[ESSP] Fwd: Ecological Cities update

[Vanessa Paulman]

Hello Sustainability Folks,
Some of you have expressed interest in urban sustainability - here is 
a program at UMass that is working on city planning and policy for 
sustainability. There is a talk entitled "Regreening the Metropolis: 
Pathways to more ecological cities" on Wednesday, October 22 at 7:00 
in Gamble Auditrium at Mt Holyoke College (see pdf)

You can also check out their website at:

http://www.umass.edu/ecologicalcities/

Below you will find an email I received recently, announcing recent 
Ecological Cities successes and upcoming talks.

Vanessa


>Delivered-To: paulman.com-vanessa at paulman.com
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>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:19:57 -0400
>To: Local Contacts:;
>From: Rutherford Platt <platt at geo.umass.edu>
>Subject: Ecological Cities update
>Cc: flad at vassar.edu, wendy.bigler at asu.edu, desousa at uwm.edu,
>    bsolecki at geo.hunter.cuny.edu, andrew.light at nyu.edu
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>Status:  
>
>EC Folks --
>
>The attached is FYI in case you will be near South Hadley this coming
>Wednesday evening. The same talk will be given in New York on Oct. 29 at
>the Urban Biosphere & Society: Partnership of Cities conference being
>organized by UNESCO and Columbia University.
>
>Recent happenings:
>
>Hartford -- Mary Pelletier held a very successful meeting on Oct. 19 to
>initiate a community alliance to promote measures to upgrade the North
>Branch of the Park River. About 25 people attended representing various
>public and private stakeholders and interests that border that stream. The
>Park River is surprisingly lacking in organized advocacy and Mary with our
>support is working to fill that gap. She recently had a superb letter on
>the topic published in the Hartford Courant.
>
>Pittsburgh -- Joy Abbott, our EC alum, has persuaded her employer, the
>Allegheny Conference of Community Development, to let her begin organizing
>an EC public symposium there. We met with Court Gould of Sustainable
>Pittsburgh  and  Marijke Hecht of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association,
>both of whom supported the idea and may serve as co-oganizers. We also hope
>that Joy can find time to prepare a case study of the Nine Mile Run, a
>unique case of industrial brownfield remediation and stream restoration in
>progress.
>
>Milwaukee -- Chris DeSousa has lined up a prominent civic organization to
>host an EC public event some time next spring. Laurin Sievert is hard at
>work on her case study of the Milwaukee River, as well as helping to keep
>track of our various subcontracts and other activities.
>
>With the help of Juan Osorio, a grad student from Bogota with an
>architectural background, we are starting to develop contacts with various
>EC related programs and organizations in Latin America. Carlo Ruiz, another
>project assistant from Quito is conducting an urban watershed study in his
>home region in Ecuador. A visiting scholar from Istanbul, Azime Tezer, is
>helping to acquaint us with urban development issues in her home city.
>
>We look forward to visits with my EC class here at UMass by Mary Pelletier
>on Oct. 27, Mike Houck (currently at Harvard GSD as a Loeb Fellow) on Nov.
>3, and Colleen Dunning-Murphy of the Yale/New Haven Urban Resources
>Institute on Nov. 17. She may be joined by our old friend, Charlie Lord
>from the Boston College Urban Resources Institute. These classes meet on
>Monday afternoons in Morrill 126 from 2:30 - 5 in case anyone would like to
>sit in.
>
>Best to all
>
>Rud
>
>
>Dr. Rutherford H. Platt
>Ecological Cities Project
>Department of Geosciences
>University of Massachusetts
>Amherst, MA 01003
>tel. (413) 545-2499
>fax  (413) 545-1200
>web: http://www.ecologicalcities.org


-- 
Vanessa Paulman       
Science Outreach Coordinator
Center for Science Exploration
Hampshire College

phone: (413) 559-5792
fax: (413) 559-5438
Adele Simmons Hall #132

http://ScienceExploration.hampshire.edu


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