Sentences with phrase «urban environmental center»

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Learn more about Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center and its urban environmental education programs

Key partners include: Greater Buffalo - Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); Erie County, Niagara County, City of Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls, Association of Erie County Governments, Niagara County Supervisors Association, University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban Design Project (UBRI / UDP), Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement (CSCCE), VOICE Buffalo, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Buffalo (LISC), Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, The John R. Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Belmont Housing Resources for WNY, Inc. (Belmont), Buffalo Niagara Partnership (BNP), Empire State Development, New York State Department of State, Division of Smart Growth, Niagara County Department of Social Services, and Niagara Falls Housing Authority.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

A separate lawsuit — brought by groups including the Urban Justice Center and the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project — is still pending, according to Capital New York.

Also at 10 a.m., state Sen. Tony Avella co-sponsors a forum with the CUNY School of Law and the Center for Urban Environmental Reform on the Climate and Community Protection Act, 2 Court Square W., Queens.

Melissa Checker is associate professor of urban studies at Queens College, CUNY and of anthropology and environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

It's a tale in which herders and nomads are streaming to urban centers while resources are being exploited without long - term environmental planning, and people, individually and as a society, have no choice but to adapt.

As the DEP's first Environmental Justice Administrator, she discovered that Newark's poor African - American and Hispanic preschool children experienced higher incidents of asthma than those in most other New Jersey urban centers.

This evidence suggests that local Indus populations were already well adapted to living in varied and variable environmental conditions before the development of urban centers.

The research was supported by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the Johns Hopkins NIEHS Center for Urban Environmental Health.

The Center for Urban Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual leadership through research, teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban settUrban Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual leadership through research, teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban setturban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban setturban settings.

Co-sponsored with The Critical Social and Environmental Psychology and The Urban Education Programs, NYCORE, (In) equality Matters Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and The Urban Research - Based Action Network (URUrban Education Programs, NYCORE, (In) equality Matters Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and The Urban Research - Based Action Network (URUrban Research - Based Action Network (URBANURBAN).

They are also involved with the Alley Pond Environmental Center, with some of the veterinarians acting as judges at APEC's «A Salute to NYC Biodiversity» Photo Contest, which is held during the Saving Urban Biodiversity Conference.

They came on field trips to Crissy Field Center — the Parks Conservancy's urban environmental education center in partnership with the National Park Service and Presidio Center — the Parks Conservancy's urban environmental education center in partnership with the National Park Service and Presidio center in partnership with the National Park Service and Presidio Trust.

With its mission to serve diverse audiences, the Crissy Field Center — an urban environmental education center — also provides programs for homeless children and families, through partnerships with organizations such as Hamilton Family Center, an organization that works to break the cycle of homelesCenter — an urban environmental education center — also provides programs for homeless children and families, through partnerships with organizations such as Hamilton Family Center, an organization that works to break the cycle of homelescenter — also provides programs for homeless children and families, through partnerships with organizations such as Hamilton Family Center, an organization that works to break the cycle of homelesCenter, an organization that works to break the cycle of homelessness.

By providing innovative ecological education programs to young people from our urban neighborhoods, the Center hopes to spark positive environmental change for today and tomorrow.

His AP Environmental Studies class — and his involvement with invertebrate research in Lobos Creek through Project WISE (a Crissy Field Center program in partnership with Urban Watershed Project and Galileo)-- opened his eyes to the challenges facing natural ecosystems.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 12, 2011: Celebrating ten years as an innovative environmental education leader working with urban youth and families, Crissy Field Center is proud to release a comprehensive report summarizing its most significant impacts and outcomes from the past decade.

Designed for middle school students, Urban Trailblazers is a Parks Conservancy / Crissy Field Center program that introduces diverse youth to the outdoors through hands - on restoration projects, environmental lessons, and excursions across our national parks.

The Parks Conservancy's award - winning urban environmental education center — in partnership with the NPS and Presidio Trust — serves students (K — 12) through a suite of innovative and experiential programs, including summer camps, school field trips, community outreach initiatives, and more.

The Conservancy and National Park Service created an urban environmental education center that has served, since 2001, nearly 700,000 youth and family members.

Urban Trailblazers (UTB) is an environmental youth leadership program offered by the Crissy Field Center.

Urban Trailblazers >> Crissy Field Center Students spend their paid internship learning about environmental issues through workshops, field trips, and service projects while gaining valuable skills in their «first job.»

The Center for Urban Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual leadership through research, teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban settUrban Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual leadership through research, teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban setturban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban setturban settings.

Pratt Institute Trustees have named Adam Friedman as director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, New York City's preeminent provider of architectural, urban planning, and environmental sustainability services to community - based organizations.

Urban development, population explosion, environmental changes, socio - economic gaps, and the rising middle class in metropolitan centers in Africa redefine the structure of the city as it continuously evolves.

Whether these be the idyllic landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.

Discussions follow with professors from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the school's Hixon Center for Urban Ecology and Urban Resources Initiative, experts such as Dr. Prabhakar Singh, Director of the Connecticut Fuel Cell Center, and William Langewiesche, international correspondent for Vanity Fair.

The event brought together an impressive array of groups, including indigenous peoples, fishermen, traditional riverbank communities, popular movements from the periphery of urban centers, union workers opposed to the privatization of water and sanitation systems, and environmental and human rights NGOs and students, among others.

Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer

There is also ample scope for reforming tax systems to deal much more effectively with broader environmental and related problems that can be a significant drag on economic growth, such as the health and productivity impacts of poor air quality, and severe congestion of major urban centers.

Major Environmental Issues: Natural fresh water resources scarce and polluted in north, inaccessible and poor quality in center and extreme southeast; raw sewage and industrial effluents polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; serious air pollution in the national capital and urban centers along US - Mexico border.

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Carl Anthony, founder of Urban Habitat, one of the nation's oldest environmental justice organizations, spoke to an energetic crowd packed into Civic Center Plaza.

It looks to nature to unveil solutions, not yet discovered, for the environmental issues impacting our urban centers.

The Center for Urban Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual leadership through research, teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban settUrban Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will provide intellectual leadership through research, teaching and extension to sustain urban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban setturban ecosystems, enhance economic development, and improve the quality of life in urban setturban settings.