Thursday, April 17, 2008
Forum on Sustainable Transportation (along with a Transportation
Fair)
Featuring:
o Sam Schwartz – Transportation Consultant, former NYC Transportation Commissioner, media personality (“Gridlock Sam”)
o Steve Weber –Assistant Transportation Commissioner, NYC
o Walter Hook – Exec. Director, ITDP – global transportation expert
This months Urban Sustainability Forum will look at ways to make transportation greener and more sustainable.
Start with a visit to the Green Transportation Fair, open 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on April 17 at Amtrak’s 30th St Station – West End Canopy Area (just outside station on 30th Street). Then don’t miss the evening program at the Academy, as the panelists help us learn to “think green” about Philadelphia transportation.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Forum on Green Energy
The rapidly emerging green energy sector has tremendous potential to create jobs and economic growth in Greater Philadelphia.
This forum presents expert speakers focusing on the business of producing clean energy and on approaches to energy conservation and efficiency. Tom Tuffey, Director PennFuture's Center for Energy, Enterprise and the Environment will moderate presentations by Sarah Hetznecker, Northeast Regional Business Manager of SunTechnics Energy Systems, a leading supplier of solar energy systems; Brent Alderfer, Executive Vice President, Iberdrola Renewable Energies USA, a global leader in wind energy; and Audrey Zibelman, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of PJM Interconnection, which operates the world's largest competitive wholesale electricity market and ensures the reliability of the largest centrally dispatched grid in the world.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Building the Green Economy with Van Jones
Van Jones is an environmental leader, civil rights attorney and powerhouse public speaker. He is the founder and president of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, CA. The Center promotes integrated solutions to urban America's toughest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Working with the Apollo Alliance, Van is promoting a national "green-collar jobs" initiative. He hopes this approach will create "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. His most recent success is the passage of the Green Jobs Act of 2007, authorizing $125 million for green job training programs across the country. Van is a 1993 Yale Law graduate, husband and father.
LINK TO VIDEO OF VAN JONES AND MAYOR NUTTER AT FEBRUARY 21 FORUM
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Bike Sharing
Reduce Automobile Traffic, Promote Healthier Living and Make A More Sustainable City
Public Use Bicycle Programs (bike sharing) are changing urban transportation in cities all over the world. Join us at this Forum to learn more about the benefits of successful bike sharing systems in Europe and the United States!
External Links:
PennFuture
podcast
Interview with speakers
on WHYY
Speakers
Gilles Vesco is the Vice-President of Grand Lyons, the regional
government around the city of Lyons, France; a Municipal Councillor for
the city of Cailure; –and is one of the people responsible for creating
the first–and surprisingly successful–bike-sharing program in
Lyon. This past Summer the program expanded to Paris, where it exploded
into the scene (with over 1,000,000 bike rentals) and became a media sensation.
He oversees for the municipal government the highly successful Vélo’V
system implemented in Lyon and duplicated in Paris
Mitch Franzos works with the Dasani Blue Bike program in Pittsburgh, a recreational community bike sharing program for the river front trails.
Nate Kvamme is the Director of Humana’s Innovation Center. He helped to develop bike sharing program Freewheelin for Humana Hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky.
Tuesday,
December 11th, 2007
Multi-family Innovations
This special presentation featured British team Simon Allford and
Paul Monaghan (who are working on the master plan for London's
2012 Olympic Village) and local trendsetter Patrick McDonald (one
of the McDonald brothers, who blazed the way for sustainable construction
in Philadelphia with projects such as the Rag Flats and the upcoming Stable
Flats).
November
15th, 2007
Sustainable Visions: Strategies for
Philadelphia
October 15th, 2007
Mayoral Forum – The Next Mayor’s Vision of a Sustainable
Philadelphia
September Forum – Thursday, Sept. 27
Climate Change and its Impact in the Philadelphia Region
Reception at 6:00 p.m, program at 6:30
- Erika Spanger-Siegfried – Northeast Climate Project Manager, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Brian Hill – President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council
July 19th, 2007 6:00-8:00 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA'S
EMERGING LEADERS: How Young Professionals are Making an Impact and
Showing Philly How to Live Sustainably!
June 20, 2007
Philadelphia: The State of the City, 18 months after the first Forum event, leaders of the Sustainability Forum will review the state of the City and region against sustainability criteria.
May 17, 2007
New Urbanism: How Everything Old is New (and Better) Again
April 19, 2007
Human Ecology and the Urban Environment
March 15, 2007
Philadelphia Revised: finally, a River City
Februrary 15, 2007
Philadelphia Mayoral Candidates' forum on Sustainability
January 18, 2007
Sustainable Food Access and Accountability - How to get our hands on Healthy Food and help develop a Sustainable Food Industry!
November 16, 2006
Sustainable Transportation
October 19, 2006
Energy
September 21, 2006
Sustainable Architecture
June 15, 2006
Goals
& Actions for a Sustainable Philadelphia
May 18, 2006
Redeveloping
Healthy Neighborhoods
Apr. 20, 2006
Greene
Country Towne: The Future of Philadelphia Land Use Planning
Mar. 16, 2006
Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle: Revisioning Waste Management in Philadelphia.
Feb. 16, 2006
Directing
the Flow: Managing the City's Water
Feb. 6, 2006
SPECIAL
GUEST: Mr. Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil and former President
of the
International Union of Architects
Jan. 19, 2006
Life
and Breath in the Big City: Philadelphia's Air in the 21st Century
All Forums take place at the Academy of Natural Sciences, right at Logan Circle in Center City Philadelphia