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On April 9, 2022, the Landscape Architecture Foundation and partners held a Grounding the Green New Deal Summit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Through 2 keynote presentations and 3 panel discussions, the presenters and panelists explored the intersection of design policy, and advocacy.
This video is from the second part of the summit and includes:
- Grounding the Green New Deal: From Iteration to Implementation – keynote presentation by Kate Orff
- Implementation panel discussion with Alexa Bush, Kevin Bush, Mia Lehrer, Mitchell Silver, and Jess Zimbabwe
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On March 25 Richard Spinrad, the U.S. undersecretary for oceans and atmosphere and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) visited Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory to participate in a town hall and met numerous Columbia Climate School researchers to discuss projects that NOAA could potentially fund.
Learn more about Dr. Spinrad's visit and the researchers he met here:
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/03/29/a-key-u-s-earth-sciences-official-visits-columbia-to-explore-research-ideas/
Moderator
Alex Halliday, Founding Dean, Columbia Climate School
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Kate Orff, Professor, Columbia GSAPP, Director, Urban Design Program
Marco Tedesco, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Adjunct Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT | REGISTER HERE
The research is clear and incontrovertible: the climate emergency is causing sea level to rise, threatening millions of people around the world. These impacts will fall hardest on those with the least capacity to adapt…
Rapid development along Belize's coast and climate change is reshaping the coastline, land- and sea-scapes, and communities. It presents both challenge and opportunity for local communities and livelihoods, the region, and for the Belize Barrier Reef System. To clarify these challenges with stakeholders, align on possible strategies for improving outcomes at multiple scales, and visualize possible future scenarios the Resilient Reefs Initiative, the Coastal Zone Management Authority & Institute, Belize Fisheries Department, and Ministry for Blue Economy & Civil Aviation are partnering with…
CRCL Faculty Director Kate Orff discusses rewilding as one tool among many for restoring ecological infrastructure, oysters as engineering assistants in preventing coastal flooding, and other out-of-the-box solutions local and federal authorities should be considering before the next hurricane hits.
The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation, and Attractions at Ningaloo and the CRCL designed and implemented a workshop with Ningaloo Traditional Owners and Joint Management Board to uncover aspirations for healing sea country and discuss how TO’s want to be involved in future potential coral reef restoration piloting projects. This workshop was an important starting point for a longer discussion around how restoration activities fit within a broader framework of Joint Management between the DBCA and Traditional Owners. The workshop began a process of defining aspirations for healing of Sea…
Kate Orff speaks on CNN to Christiane Amanpour on the need to decarbonize, invest in nature based solutions, and to imagine expansive and inclusive climate adaptation projects in the built environment.
“It’s time for a broad investment in the natural systems and landscapes that can sustain us and anticipate these climate risks of the future.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/08/09/amanpour-climate-change-landscape-architect-kate-orff.cnn
In the August 9 print issue of The New Yorker, sociologist Eric Klinenberg profiled Kate Orff, faculty director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes. Kate talks about designing nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.
“Climate compassion must be globalized now.”
The Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes partnered with the National Wildlife Foundation to host the “Mississippi as Living River” workshop which brought together scientists, policymakers and NGOs across the Mississippi River Basin.
Environmental injustices leading to poor health and quality of life for people of color and low income communities are rife everywhere, with long legacies. Environmental injustices are well documented within our cities and metropolitan regions, provoking community-based activism and creativity around alternative, more just futures. CRCL is proud to partner with the Goddard Space Flight Center Environmental Health Group, Barnard College, Riverkeeper, Mailman School of Public Health, Lamont Doherty, the Center for Sustainable and Urban Development at the Earth Institute, and the Sabin…
CRCL teams up with McHarg Center at Penn Design, Landscape Architecture Foundation, American Society of Landscape Architects and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
Students from the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) have conceived a plan to turn the street in front of their school, 182nd Street, into a “Clean Air Green Corridor.” This project would create a new park and public space that would connect the many schools in the community and Highbridge Park. Under the guidance of their teachers and partners at WeACT for Environmental Justice, students have already taken their plan to the Community Board, Councilmember, and began further public engagement and pilot greening projects on their block.
To support their…
Tel Aviv, Addis Ababa and Beira face challenges caused by climate change, rapid expansion and economic disparity.
Following a workshop with the Southern California Resilience Initiative (SCRI), funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, CRCL partnered with LA County to prepare “Heat Vulnerability in Los Angeles County Resource and Methodology Assessment.” In support research and planning that advances resilience and climate adaptation planning around extreme heat. In the development of the County’s OurCounty Sustainability Plan, the County established ambitious targets around converting heat trapping surfaces to cool or green surface, reducing the number of heat stress emergency department visits,…