Achieving Sustainability and Environmental Resilience
When: Wednesday’s, January 17th- April 19th
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm ET
Where: West Village F, Room 020, Northeastern University | Livestream
Synopsis
Recent reports raise issues about slow progress in achieving sustainability, climate justice, and environmental resilience. This interdisciplinary lecture/workshop course includes case studies, quantitative and qualitative measurement tools, and research from scholars, practitioners, advocates, and data analysts to examine metrics for achieving progress in these areas, with a focus on water, heat, planning, policy, ethics, equity and climate racial justice. The course will focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of sustainability rating systems, and is offered in conjunction with partners including the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI). We will cover ISI sustainability rating system (ENVISION) credits, certification, and project audits requirements. The course is co-taught by public policy (Prof. Ted Landsmark) and engineering (Prof. Abdel Mustafa) faculty, and is intended to assist in addressing issues of environmental justice, social equity, and the impacts of environmental interventions that may generate measurable social consequences.
Matriculating students seeking academic credit must register for SPPUA 5225/5226, and participate in class discussions on Wednesdays from 4:35 pm to 5:50 pm. The class is also offered in conjunction with Honors section HONR3310, Racial Dialogue. Matriculating students will write short exploratory papers and a semester-long research paper. There is no final examination.
Weekly lectures and on-line presentations are open to the general public without registration.
Please reach out to neupolicyschool@gmail.com with any questions.
Upcoming Sessions
Boston’s Climate Progress Report: achieving net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and equity
This Wednesday’s open classroom speakers are Policy School Prof. Joan Fitzgerald (Ph.D.) and Michael Walsh, Ph.D, Founding Partner, Groundwork Data.
There will be no public portion for tonight’s open classroom.
Envision Rating System for Sustainable Infrastructure
This week’s guest speaker Anthony Kane is President & CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure in Washington, DC where he oversees the organization’s overall operations and leads the development of the Envision framework for sustainable infrastructure. Kane also sits as a commissioner on the Washington DC Commission on Climate Change and Resiliency. He will talk about ISI and particularly the Envision rating system, designed to help infrastructure stakeholders implement more sustainable, resilient, and equitable projects. Envision helps communities cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, create good-paying “green” jobs, address environmental justice, and meet climate-change targets. Infrastructure owners and design teams, community and environmental groups, constructors, regulators, and policymakers can all benefit from using Envision.
There will be no speaker for this week’s open classroom.
There will be no speaker for this week’s open classroom.
There will be no speaker for this week’s open classroom.
Spring Break! Class will resume next week.
There will be no speaker for this week’s open classroom.
Dr. Irmgard Buder has been a Professor of Renewable Energies since April 2012 and Head of the Environment and Energy B. Sc. program since April 2013. After completing her PhD on the application of cyclic electroanalytical measurement methods and their application to new substances, she first worked on the development of new nano-based materials, and later on the development of new membranes for fuel cells. She is also active in several projects on energy transition with a focus on energy storage in the form of hydrogen and on sustainable transport, e.g. in the field of multimodal mobility concepts (PROMUOVE) and on the sustainable development goal “affordable and clean energy” in the form of hydrogen in the project TransRegINT – Transformation of the Lower Rhine Region, Innovation, Sustainability, Participation.
Irmgard Buder will talk about “The European Green Deal – Towards the first climate-neutral continent”. How should the EU 27 become climate neutral by 2050 while ensuring a just and inclusive transition and a clean, affordable, and secure energy supply?
There will be no speaker for this week’s open classroom.
There will be no speaker for this week’s open classroom.
This weeks open classroom will be joined by Prof. Maria Ivanova, Director of the Policy School at 6:00 pm (West Village F 020). She will talk about Leadership in Global Environmental Governance: Individuals, Institutions, and Ideas.
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