Sentences with phrase «city environmental affairs»

I served as a Commissioner of the Los Angeles City Environmental Affairs Commission from 1996 to 2005.

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HED partnered with Mass Audubon, the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the 495 / MetroWest Partnership, the MetroWest Regional Collaborative, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Massachusetts Department of Transportation to advance the regional planning effort in the 37 cities and towns within the 495 / MetroWest Development Compact Plan area.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

They also highlight the need for more studies of this nature to give us a better idea of the cities and landscapes that are most affected now and also under additional greenhouse warming,» said co-lead author Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Insaffairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental InsAffairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Authors are Cheol Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong, and John Mikesell, Chancellor's Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington.

A civic leader and staunch supporter of education, women's issues and environmental concerns, among other causes, Ms. Gund is the former chair of the Mayor's Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission of New York City and has served on the boards of such wide - ranging organizations as the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, the Frick, the Fund for Public Schools, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Clare has over 20 years» experience in international affairs, working in city governments, and on environmental and educational projects.

There are some bright spots of the findings from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, including which cities have the most receptive car buyers when it comes to plug - in cars.

For more info, please contact: Environmental Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles, 200 N. Spring Street., Suite 2005, Los Angeles, CA 90012, or visit the website: http://www.lacity.org/EAD or E-mail: [email protected].