Pace University Event Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: What Can We Expect?

 

Conservation Cafe´presents  the next Conversations on Conservation   "Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: What Can We Expect?"         June 7, 2013 8:30am- 11am at Pace University Pleasantville Campus Gottesman Room, Kessel Student Center, Entrance 3           In recent years the frequency and intensity of storms in our area has been on the rise, and as we are still in the midst of clean-up from Hurricane Sandy, climate change and its effect on sea level rise is top of mind. Find out what climate change is, what its effects are on our oceans and rivers, and the impacts of extreme weather in our local communities. Speakers * Andy Revkin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, who will give a broad overview of climate change, rising oceans, and their possible impact on New York State.     * Adam Whelchel, Ph.D. Director of Science at The Nature Conservancy/Connecticut Chapter, who will speak about how sea level rise may impact Long Island Sound.    * Mark Lowery, Climate Policy Analyst in the office of Climate Change at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who will talk about the sea level rise along the Hudson River and how New York State can respond to it.     A panel discussion with a question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentations.   Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the program begins at 8:45 a.m.      This is a FREE program, and all are welcome to join.     To RSVP:                      Online: www.fcwc.org/events                           By Phone: 914-422-4053                      By Email: fcwc@fcwc.org                         Conservation Café programs provide a forum for dialogue about current environmental issues. Co-Sponsored by:  Grassroots Environmental Education,Greenburgh Nature Center,  FCWC, Friends of Westchester County Parks, Mianus River Gorge, Pace University, Teatown Lake Reservation, Westchester County Parks and Planning Departments and Westchester Land Trust.   Please spread news about this program widely.

Rediscovering Higher Education's Role in the Earth Community -- ECCU

Please mark your calendar to attend the Environmental Consortium of Colleges and Universities’ 9th Annual Conference on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.


“Rediscovering Higher Education’s Role in the Earth Community” will honor Father Thomas Berry whose teachings inspired the formation of the Environmental Consortium in 2004.

• Presentation of the Inaugural Thomas Berry Great Work Award (Nominations due May 30th)

• Plenaries and Breakouts (details to follow)

• Student and Faculty Inter and Multi-Disciplinary Poster Session

Sponsored by Marist College and Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies

HUDSON RIVER ADVOCATE JOHN CRONIN AWARDED JEFFERSON GOLD MEDAL

"Renowned environmentalist and Pace University senior fellow John Cronin was presented with the prestigious Jefferson Award in a ceremony in Washington, DC, Tuesday night. Cronin was honored for a career spanning four decades "on the front line of water quality issues." The Jefferson Award, now in its 39th year, is named for Thomas Jefferson and was founded by former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as a "Nobel Prize for public service." Two other recipients of the Jefferson Award this year were Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and actress Marlo Thomas.

In its presentation, the Jefferson Awards Board of Selectors said Cronin "has dedicated his career to water and environmental affairs. Described as 'Hero for the Planet' and 'equal parts detective, scientist and public advocate', his efforts have inspired a legacy of programs across the globe, fighting pollution on six continents."

Environmental History of New York City and the Hudson River -- Pace Symposium

A symposium examining the past 400 years of how natural attributes of the Hudson River and its great all-season harbor permitted the emerging metropolis at its mouth to grow and prosper; how those human uses in turn influenced the ecological health of the Hudson River and the harbor; and how, once they were changed, the consequences for subsequent human activities. This city, like no other in the world, was founded on, and grew as a result of, commercial activity. Those enterprises have greatly affected the river, the harbor, and the city itself. Invited experts will describe ecosystems during the period of human occupation and use. Others will describe the principal functions of early New Amsterdam, and the emerging metropolis. The modern harbor will be analyzed. All authors will examine both causes and effects.

Wed, February 9, 2011, 9am-4:30pm
Pace University, Manhattan Campus, Pace Plaza

Environmental History of New York City and the Hudson River -- Pace Univ

A symposium examining the past 400 years of how natural attributes of the Hudson River and its great all-season harbor permitted the emerging metropolis at its mouth to grow and prosper; how those human uses in turn influenced the ecological health of the Hudson River and the harbor; and how, once they were changed, the consequences for subsequent human activities. New York, like no other in the world, was founded on, and grew as a result of, commercial activity. Those enterprises have greatly affected the river, the harbor, and the city itself. Invited experts will describe ecosystems during the period of human occupation and use. Others will describe the principal functions of early New Amsterdam, and the emerging metropolis. The modern harbor will be analyzed. All authors will examine both causes and effects.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 9am-4:30pm
Pace University, New York City Campus

Travel Course to Belize

March 12 – March 19

2011The focus of the 2011 documentary course will be the pioneering efforts of Linda Thornton, an American woman living in Belize, to develop ways to farm shrimp that don’t harm the environment.

In many parts of the world the farms that produce the frozen shrimp Americans buy result in the destruction of mangrove forests and other costal ecosystems, use large amounts of water and generate choking flows of pollution. Thornton and partners in Belize, a tiny country of rainforests and coral reefs along the Yucatan peninsula, have tried a different approach, gaining the support of the World Wildlife Fund.

Andy Revkin, the veteran New York Times environmental correspondent and senior fellow for environmental understanding at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, will help plan and execute the film with Dr. Maria Luskay.

Contact: Professor: Dr. Maria Luskay, mluskay@pace.edu, 914- 773-3353, Media & Communication Arts

Cost: $2,800 includes r/t airfare, 4 nights in Independence with daily breakfast and 2 dinners, excursion to Jaguar Preserve, 3 nights at Pelican Resort in Palencia with all meals/drinks included.

Payment Dates: Your confirmation deposit of $1,000 is due December 1, 2010. Final payment is due by February 1, 2011. Payments can be made at the Study Abroad Office.

The ‘Good Life’: Imagining Alternative Futures -- Conference Call for Papers

The ‘Good Life’: Imagining Alternative Futures is a Conference on the Environment being held on Friday, November 5, 2010 at the Pace University New York City Campus.

The conference is hosted by the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies (PIERS) and the Pace Environmental Studies Program (ENV)

Discussion topics:
Historians and others have depicted the twentieth century in a variety of terms. Some refer to it as the ‘age of extremes’, others as the ‘age of anxiety’, and still others as the ‘age of science” or the ‘age of analysis’; but none have been foolish enough to call it the ‘age of the good life’ and compose eclogues in praise of it, and for very good reasons. There is growing public awareness, though far from reaching any consensus on solutions, that the institutional structures of the present are not providing the ‘good life’ for too many people. And the global environmental crisis is compelling evidence that the Enlightenment project of the ‘perfection of humanity’ has utterly failed to produce even a shadow image of the ‘good life’.

This conference is a forum to discuss competing but environmentally grounded conceptions of the ‘good life’. We invite panels, papers, and posters from all who find value in collaboration and view the environment as a unifying element in that collaboration. Preference will be given to contributions that represent interdisciplinary approaches to defining the ‘good life’ in environmental terms from the widest range of disciplines, including environmental studies, philosophy, theology, history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, psychology, cultural studies, urban studies, women’s studies, and more.

The deadline for abstracts is October 1, 2010. Notifications will be sent 10 days later. To register for the conference and submit your abstract, please go to the conference website. For further information, contact Dr. Robert Chapman or Dr. Judith Pajo .