington Post, Oct 25, 2010

The next governor of New York will have the opportunity to reinvent the DEC and perhaps set an example for the rest of the country.