this meeting comes out of the extraordinary brooklyn food conference that brought together 3000 people and 300 groups last spring, i'll post more details on the agenda next week, mm
Flatbush Community Meeting
Want to improve access to good, healthy food in our community?
Want to work with Flatbush neighbors to improve our health and environment?
Come to the 1st Flatbush neighborhood meeting of the Brooklyn Food Coalition
Wednesday September 23rd 7pm
Brooklyn College—301 Roosevelt Hall
Bedford Ave. between Campus Rd & Ave. I
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for healthy, tasty, and affordable food.
We derive our ideas and our strength from local participation in the food movement, from people getting together in their neighborhoods to address their communities’ needs for a new food system. We want all decisions to be transparent and for decision-making to be available to everyone. Right now we have groups in 7 neighborhoods in Brooklyn and we are working toward organizing more. Thus the most important action unit will be the neighborhood groups. Each neighborhood group will send representatives to a Council of Neighborhood Organizations that will unite communities around common issues and projects, improving the food system in Brooklyn together.
Please invite your friends and neighbors. All welcome.
For more information: pieranna@aol.com, nancyromer@gmail.com,
Interested in improving School Food? Labor Rights for workers? Expanded community gardens and urban farms? Food Coops, CSAs and more healthy food markets? Community education on health and the environment? Other food-related issues?
This is your meeting!
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
PSC EARTH DAY EVENT, Apr 22
“Getting up to Speed on LEED:
Greening our CUNY Workplaces”
Wed April 22
6:30-8:30
PSC CUNY 61 Broadway 16th floor
What better way to spend Earth Day then to join us in this special PSC Environmental Health and Safety and Green Team program.
CUNY is currently planning LEED Silver certification for new buildings on 11 CUNY campuses (see list * below). The certification process involves an interesting list of details for making buildings more energy efficient, more sustainable and in general, more environmentally friendly. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The process for certification involves working with the occupants of the new buildings. And those participants are us!
Come join us as our speaker:
Jodi Smits Anderson, AIA, LEED-AP
Director, Sustainability Programs at DASNY
introduces us to the LEED process and gives us the opportunity to participate in a workshop (a charette in architectural terms) for ‘greening’ a sample building. Ms. Smits Anderson has conducted many charettes including one at a recent NYSUT Environmental Health and Safety Conference.
* CUNY is currently planning LEED certification for new buildings at:
BMCC; Baruch; Brooklyn Bronx CC; CCNY; Hunter; JJay; Leh; Medgar; NYCCT; Queens
Come join us, and circulate this announcement to lists of faculty and staff who may be interested.
Greening our CUNY Workplaces”
Wed April 22
6:30-8:30
PSC CUNY 61 Broadway 16th floor
What better way to spend Earth Day then to join us in this special PSC Environmental Health and Safety and Green Team program.
CUNY is currently planning LEED Silver certification for new buildings on 11 CUNY campuses (see list * below). The certification process involves an interesting list of details for making buildings more energy efficient, more sustainable and in general, more environmentally friendly. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The process for certification involves working with the occupants of the new buildings. And those participants are us!
Come join us as our speaker:
Jodi Smits Anderson, AIA, LEED-AP
Director, Sustainability Programs at DASNY
introduces us to the LEED process and gives us the opportunity to participate in a workshop (a charette in architectural terms) for ‘greening’ a sample building. Ms. Smits Anderson has conducted many charettes including one at a recent NYSUT Environmental Health and Safety Conference.
* CUNY is currently planning LEED certification for new buildings at:
BMCC; Baruch; Brooklyn Bronx CC; CCNY; Hunter; JJay; Leh; Medgar; NYCCT; Queens
Come join us, and circulate this announcement to lists of faculty and staff who may be interested.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
PLAN NYC EVALUATION EVENT apr 21
Please join us:
RSVP events@sustainabilitypractice.net or go to http://www.sustainabilitypractice.net/about.html and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
For more information, or to join SPN, visit our website: www.sustainabilitypractice.net
$10.00 donation payable at the door.
Date: April 21, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue: NYU Stern School of Business Henry Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street (at Greene Street) - Gardner Commons - 1st Floor
Moderator: Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association.
Panelists: Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning and Director, Center for Community Planning & Development, Hunter College/CUNY, Steven Morgan, President, Clean Energy Solutions; Susan Leeds, Center for Market Innovation National Resources Defense Council; Carter Strickland, Senior Policy Advisor for Air and Water, Mayor’s Office Long Term Planning and Sustainability
Panel Description:
Launched on Earth Day, 2007 Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 promised to address the major environmental sustainability issues facing the city, with 127 initiatives on housing, open space, water, air quality, transportation, brownfields, and the city’s impact on climate change. In its first year, PlaNYC launched 118 of these initiatives, and in 2008 issued a report on progress. Some programs (such as transitioning the city’s taxi fleet to hybrid vehicles) have had great success, and others (such as congestion pricing) have come up against challenges. Part of Mayor Bloomberg’s promise was to hold PlaNYC accountable for results. Two years into PlaNYC 2030, this panel will discuss the status of some of these initiatives, accomplishments, and lessons learned.
RSVP events@sustainabilitypractice.net or go to http://www.sustainabilitypractice.net/about.html and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
For more information, or to join SPN, visit our website: www.sustainabilitypractice.net
$10.00 donation payable at the door.
Date: April 21, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue: NYU Stern School of Business Henry Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street (at Greene Street) - Gardner Commons - 1st Floor
Moderator: Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association.
Panelists: Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning and Director, Center for Community Planning & Development, Hunter College/CUNY, Steven Morgan, President, Clean Energy Solutions; Susan Leeds, Center for Market Innovation National Resources Defense Council; Carter Strickland, Senior Policy Advisor for Air and Water, Mayor’s Office Long Term Planning and Sustainability
Panel Description:
Launched on Earth Day, 2007 Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 promised to address the major environmental sustainability issues facing the city, with 127 initiatives on housing, open space, water, air quality, transportation, brownfields, and the city’s impact on climate change. In its first year, PlaNYC launched 118 of these initiatives, and in 2008 issued a report on progress. Some programs (such as transitioning the city’s taxi fleet to hybrid vehicles) have had great success, and others (such as congestion pricing) have come up against challenges. Part of Mayor Bloomberg’s promise was to hold PlaNYC accountable for results. Two years into PlaNYC 2030, this panel will discuss the status of some of these initiatives, accomplishments, and lessons learned.
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