Sponsors: NYC Council, NYIRN, ITAC and many more
Panelists: Ron Ingber, American Cleaning Solutions, John Webber, Carpenter, Physical Plant Services, CUNY
Moderator: Catherine Barton, Corporate Director of Business Development, Green Depot
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 2-4 pm
Location: Jacob K Javits Convention Center 655 West 34th Street, Special Events Hall, Room D
Registration: Free entry to Spec It Green with advanced registration to Buildings NY show. Register here
]]>Keynote address:
John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress, and former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
Panel discussion:
Susan Anderson, Director of Sustainable Development, City of Portland, Oregon, Kenny Esser, Policy Advisor, Office of New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine, James T. Gallagher, Senior Vice President for Energy Policy, NYC Economic Development Corporation, Ashok Gupta, Air and Energy Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, Max Schulz, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Center for Energy Policy and the Environment
Moderator:
Andrew C. Revkin, Science Reporter, The New York Times
The Challenge of Energy Efficiency is the inaugural program in the Cities Respond to Climate Change series. Con Edison has generously underwritten both this program and a new scholarship fund to train the next generation of leaders in sustainable urban development at Milano.
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 6-8 pm
Location: New School for Social Research, Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street).
Registration: Free, but registration required. Click here
]]>For one evening only, Solar One has invited choreographers Patricia Hoffbauer, Dan Safer and Marlies Yearby to perform on our outdoor stage. These three well-known choreographers will ask dancers to join them in exploring three concepts: self-involvement, co-dependence and perfect balance. Each artist will design their own 15-minute section and reveal to their dancers and to the audience, in the minutes before the performance, the structure they have envisioned. In this way, the immediacy of improvisation is conveyed. The audience understands the challenge and witnesses the ingenuity of the performers in initiating solutions. The sound for In the Air and Now is solar-powered, using energy from the panels on the Solar 1 roof.
Date: Thursday, July 10, 6pm. NOTE: Rain Date Friday, July 11, 6pm
Location: Solar One, The East River@23rd Street
For more information: Solar One
]]>Sponsor: GreenHomeNYC
Location: Pratt Institute Manhattan, 144 West 14th Street, Room 213
Speaker:
Emmaia Gelman, Center for Working Families-Emma has worked on housing, queer rights and other democracy issues in New York, Palestine and Ireland over the last 15 years. She is currently Senior Policy Organizer at the Center for Working Families, focusing on scaling-up New York State's green economy with mass residential retrofits, green job ladders and tenant affordability safeguards. Her work includes bringing together labor, housing, environmental and community workforce groups to generate greening policy plans.
Moderator:
Kristine Reed, Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation, Director of the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn. (BEDC, founded in 1979, focuses on neighborhood and business support to create and sustain living wage jobs for Brooklyn residents; the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn identifies specific industry segments with special potential to grow and thrive over the next 5-7 years.) Kristine joined BEDC in 2006 after 25 years in financial services, both on staff and freelancing, with a specialty in marketing and product management with Citibank, Chase, and Mellon among others. A graduate of Barnard College, she and her family are long-time Brooklyn residents.
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 6:30-8pm
The Green Building Forum is held on the third Wednesday of each month (except December) and features presentations by green building practitioners followed by discussion. The events are always free and open to the general public.
]]>With seventy sessions over three days the conference will offer opportunities to engage with experienced practitioners and key thought leaders in energy efficiency as well as provide plentiful networking opportunities. Detailed information about the program, schedule, presenters, a growing list of sponsors, a video from the 2006 conference, and more can be accessed from the AEA conference homepage
Conference themes include:
o Program Design Approaches
o Energy Efficiency Implementation Strategies
o Benchmarking, Measurement and Evaluation
o Advanced Technology and Renewable Energy
o Green Collar Jobs and Workforce Development
o EnergyStar® & LEED New Construction and Gut Rehab
o Requisites for Action: Health, Safety, and Technical Considerations
Date: Monday, July 21-Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Location: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. Hotel and travel details are posted on the site.
Registration: Association for Energy Affordability. (Attendees are encouraged to register now to take advantage of guest room discounts for the conference.)
]]>"Pollution trading ... is a US invention now at the centre of efforts to address climate change worldwide. It's being enthusiastically pushed by governments, international organisations, business and even many NGOs...The rest of this special report will argue that this approach isn't working, and even threatens to derail more constructive movements to address global warming. The US experience with pollution trading is an argument not for, but rather against, greenhouse-gas trading programmes such as the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme."
Location: Room 1, Friends School, 15 Rutherford Place, Manhattan
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 7 pm
]]>The Solar-Powered Dance Series will feature programs by choreographers from an eclectic mix of emerging dance companies that work in a variety of styles, ranging from circus to post-modern to urban contemporary. This juried selection features dance that is theatrical, energetic and suitable for all ages.
Program A (July 24th – 26th) features:
Sara Joel, Daniela Hoff Dance Company, Sarah Council Dance Projects, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, alexanDance, the Tattooed Ballerinas
Program B (July 31st – August 2nd) features:
Paradizo Dance, Kirstin Kapustik, RETTOCAMME, RedWall Dance Theatre, Alexandra Joye Houston, Jamie Chandler
Location: The outdoor Solar 1 performance stage is located at the northern edge of Stuyvesant Cove at E. 23rd and the East River, adjacent to its green energy arts & education center.
Dates: July 24 - August 2, 6-8 pm
]]>Here's your chance to know what's new and green in NYC. Andrea Polli of Hunter College will speak about urban wind power.
Location: Governors Island, Pershing Hall
Date: Saturday, August 23, 12:30 pm
For more information on Governors Island, including ferry schedules. Start here
]]>Join Bill Solecki, Director of CUNY's Institute for Sustainable Cities, and fellow New Yorkers in an open forum for envisioning a green future for the Big Apple.
Date: Saturday, August 30, 12:30 pm
Location: Governors Island, Pershing Hall
]]>Sponsor: Regional Plan Association
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 5:30-7:30 pm
Location: India House, One Hanover Square, Manhattan
Registration: This event is free but reservations are required. Call RPA at (212) 253-2727, ext. 310, or email katie@rpa.org
]]>Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 12:45-3:00 pm
Registration: For information and registration visit Green Edge NYC
]]>Sponsors: The Sallan Foundation and American Institute of Architects-NY Committee on the Environment [COTE]
Panelists:
Michael Bobker, Director, Buildings Performance Lab, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems
and author of Decoding the Code
Chris Garvin, Architect, Cook + Fox, Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board and Green Codes Task Force.
Thomas Congdon, Assistant Secretary for Energy in Governor Paterson’s office
Respondent:
Charles Griffith, Polshek Partnership Architects, Co-Chair COTE
Date: Monday September 22, 2008, 6-8 pm
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, 6-8 pm
RSVP: COTE General admission $20, COTE members free. CES LUs: 1.5, CES HSW: 1.5
]]>Sponsor: AIA COTE
INTRODUCTION
Pat Sapinsley, AIA, LEED AP, Good Energies
SPEAKERS
Nilda Mesa, Assistant Vice President of Environmental Stewardship, Columbia University . Nilda’s work includes incorporating green building standards into construction and operations, working with green roofs, establishing a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, a surplus reuse program that keeps furniture and equipment out of landfills, as well as organizing recycling and energy competitions and initiatives, and developing energy-saving strategies to reduce carbon emissions. The department was established in the fall of 1996. Prior to joining Columbia, Nilda held various positions in the Clinton/Gore Administration, working with the EPA and the White House Council for Environmental Quality. She was Assistant Deputy for the Environment at the US Air Force and worked in the California Attorney General’s office doing Environmental Law. She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and is a practicing artist.
Debera Johnson, Academic Director of Sustainability at Pratt Institute where she is also the Director of the Design Incubator for Sustainable/Social Innovation. She served as Chairperson of the Industrial Design department from 1998 through 2005 and remains on the ID Faculty and as chair of the New York City chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Debera has recently founded the non-profit “Design in Kind” a collaborative network of designs who work with people doing world changing projects in heath care, education and the environment. She graduated from Pratt with a bachelor’s degree in industrial design in 1986.
Melissa Wright, Policy Advisor on Energy and Special Projects NYC Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability, PlaNYC 2030. Melissa Wright is a Policy Advisor on Energy and Special Projects with the New York City’s Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability. Melissa’s portfolio includes the development of citywide sustainability metrics, management of the Mayoral Challenge to local universities and other institutions in reducing their carbon emissions, expansion of lighting training resources, and other energy and broad sustainability initiatives. Before joining the Bloomberg Administration, Melissa worked for a regional urban planning and land conservation organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Melissa is a graduate of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and Oberlin College.
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 6:00–8:00pm
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (north of Bleecker Street)
RSVP: AIA-NY Member Price-Free, Nonmember Price-$20
AIA New York Chapter CES LUs: 1.5, CES HSW: 1.5
]]>Sponsors: Green Science and Environmental Systems, a PS&E program at the New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section
Moderator: George Hendrey, Queens College, CUNY
Speakers:
Klaus Lackner, Columbia University;
Sanjoy Banerjee, The City College of New York/CUNY;
Charles Komanoff; Komanoff Engineering Association
RSVP: NYAS
Reception To Follow.
]]>Today, the challenges of global warming, geo-strategic problems of access to fossil fuels and increasing world-wide demand for energy resources have ignited renewed controversy and a new sense of urgency over questions about expanding our reliance on nuclear power plants.
Sponsors: The Sallan Foundation, the Energy, Environmental Law and International Law Committees of the New York City Bar Association, and the Environmental Law Institute are event sponsors.
Introduction: Edna Sussman, Houget, Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP
Panelists:
An International Perspective
Maggie Lemmerman, Energy Policy Advisor, Global Issues Group, British Embassy, Washington, DC
Pro's and Con's of New Domestic Nuclear Energy
Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies
Carey W. Fleming, Senior Counsel, Constellation Energy Nuclear Group LLC
Dr. Edwin Lyman, Senior Staff Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Caren Byrd, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking Division
Moderator: Eileen Millet, Gibbons PC
Closing Remarks: Nancy Anderson, Ph.D., Sallan Foundation
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8-11:30 am (with breakfast 8:30- 9 am)
Location: New York City Bar Association, Great Hall, 42 West 44th Street
RSVP: The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, e-mail Judith Wallace, wallace@clm.com. For any additional information, please contact Chris Fazio, fazio@clm.com or 212.238.8754
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