CUNY Institute For Sustainable Cities
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Podcast Description
Podcast of events from the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities.
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Carlos Leite - Sao Paulo Sustainability Indicators: the Brazilian Megacity, from Formal to Informal Territories | This talk looks at the challenge of the Sustainable Megacity through Sao Paulo’s experience as a city of 20 million people, with expansion that ranges from formal urban development to the informal context of huge slums. This work signalizes parameters f | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green Infrastructure Event at Roosevelt House, December 2010 | This program is the first in a series designed to increase awareness and dialogue between residents and stakeholders of New York City and other communities in the Hudson Watershed. Recording of a panel discussion held at Roosevelt House, NYC on Wednesday | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning the Tide: Waterfront Parks: Reviving the Estuary: Science, Politics, and Education | Session 4 Wed. April 28, 2010 Reviving the Estuary: Science, Politics, and Education Moderator: Dr. John Waldman, Queens College Speakers/Panelists Deborah A. Mans, Executive Director, NY/NJ Baykeeper Christopher J. Collins, Executive Director, S | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning the Tide: Seizing Opportunities: Waterfront Works in Progress | Session 3 Wed. April 7, 2010 Seizing Opportunities: Waterfront Works in Progress Moderator: Dr. Melissa Checker, Queens College, CUNY Speakers/Panelists Robert Pirani, Regional Plan Association and Governors Island Alliance––Governors Island | 4/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Women of Green | GreenHome NYC is pleased to announce their February 17 monthly forum, The Women of Green, at a location to be determined. In this 1.5 hour presentation, attendees will meet 12 women in the green field, established professionals who are trying and succee | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning the Tide: Waterfront Parks: Old, New, Green, Blue | Session 2 Wed. March 17, 2010: Waterfront Parks: Old, New, Green, Blue Moderator: Dr. Rutherford H. Platt Speakers/Panelists Amy Gavaris, Executive Vice President for the New York Restoration Project Dr. Vicky Gholson, Friends of Riverbank State P | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning the Tide: "Opening Out Towards the Water"– The Big Picture | Session 1: Wed. Feb. 24, 2010: "Opening Out Towards the Water"– The Big Picture Moderator: Dr. William Solecki, Director, CISC Speakers/Panelists Dr. Rutherford H. Platt, Senior Fellow, CISC Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association Lin | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Martin V. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He was born in San Jose, California, and received his PhD in History at the University of Texas in Austin. His pr | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Dr. William Solecki's research focuses on the urban environmental change and urban land use and suburbanization. Solecki is the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and a professor in the Department of Geography at Hunter College, CUNY. | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of climate c | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Owen Gutfreund is an Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. Previously, he was on the faculty at Columbia University, where he taught urban history, urban planning, and international affairs, and served for many years as Dir | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Eric A. Goldstein is a senior attorney and New York City Environment Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. ("NRDC"), a national, non-profit environmental organization. At NRDC, he has worked for more than twenty-five years exclusively o | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Rutherford H. Platt is Professor of Geography Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Cities, City University of New York (CUNY). He directs the Ecological Cities Project, a program of | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Betsy McCully is the author of City at the Water’s Edge: A Natural History of New York (Rutgers University Press, 2007). Spanning a billion years, the book offers a “deep time” perspective on New York, casting the city as a human habitat in the Lowe | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Rohit T. Aggarwala is Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. This office was charged with the creation of PlaNYC A Greener, Greater New York, a comprehensive sustainability plan consisting of 127 separate | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the Wake of the Half Moon | Robert Pirani is Regional Plan Association's Director of Environmental Programs and Executive Director of the Governors Island Alliance. His responsibilities include developing and directing programs in parks and open space advocacy, land use management, | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Prof. Bill Solecki | Saturday, September 5 Prof. Bill Solecki, Hunter College "Environmental Town Hall" Join Professor Bill Solecki, Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, in a moderated town hall for all New York City residents to discuss environmental issu | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Jeremy Friedman | Saturday, August 29 Jeremy Friedman, NYU Sustainability Task Force "Green NYU, Green City, Green World" Learn how NYU is greening their campus and office space and how the exciting changes made there can be made everywhere. | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Bilen Berhanu | Saturday, August 15 Bilen Berhanu, Green Thumb NY "Gardening in the City? Of Course! Window Box and Container Gardening 101" Want to eat from your own garden, but think you don't have enough space? Learn the design elements for a good container or windo | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Dan Miner | Saturday, August 1 Dan Miner, Chair of Sierra Club New York City "Easy Ways Everyone Can Green Their Workplace" Since we spend a majority of our time in our workplace, wouldn't it be nice if it was not only a little more earth friendly, but also healthi | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Andy Padian | Saturday, July 25 Andy Padian, Community Preservation Corp. "How To Curb Catastrophic Waste in Your Home, Condo, Co-op, or Multi-Family Building" Learn 10 things that you can do in your apartment, building, and office to dramatically reduce energy waste | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Dylan Gauthier, Stephan vonMuehlen, Ben Cohen | Saturday, July 18 Dylan Gauthier, Stephan vonMuehlen, Ben Cohen: Mare Liberium & TheFreeSeas.org "How To Build a Boat From Recycled Materials in a Day" Join us as we build a true water-ready 15-foot boat from scratch in an afternoon—made from discarde | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Summer 2009 Governors Island Lecture Series: Carey Pulverman | Saturday, July 11 Carey Pulverman, Lower East Side Ecology Center "Composting in the City? Yes We Can!" The average New York City household discards two pounds of organic waste each day—more than a million tons of organic material a year! Composting | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greening Manhattan's Waterfront | Manhattan's 26-mile shoreline--long dominated by ports, power plants, waste facilities, and highways--is evolving into a chain of parks, greenways, and bike lanes. Join us in discussing what the rivers were in these vast transformations as we envision the | 3/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Senator Liz Krueger | Senator Liz Krueger represents the east side of Manhattan (the 26th District) in the NYS Senate. She is a strong advocate for tenants' rights, affordable housing, improved access to health care and social services, more open government and campaign financ | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Joni Seager | Joni Seager is the Chair of the Department of Geography at Hunter College and has joined the Hunter community just this year. We are very happy and lucky to have her here. Her research interests include feminist environmentalism, environmental costs of mi | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Tess Barton | Tess Barton is the Program Manager for Community Energy, Inc. She specifically manages marketing efforts for Community Energy's Green Power Programs in NY State, such as the program with ConEdison Solutions. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Chris Neidl | Chris Neidl is the Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator at Solar 1 in Stuyvescant Cove Park here in New York City. He initially gained interest in renewable energy as a geography student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and has steadily inc | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Frank Buonaiuto | Frank Buonaiuto is an assistant professor in the geography department at Hunter College. His major research interests include, oceanography, coastal processes, numerical modeling of waves, tides and sediment transport, and are apparent in his current proj | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Laurie Reilly | Laurie Reilly is the communications and special projects director for the Center for Sustainable Energy at Bronx Community College. Ms. Reilly is also the Communications Director for the CUNY Sustainability Project and the author of multiple key sustainab | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Cathleen Breen | Cathleen Breen is a staff member of the New York Public Interest Research Group. She is the Watershed Protection Coordinator and works for the implementation of the 1997 memo of agreement and federal filtration avoidance determinations. Essentially she sp | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Focus the Nation - Bill Solecki | Bill Solecki is a professor in the department of Geography at Hunter College as well as the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities housed here at Hunter in the East Building. Bill’s research interests include urban environmental change an | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CISC Speaker Series | Speaker:Stephen Pekar Description:What made the location of a city desirable in the past was certainly based on accessibility to water. It is no coincidence that most large cities are--or were--port cities. But today, this same proximity to water is per | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CISC Speaker Series | Speaker:Nick Coch Description:What made the location of a city desirable in the past was certainly based on accessibility to water. It is no coincidence that most large cities are--or were--port cities. But today, this same proximity to water is perhaps | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CISC Speaker Series | Speaker:John Waldman Description:What made the location of a city desirable in the past was certainly based on accessibility to water. It is no coincidence that most large cities are--or were--port cities. But today, this same proximity to water is perh | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CISC Speaker Series | Speaker:George Hendrey Description:What made the location of a city desirable in the past was certainly based on accessibility to water. It is no coincidence that most large cities are--or were--port cities. But today, this same proximity to water is pe | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CISC Speaker Series | Speaker:Andy Revkin Description:What made the location of a city desirable in the past was certainly based on accessibility to water. It is no coincidence that most large cities are--or were--port cities. But today, this same proximity to water is perha | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 37 Episodes |
