Now we know. New York's become a center of high performance building. From the glittering Hearst Tower to the Brooklyn Ice House, we're making environmental goals and economic rationality work together. "High Performance Building in New York City", a four-part panel series, showcased this success.
NYC HPB Report (4)
December 31, 2005
Fourth in a series of four panels that took a look at New York City's high performance buildings.
The panel brought together key environmental, architectural, public and economic development policy makers, the "practical visionaries" who are transforming the City's built environment.
October 30, 2005
Third in a series of four panels that look at New York City's high performance buildings. The October 19 forum brought together architects and developers who are transforming the City's built environment.
NYC HPB Report (2)September 30, 2005
Second in a series of four panels that look at New York City's high performance buildings. The September 29 forum heard from client and development innovators who are transforming the City's built environmental by demanding green building design for their projects.
NYC HPB Report (1)June 22, 2005
First in a series of four panels that will address New York City High Performance Buildings the June 8th forum dealt with the policy implications of the New York City Energy Policy Task Force Report.
11 March
Can Carbon Credits Be Credible?
The terms of the domestic and international debate over how to address climate change are shape-shifting while carbon offset credits endure as a tool of climate-change policy. Can carbon offsets achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gases? Are methods proposed for measuring and verifying offsets up to the task-at-hand? Don't miss Carbon Offset Credits: Making Them Credible in Climate-Change Policy
Sponsor: Green Science & Environmental Policy Discussion Group and the Environmental Sciences Section of the New York Academy of Sciences
Speakers: Sasha Lyutse, Natural Resources Defense Council - "The Role of Offsets in a US Cap-and-Trade System: Framing the Political Debate" and Alexia Kelly, World Resources Institute
Moderator: Nancy Anderson, Executive Director, The Sallan Foundation
Date: Thursday March 11, 2010, 6-8 pm
Location: New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, 40th Floor
RSVP: More information and registration NYAS
12 March
Green Jobs Summit
Don't miss the first in a series of programs to define what green jobs are, how to get training for them, and how to enter the new green economy. Presented by practitioners, this half day seminar will help clarify the green jobs universe and teach you what skills are necessary for green jobs. We include public service, engineering, solar installers, energy auditors, legal and paralegal, cleantech venture capital, academic and industry research, teachers, educational institutions and educational tools as the leading edge of green job creation.
Sponsors:The Global Change Foundation, The Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, and the Energy Education Foundation
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 12-6 pm
Location: Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY
24 March
Rising Currents: Projects for NY's Waterfront
MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center joined forces to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation's largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. Though the national debate on infrastructure is currently focused on "shovel-ready" projects that will stimulate the economy, we now have an important opportunity to foster new research and fresh thinking about the use of New York City's harbor and coastline. As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the city's remarkable pool of architectural talent is available to focus on innovation.
An architects-in-residence program at P.S.1 brought together five interdisciplinary teams, including Architecture Research Office (ARO), to re-envision the coastlines of New York and New Jersey around New York Harbor and to imagine new ways to occupy the harbor itself with adaptive "soft" infrastructures that are sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology. These creative solutions are intended to dramatically change our relationship to one of the city's great open spaces.
Dates: March 24 – August 9, 2010
Location: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, Architecture and Design Galleries, 3rd Floor
28 April
On The Changing Waterfront
In 1609, New Yorks future waterfront was an arcadian shore of forests, wetlands, beaches, and sand bars, according to Eric Sanderson's book Mannahatta. That landscape is lost forever, but visions of a post-industrial, neo-natural waterfront are longstanding.
In 1944, futurists Paul and Percival Goodman proposed that Manhattan "open out toward the water, lining its gritty waterfront with new parks. They were prescient: today the waters edge of Manhattan is evolving from a "no-man's-land" into a "highly desirable zone of parks," in the words of writer Phillip Lopate.
The newly designated Manhattan Waterfront Greenway is cobbled together from many bits and pieces like Battery Park City, Hudson River Park, Riverside Park South, restored Harlem River parks, and tiny Stuyvesant Cove Parkeach with its own chronicle of past and present struggles among property owners, community groups, developers, politicians, planners, lawyers, and other stakeholders. Elsewhere in the city, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, Governors Island, the South Bronx Greenway, Pelham Bay South Waterfront Park, the Bronx River Greenway, and Gateway National Recreation Area are among many waterfront works in progress.
Turning the Tide: New York's Waterfront in Transition will address selected topics and issues relating to what has been achieved and what remains to be done to continue the transformation of New Yorks waterfronts.
Sponsors: Dr. Rutherford H. Platt for the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, in collaboration with the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Dates: Wednesdays, February 24, March 17, April 7 & April 28, 5:30-7:30 pm
Location: Session I: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College West Building, E. 68th St and Lexington Ave
Session II, III, IV: The Roosevelt House for Public Policy Institute at Hunter College , 47-49 E. 65th Street
RSVP & Information: Contact Brigid Ripley, 212.3966264 or bripley@hunter.cuny.edu
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Forging partnerships in the City's dense civic and environmental networks is crucial to meeting Sallan's goals. Partnering is a powerful tool for educating the public about the paths leading to high performance cities. It is also the best tool in the kit for cultivating effective action because fruitful partnerships can give birth to something new by bringing together experts with opinion and decision makers and by drawing in both advocates and skeptics.
