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‘Rhythms of the Land,’ a multimedia documentary film, was screened during the 2023 Earth Month events at The New School. Present at the event was the director, Dr. Gail Myers, filmmaker and cultural anthropologist. The event was curated and moderated by Mike Harrington, Director of Sustainability Engagement, and Dr. Kristin Retnolds, Chair of Food Studies in the Schools for Public Engagement.
Read MoreOn October 26th, 2020, Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Associate Professor and Program Director of Food Studies at Syracuse University, spoke about her recent book “The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability'' (MIT Press, 2019) in on an online talk hosted by the Food Studies Program at The New School. The event was organized in connection with faculty member Kristin Reynolds’ Food and the Environment course, and there were more than 120 participants from across the United States in attendance. In this short piece, we include a brief summary of the book’s key arguments and reflect on its relevance for the study of food and sustainability.
Read MoreIt is true, the last four years have seen substantial environmental policy protections rolled back, there are reasons for hope. Businesses, as well as local and state governments, are seeing the bottom line benefits of data-driven ESG policies and are implementing new frameworks for comparable and transparent reporting. Though, implementing a sustainable framework into your business or organization can seem like a monumental task, know you are not alone, and there are systems to help you sift through the noise. We’ll get to that in a minute.
Read MoreOn March 2nd 2020, the Milano Whole Earth Taskforce, made up of students, faculty, and staff, brought together The New School community for a Climate Emergency Teach-In. Leonardo Figueroa Helland and Mindy Fullilove, the faculty members behind the event, are recipients of a 2019-2020 Tishman Center Faculty Grant and the teach-in was created as part of their “Whole Earth” Curriculum project. Génesis Abreu, a current Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management student, was invited to join the Whole Earth Taskforce as a research assistant and has been key in bringing the project to life.
Read MoreWhile we live in an era that will most likely be shaped by the climate crisis, right now the focus is on coronavirus, which has turned the world into a very different place in a very short time. However, climate change is not sitting down and waiting patiently until we’re done dealing with the coronavirus. It continues to be an existential threat to humanity, even if short-term decrease in activity may slow it down. In a way, it is accompanying the coronavirus like a shadow, challenging us to consider it in every step of the way. The challenge, as we will see, is not only to remind ourselves that the climate crisis is here, even if we deal with another emergency, but also to learn the lessons from the coronavirus and figure out how to apply them to the fight against climate change.
Read MoreIs green infrastructure fair? How can it be developed in a way that ensures equity rather than perpetuates the profound injustices that are in the foundation of most urban areas? Those were some of the questions discussed at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies event on the fairness of green infrastructure, where three panelists, including Tishman Center’s Affiliated Faculty and Director of Urban Systems Lab, Timon McPhearson, provided their takes on the biggest challenges and promises of equitable green infrastructure.
Read MoreKevin McQueen has been a part-time lecturer for the Community Development Finance Lab at the Milano school since 2011. Kevin has an extensive background in corporate and community development finance and is a partner at a national consulting firm (BWB Solutions) that specializes in impact investing strategies and nonprofit planning and governance.
The Community Develop Finance Lab course engages students in a project-based curriculum with the following components: classroom instruction, student teams, interdisciplinary engagement across the university, guest lectures, networking.
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