Dr. David L. DownieAssociate Professor of Enviromental Studies |
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Fairfield University announces recipients of 'Sustainability' awards
Faculty members who comprise the Environment Program Steering Committee (EPSC) created the award to recognize an individual or group that have made a demonstrated difference in the quality of sustainability efforts on campus. "To inaugurate the award, the EPSC believed it appropriate to acknowledge the very, very important contributions made in prior years by these members of the Fairfield community," said David Downie, associate professor of politics and director of the Program on the Environment who chairs the committee. "Thus, we are pleased to announce, via unanimous votes, the first winners of this award."
Published in the Fairfield Sun on 1/1/13
David Downie, Ph.D., director of the Program on the Environment, does radio interviews
Dr. Downie discussed the international mercury negotiations as well as the use of coal as an energy source with WNPR. The negotiations for reducing mercury pollution continue in January. Mercury pollution is transported globally in the atmosphere, so mercury emitted far away affects people and ecosystems in the United States, according to the EPA.
Appeared on WNPR in July 2012
David Downie, Ph.D., director of the Program on the Environment, interviewed by WNPR
Dr. Downie discussed global environmental negotiations on WNPR's program, "Where We Live," with host John Dankosky. Dr. Downie's research focuses on the creation, content, and implementation of national and international environmental policy. His recent work includes Global Environmental Politics, 5th Edition (2010), written with Pamela Chasek, Climate Change: A Reference Handbook (2009), written with Kate Brash and Catherine Vaughan, and The Global Environment: Institutions, Law & Policy, 2nd Edition (2005), co-edited with Regina Axelrod and Norman Vig.
Appeared on WNPR's "Where We Live" on 7/11/12
Climate change: Picturing the science
Last night at the Westport Public Library, David Downie, Professor of Environmental Studies at Fairfield University, hosted a lecture featuring Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe, co-authors of Climate Change: Picturing the Science. Schmidt is a climatologist for the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Wolfe is a freelance photojournalist. Together, they portrayed the visible effects of environmental damage specifically as a result of greenhouse gases. Drought. Fires. Severe storms. Shrinking glaciers and a rising water table. A dried up Lake Chad and a drying out Colorado River. Scary scenes of what has already taken place and what we already cannot change. "The science debate should be over," said Downie of whether or not to believe that there is global warming. "This is now down to political will. This is about policy change."
Published in Moffly Media - The Best of Fairfield County Living in September 2011
The promise of green jobs
But the state's budget deficits will most likely prevent the state from even expanding successful programs like the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, said David Downie, director of the Environment Program at Fairfield University... Downie said there are enough people thinking green in Fairfield County these days to support a growing industry. As the economy recovers, he said they have the "means and the interest to make their homes more energy efficient, to consider a solar hot water heater, eat more organic produce, or shop at stores specializing in green products." Whether their interests will be strong enough to drive sustained green job growth will be a function of culture and the economy, he said.
Published in Stamford Advocate, Connecticut Post, Greenwich Time, Danbury News Times, New Canaan News, Intelligent Utility Online on 2/15/2011