Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Article on New MA program in Urban Sustainabilty at CCNY

Sounds pretty good: kudos to CCNY! Given BC has no engineering or architecture program, ours would have a different composition, such as ...?

Teaching urban sustainability to tomorrow’s leaders

By Melanie D.G. Kaplan | Jan 19, 2010

Everywhere we turn, we hear and read about sustainability—whether it’s shopping, eating, building or wasting. Now, our colleges and universities are starting to train the next generation of sustainability experts.

This semester, the City College of New York is introducing a one-year graduate program called Sustainability in the Urban Environment. I recently talked to the program’s director, Latif Jiji, about the kinds of problems students will attempt to solve, the jobs they’ll be qualified for when they graduate and how he’s created his own personal sustainable roof (while beefing up his wine supply).





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