The project blended well with Columbia's efforts to create an interdisciplinary Earth Institute to study environmental trends.

Now he is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia and a professor with appointments in three of the university's schools.

Mr Sachs' Earth Institute has received $20m from the same source.

Columbia has given you an $8 million town house for the use of the Earth Institute.

From 2002 to 2006 he directed education programs at the Earth Institute.

She is also developing a curriculum for the Earth Institute at Columbia University on art and advocacy.

It also denies the $500,000 committed to the Earth Institute was an PR stunt.

The Earth Institute was established at Columbia University in 1995.

The Earth Institute has also guided the adoption of sustainable development as a new major at Columbia College.

The Earth Institute is home to cutting-edge research on all aspects of earth systems and sustainable development.