Water

Pace students were called upon to find sustainable solutions for some of the most complex and challenging problems our planet has ever faced. By focusing on areas of critical global concern, students became more intellectually attuned to the issues that face us all, more able to envision multiple methods for addressing complex challenges and more engaged as global citizens in the stewardship of our shared resources.

Visiting Scholar Charles Fishman

Pace Academy was pleased to welcome Charles Fishman as its inaugural Visiting Scholar. As a reporter, Charles Fishman has tried to get inside organizations, both familiar and secret, and explain how they work.

In the course of reporting about water to write The Big Thirst, Fishman stood at the bottom of a half-million-gallon sewage tank, sampled water directly from the springs in San Pellegrino, Italy, and Poland Spring, Maine, and carried water on his head for 3 kilometers with a group of Indian villagers.

Fishman is a former metro and national reporter for the Washington Post, and was a reporter and editor at the Orlando Sentinel and the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since 1996, he has worked for the innovative business magazine Fast Company. Fishman has won numerous awards, including three times receiving UCLA’s Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious award in business journalism.