Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Breakfast 8:30 AM
Keynote 9:00 AM
Session I 10:00 AM
Session II 11:30 AM
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues)
New York, NY 10065
Come join us October 12th to hear Alaskan Kate Troll share her stories and insights in dealing with being green in a bright red state. Most importantly Kate’s talk will focus on climate change and her “10 Points of Hope for Progress on Climate Change.”
In her new book, The Great Unconformity: Reflections on Hope in an Imperiled World, she uses the power of adventure storytelling to convey key policy insights and “hope spots” in dealing with the challenges of sustainability and climate change. To inspire and empower others, her talk highlights 10 points of hope for progress on climate change, leading to a robust discussion of the most practical ways to make a difference both personally and professionally.
Kate Troll, a long-time Alaskan, has more than 22 years’ experience in climate and energy policy, coastal management, and fisheries. She’s been elected to public office twice and is currently a regular columnist for the Alaska Dispatch News. In between, she climbs mountains, kayaks with the whales, runs wild rivers, and writes screenplays. The Great Unconformity draws in equal measure from her full career and adventurous life.
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Hunter College West Building, Faculty Dining Room, 8th Floor
Please note that this event is open to the public but registration through this Eventbrite pageis required.
Presented by Yale.nyc, the Yale Alumni Public Health Initiative, City Atlas and the Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College.
A multi-disciplinary conference to imagine the potential for Green Infrastructure to act as a catalyst in driving urban design into the 22nd century.
The Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College joins the City College of New York Student Chapter of the America Society of Landscape Architects to invite students and professionals from design, planning, engineering, and environmental fields to attend a day-long symposium and charrette to identify opportunities and strategies to expand the scope of green infrastructure. This is an opportunity for the next generation of urbanist thinkers to catalyze and interdisciplinary and protracted approach to urban design.
The conference will take place on Friday, April 14, 2017, from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM in the Hunter College West Building, Room HW714.
Landscape architecture professional attendees of the conference will be eligible for 3.0 continuing education credits for attending the conference and participating in the design charrettes.
Advanced registration is required. Click here to register. Registration is $10 for students and $25 for professionals and the public.
Schedule:
Keynote 9:30 to 10:15 AM
Mark A. Focht, Deputy Commissioner & Chief Operating Officer, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
Panel 1: How Can We Design Green Infrastructure with Greater Impact? 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Rebecca Hill, RAFT
Alex Renner, E-Design
Thomas Reeves, FXFOWLE
Andrew Lavallee, Siteworks (moderator)
BYO Brown Bag Lunch 12:00 to 1:00 PM
Panel 2: How Can Green Infrastructure Engage More People and Places? 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Shaun O’Rourke, Green Infrastructure Director, The Trust for Public Land
Jason Smith, Biodiversity Ecologist, NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection
Lindsay Campbell, USDA Forest Service, NYC Urban Field Station
Thomas Rainer, Co-author, Planting in a Post-Wild World
Andrew Lavallee, Siteworks (moderator)
Gowanus Blue Charrette: Designing for Zero CSOs
Introduction 2:45 to 3:15 PM
Andrea Parker, Executive Director, Gowanus Canal Conservancy
Workshop 3:15 to 4:15 PM
Break into interdisciplinary groups to address design challenge.
Conclusion 4:15 to 5:00 PM
Presentation of designs and final remarks.
THE ETHICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE PLANNING
October 21st, 6:30-8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198 (Basement)
“RENEWING RELATIVES: INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE PLANNING”
-Kyle Pows Whyte, (Philosophy, Timnick Chair in the Humanities; Michigan State University)
INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE IN THE NEW YORK CITY REGION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE VISIONMAKING
-Eric Sanderson (Wildlife Conservation Society; www.visionmaker.us/nyc)
*Sponsored by the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department (CUNY GC), hosted by the Economic Democracy Project, and co-sponsored by the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay (www.srijb.org) and Students for a Democratic Alternative (SODA/CUNY).
These two talks address the importance of indigenous perspectives in making rural and urban areas more ecologically sustainable and socially resilient. Kyle and Eric will discuss how current planning practices (from GIS to multistakeholder processes) can benefit from a long view of ecological history and the integration of contemporary indigenous knowledges and practices in the context of municipal, state, national and international planning for climate change that addresses economic inequality and the demands of democracy.
-contact: morphospace@gmail.com
ABSTRACT for “Renewing Relatives: Theories, Cases and Experiences of Indigenous Resilience Planning” by Kyle Pows Whyte:
Indigenous peoples have long standing planning practices that their communities relied on since time immemorial. The resurgence of these planning practices is a major way in which Indigenous peoples in North American and beyond are addressing a range of sustainability issues, from climate change adaptation to environmental justice. This presentation covers the background theories and ideas that inform Indigenous planning practices and some key cases. Dr. Whyte will draw on his own experiences working on Tribal climate change planning in the Great Lakes region as well as on U.S. climate policy issues that affect Tribes. A key part of the presentation will be the exploration of Indigenous concepts of resilience and their relationship to the planning efforts of Indigenous communities and nations.
BIO for KYLE POWS WHYTE
Kyle holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is a faculty member of the Environmental Philosophy & Ethics graduate concentration and serves as a faculty affiliate of the American Indian Studies and Environmental Science & Policy programs. His primary research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and climate science organizations. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. His articles have appeared in journals such as Climatic Change, Sustainability Science, Environmental Justice, Hypatia, Ecological Processes, Synthese, Human Ecology, Journal of Global Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Policy & Environment, and Ethics & the Environment.
Kyle’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Climate Science Center, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center, Mellon Foundation, Sustainable Michigan Endowed Program and Spencer Foundation. He serves on the U.S. Department of Interior’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science and is involved in the Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Everybody Eats: Cultivating Food Democracy, Humanities for the Environment, the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Indigenous Philosophers.
ABSTRACT FOR: INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE
IN THE NEW YORK CITY REGION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE VISIONMAKING
When Henry Hudson arrived on September 12, 1609, the long narrow wooded island called Mannahatta represented an ecological development millions of years in the making and housed an indigenous people, the Lenape, who were only the latest in a human history that stretches back nearly 8000 years in the New York City region. The Mannahatta Project, on the historical landscape ecology of Manhattan, encouraged New Yorkers not only to take to heart the indigenous past, but to think forward about what the next 400 years might bring to the city. Over the last six years, two further projects have grown out of Mannahatta. The Welikia Project explores the historical ecology of the rest of New York City in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island; and Visionmaker.nyc gives all New Yorkers a free, web-based tool to develop and share visions of future sustainability and landscape resilience. Dr. Sanderson will describe the latest finding from the Welikia and Visionmaker projects and connect them to current efforts to protect, restore, and cherish the nature in New York City.
BIO for ERIC SANDERSON
Eric W. Sanderson is a Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the author of two books: Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (Abrams, 2009) and Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs (Abrams, 2013). He also teaches periodically at Columbia University and New York University (NYU) and serves on the board of the Natural Areas Conservancy, a public/private organization committed to supporting New York’s 10,000 acres of wild lands, and the executive council of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. Trained as an ecosystem and landscape ecologist, Sanderson is committed to helping cities understand their critical role in the conservation of nature, starting with his home in New York. WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
ISC’s Dr. Peter Marcotullio will be presenting at the 9th annual Nature, Ecology & Society Colloquium on March 5th, 2010
Getting at Environmental Justice: Science, Discourse & Action
Friday, March 5th, 2010 9:00am – 5:00pm
Martin E. Segal Theater CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016
Speakers, presentations, posters, roundtable discussions, films, food, fun!!!
The event is free but you must register at http://opencuny.org/nature/registration
Click here to download the flyer with more information.
Climate Justice: Politics, Culture, Economics
Co-sponsored by the Center for Place Culture and Politics
In light of the Copenhagen summit and the widening gap between industrialized nations, developing nations, and the rest of the global South, this event will examine the political, economic, and cultural impacts of climate change. Featuring Michael Dorsey, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth University, and Allan Frei, Deputy Director, the Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College and Associate Professor of Geography, Hunter College, CUNY.
Moderated by Ashley Dawson, Associate Professor of English, the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Monday, February 22nd, 6:30 pm
The Martin E. Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
