Learning about and engaging with the environment involves the integration of many disciplines and combines the classroom experience with work in the field, fusing theory and practice. At The New School the nucleus of this engagement is the Tishman Environment and Design Center. It is a place for students and faculty from all colleges and schools to gather, interact, and explore shared experiences. It facilitates research, curriculum development, internships, and fieldwork opportunities. It stimulates critical thinking and builds relationships through lectures, public programs, workshops, and conferences.
The center is exactly that, a center of creative work and experience that allows students and faculty to explore the curriculum, share and interact on projects, and research and work with the community at large to explore opportunities for collaboration.
Our environment is the larger New York metropolitan area. There are many opportunities to work with towns, cities, states, non-governmental groups, corporations, other universities, and other organizations. Through the Tishman Environment and Design Center, we hope to connect students and faculty to this broader coalition to enhance learning, civic engagement, and research.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Join us for New York Solar Jobs Days
Summer is nearly here, and we’re urging Albany to put more of that New York sunshine to work already! It’s time to show lawmakers that solar power is a priority for New Yorkers.
We’re teaming up with an incredible group of organizations to do just that at free community events up and down the state. These New York Solar Jobs Days will feature fun solar demos, training from solar job experts, opportunities to talk with local solar companies, and plenty of ways to show your elected official that you care.
Get some sun at the New York Solar Jobs Day nearest you:
New York Solar Jobs Days are a joint project of Vote Solar, Natural Resource Defense Council, Pace Energy & Climate Center, Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Solar Energy Industries Association, New York Solar Energy Industries Association, Citizen’s Campaign for the Environment, Workforce Development Institute, Apollo Alliance, New York League of Conservation Voters, Renewable Energy Long Island, Vision Long Island, The Alliance for a Greater New York, People United for Sustainable Housing, Center for Working Families, Sierra Club, Environment New York and Environmental Advocates of New York. Read more.
TONIGHT!! Beyond Walkability: Examining How Urban Built Environments Affect Health & Health Disparities in New York City
The Tishman Environment and Design Center is excited to announce an event happening tonight!
Beyond Walkability
Examining How Urban Built Environments Affect Health & Health Disparities in New York City
A Lecture by Gina Schellenbaum Lovasi, PhD
April 23, 2012, 6:00pm
2 West 13th Street, Orientation Room, 1st Floor
Dr Lovasi discusses how intersections between the social and built environments in New York City influence health outcomes, and how these intersections can help us understand health disparities across the urban landscape. Using insights from bioethics and epidemiology, the talk explores the roles of agency and participatory processes in urban health.
Gina Lovasi is an assistant professor in Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research examines the effects of how modifiable built and social environments influence cardiovascular and pulmonary health, as well as differences in these effects across population subgroups.
This event is free to the general public!
In the spring of 2013, the Water Tank Project will work with talented artists, as well as local students, to transform New York City’s many water towers into public art installations to raise awareness about water conservation. Learn more at their website, or suggest a water tower in your hood that you’d like to see get a makeover!
(Source: redeyednblue)
“Midtown Manhattan has more energy use than the whole country of Kenya, and New York state uses more energy than all of sub-Saharan Africa. There is just this intense use of energy in cities like New York.”
(via Urban Omnibus » Questioning the Car: A Walk with Mark Gorton)
Nice interview with OpenPlans’ Mark Gorton on his vision for transportation in NYC and beyond. Having worked with Mark for the past five years, I can attest to his commitment to these ideas and his willingness to invest in new ideas to help create change.
We’re screwed guys.
(Via Gothamist)
Eeesh. Here’s a helpful link from the the Office of Emergency Mgmt to see if you live in a hurricane evac zone and what to do about it. (via nycdigital)
Photo Contest: “What does sustainability look like in NYC?”
A Greener Apple Photo Contest—Call for Submissions
You are invited to participate in Greening the Apple’s first photography contest. The topic is, “What does sustainability look like in New York City?” Pick your best work, submit your photos easily online, and have a chance at some exposure and recognition on our blog. Photography is story-telling. Share your stories with the rest of us. Your deadline is midnight, August 12, 2011 (EST).
You might ask, “What is sustainability?” For our purposes here, sustainability incorporates strategies, events, and procedures that meet society’s present needs without compromising the needs for future generations. Sustainable development can be facilitated by policies that integrate environmental, economic, and social values in decision making. This topic is meant to be broad—a way to link your life and what you see to your own definition of sustainability. In other words, how do you see New York City’s connection to the environment?
Who is eligible to enter?
Any citizen from any country, as long as you are 18. If you’re under 18, have a parent or guardian submit your work for you. EPA employees who are not on the contest selection committee are encouraged to submit photo entries. Please read photo submission guidelines for theme requirements listed below.
When can I enter?
You can submit photos any time between now and August 12th, 2011 at midnight EST.
How do I enter?
Entering is easy. The contest runs through Flickr.com, a photo-sharing Web site. If you don’t have an account, signing up is free, simple and fast. Only Flickr.com members will be permitted to submit photos.
Follow these steps:
1. Choose your best work
2. Create a Flickr account if you don’t have one (see http://www.flickr.com/ and click on “Sign up now”)
3. Upload your photos to your account
a. In your photo’s description:
i. Share where the photo was taken
ii. Give a short (15 words or less) description of the photo to help us understand the context
4. Join “A Greener Apple’s” group(http://www.flickr.com/groups/agreenerapple/) Once on the page, click “add photos”
5. Select your photos from your photo stream and click “add to group” on the right hand side of your screen
6. Your photos will become a part of the Group Pool
7. Photos can be any size, as Flickr will resize them automatically (see http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/)
8. Tag your photos “A Greener Apple” so people can easily find them.
What Can I Enter?
This contest’s theme is, “What does sustainability look like in New York City?” Do your best to show the judges your connection to this theme, as it is described at the top of these instructions. Your photos can be of people, buildings, wildlife, issues, bodies of water, events, issues, etc. Be sure that your submission is consistent with our guidelines listed below. EPA reserves the right to remove photo submissions that are not consistent with these guidelines.
Contest entrants may ….
- Enter photos that have been taken within the New York City Metro area
- Enter color, black and white, desaturated, and even infrared photos
- Edit photos however you would like
- Enter photos taken at any date or time
- Enter up to three photos
- Enter photos that have been published or used elsewhere, so long as you have permission to do so and can demonstrate such permission upon request.
Contest entrants may NOT ….
- Enter photos you have not personally taken or created
- Enter photos that are copyrighted or contain other proprietary material unless you clearly indicate you have permission to do so
- Enter photos that depict another person’s or other entity’s work or that promote or endorse services or products (e.g., a photo of a painting or piece of artwork that represents the majority of your photo)
- Enter a photo that significantly features a recognizable commercial brand or product
- Enter a photo that contains obscene, indecent or profane language or images
- Enter a photo that contains threats or defamatory statements
- Enter a photo that contains hate speech directed at race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, religion or disability; or
- Enter a photo that for any other reason would be illegal or prohibited by law.
Awards
- The winner will have his or her photo featured as part of EPA’s “Photo Friday” blog post on “Greening the Apple.” EPA will not pay a monetary prize or provide any other item of value to the winners. By submitting photos for this contest, entrants acknowledge that they will not receive monetary prizes or other compensation.
Featuring
The selection committee will review the submitted photos and pick a winning photo based upon the photo’s ability to creatively showcase the theme described at the top of these instructions. The winner will be announced in late August.
Other Information
Do I need a Flickr account to participate?
You will need a Flickr account to submit photos for “A Greener Apple” photo contest. Creating an account is easy and free (see http://www.flickr.com/ click “Sign Up Now”). You do not need an account to browse the entries.
More info:
http://blog.epa.gov/greeningtheapple/2011/07/08/greening-the-apple%E2%80%99s-first-reader-submitted-photo-contest-%E2%80%9Ca-greener-apple-photo-contest%E2%80%94call-for-submissions%E2%80%9D/
Things to Do: Biodiversity in Our Cities – The Case for Urban Nature
Please join us:
RSVP – events@sustainabilitypractice.net
Date: June 21, 2011
Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm
Venue: The New School 65 West 11th Street Wollman Hall (5th Fl.) New York, NY 10011
Moderator: Marielle Anzelone, Conservation Biologist & Executive Director, NYC Wildflower Week
Panelists: – The following are invited to participate – Marcia Bystryn, Executive Director, New York League of Conservation Voters; Chris Garvin, Partner, Terrapin Bright Green & Senior Associate, Cook+Fox Architects; P. Timon McPhearson, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School; Samara Swanston, Pratt Institute Graduate School of Urban Planning and Hunter College Graduate School for Urban Affairs and Urban Planning
Biodiversity in Our Cities – The Case for Urban Nature:
Did you know that there is nature in New York City? The five boroughs are rich with forests, marshes, and meadows – more nature than any other city in North America. Yet these natural resources are threatened by habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation - the same factors that threaten biodiversity everywhere. In fact, about one-third of the native flora and fauna in the United States faces extinction. In our urbanized world, the idea of cities as “concrete jungles” is inaccurate and only further alienates people from the natural world. Conserving and maintaining the ecosystems on which cities depend is essential to the health, wellbeing, and quality of life of their citizens.
This panel will discuss the status of urban ecology in regional policies and national trends and especially the newly revised PlaNYC which mentions biodiversity and natural systems for the first time. The panel will examine how cities can develop comprehensive, collaborative, and proactive strategies for biodiversity conservation, management and restoration through government policies, public education, grassroots initiatives, business strategies and living systems design.
About SPN:
The Sustainability Practice Network (SPN) is a New-York-based forum for professionals working with corporate responsibility and sustainability issues to build community based on learning, discussion, information and idea exchange. There are over one thousand members on our list-serve, representing practitioners from industry, academia, government and NGO’s. For more information please visit: www.sustainabilitypractice.net
“In the past ten years in New York City, more people were killed in traffic than murdered by guns and every year, more than 70,000 New Yorkers are seriously injured in traffic crashes.”
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