CISC Director Dr. Bill Solecki and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Senior Research Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig co-authored a response to today’s New York Times “Room for Debate” section on sea gates, sea walls and other proposed solutions to sea level rise in the aftermath of “Super Storm”...
A discussion of Eric Sanderson’s Terra Nova: The New World after Oil, Cars and Suburbs co-sponsored with The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Reception 5:30 PM Program 6:00 PM The next administration will face great challenges in addressing continued global...
CISC Fellow John Waldman writes about a recent research trip to the Bronx River on the Fordham University Press Blog this week. The text of Dr. Waldman’s post is reproduced below. The full article, with additional photographs, can be read here. “French filmmaker Mathias Frantz and his crew had spent weeks...
Please join us on: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:30-8pm Sponsored by GreenHomeNYC & the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, Room 714W LEAVING #6 OIL BEHIND: POLICIES, COSTS, AND SAVINGS NYC is one of the last bastions of #6 residual oil use in the country, and the environmental...
Professor Laxmi Ramasubramanian of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning will be running an Urban Design Workshop this semester looking at the revitalization plans and potential of La Marqueta, a marketplace under the elevated Metro North railway tracks between 111th Street and 116th Street on Park Avenue in East...
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is coming to New York City from February 24-28. CISC faculty and staff have organized or are involved with a number of sessions and related events. For the full schedule, visit the AAG homepage. The list below outlines CISC participation and links to the relevant information. CISC...
Monday, December 5th 3:30PM CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Hunter College | East 1216 Please RSVP using the form below. A discussion with Professor Carlos Leite on his research, “Indicators of Sustainability on Urban Development,” which looks at the challenge of the Sustainable Megacity through Sao Paulo’s...
CISC Director Dr. William Solecki is one of the featured speakers on The Climate Reality Project’s 24 Hours of Reality, produced by Al Gore. More information, from the Climate Reality Project website: “WHAT IS 24 HOURS OF REALITY? 24 Presenters. 24 Time Zones. 13 Languages. 1 Message. 24 Hours of Reality...
City Atlas is a New Yorker’s comprehensive guide to events, ideas and actions that are positively impacting and forming our city’s future. We like to think of ourselves as a bottom-up sustainability plan for New York City that works best with your participation. The Atlas reflects the good work that individuals, organizations,...
Bountiful Yards: Innovation for Small-Plot Food Production was held on May 17, 2011 at Hunter College. A bright, thoughtful and engaged audience of about 100 people packed Hunter’s West Building lobby. Thanks to all who came, and to the presenters who gave us plenty of food for thought. Thanks also...
The backstory of the October 4, 2010 edition of Newsweek highlights findings from original research co-written by CISC and Evan Mason (the founder of Sustainable Yards, a project of Landmark West). Lesley Patrick, Program Manger at the Institute, and researchers Jennifer Cox, Kristen Grady, and Kate Ervin, worked with...
The Backstory of the latest edition of Newsweek highlights findings from original research of the Institute for Sustainable Cities and Evan Mason of Sustainable Yards. Lesley Patrick, Program Manger at the Institute and researchers–Jennifer Cox, Kristen Grady, and Kate Ervin, worked with Evan and CISC interns on this...
CISC is grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation for its New York City Cultural Innovation Fund Award. We have been actively working to amass our team of individuals to help us develop the Digital Environmental Atlas of New York City, for which we received this grant. Working with partner, Artist As Citizen, our...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: July 7, 2010 NEW YORK (AP) — The high temperatures blanketing the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the country are making many people miserable. But those in New York City, Philadelphia and other dense, built-up areas are getting hit with the heat in a way their counterparts...
The Green Initiative Fund, based on University of California’s successful model, is a fund that will support innovative environmental projects proposed by members of the Hunter community. TGIF at Hunter will not raise the Student Activity Fee, but reallocate unused funds – approximately $43,000 annually – to advance...
CISC Fellow Prof. John Waldman just published The Natural World Vanishes: How Species Cease To Matter for the Yale Environment360 zine. Once, on both sides of the Atlantic, fish such as salmon, eels, and, shad were abundant and played an important role in society, feeding millions and providing a livelihood for tens of...
Queens College biologist John Waldman says the once-polluted Hudson is a Shangri-La for sturgeon, source of the finest caviar. CUNY TV
Dr. Bill Solecki of CISC talks about climate change and rising sea levels with CUNY TV
Rutherford H. Platt’s newest article on the greening of New York’s waterfront from the July/August, 2009 issue of Environment (Heldref Publications, Inc.) looks at how New York City’s waterfront, once the industrial center of the city, has evolved over the last 100 years. The building of elevated highways...
