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University of Southern California
Davidson Conference Center
Thursday, April 30, 2009
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
While cities have contributed their fair share to climate change - think belching factories and clogged freeways - they might also be more promising than problematic in the future. On April 30th, we will turn to urban solutions, like energy efficient office buildings, mass transportation, and cleaner industry, that might curb climate change.
We’ve asked policy makers, practitioners, justice advocates, and business leaders to join us in exploring these three questions in relation to Southern California: How do we build better cities? How will our health be affected? How will the green economy relieve the pressure, especially as felt by the chronically disadvantaged?
Keynote Address by Dr. Phillip Duffy, Scientific Director of Climate Central, Director of the University of California Institute for Research on Climate Change and its Societal Impacts, and Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced
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The Center for Sustainable Citiies and USC present:
"Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainabilty Designing Organizations for the Triple Bottom Line"
A Working Conference
October 2-3, 2008
Goal
Create a collaborative network to share knowledge and help define a research agenda on designing and changing organizations for economic, social, and environmental sustainability. We anticipate conference participants will form the nucleus of an ongoing community of interest and may participate in subsequent research collaborations.
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1st Annual Sustainability Champion Award Honoring Robert Kennedy Jr. for the Waterkeeper Alliance
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
University of Southern California
University Park Campus
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Free Event Featuring Mary Nichols
California Confronts Global Climate Change
A Report From the Front Line
Friday, January 18, 2008 : 1:00pm to 2:00pm
University Park Campus
Davidson Conference Center
Club Room
Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, explores the ways in which California will implement landmark climate change law AB32.
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Room to Move, Room to Improve
New USC study takes a close look at region’s parks, sees inequity in a land of plenty.
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Spring 2007 Newsletter Released
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In the USC Newsroom: Marshall Teams with Center for Sustainable Cities
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Mark Bernstein, USC
Friday, November 17, 2:00 - 3:30pm, KAP 444. Read more
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National Science Foundation Highlights Center Efforts on the Geographic Distribution of Working Poverty
Principal Investigators Jennifer Wolch, Juliet Musso and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli find surprising links about the rapidly growing and concentrated clusters of working poverty to the types of jobs available within these suburban bedroom communities.
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October 11, 2006
The Sustainable Organization I: Building a Sustainable Organization. 'Strategic sustainability' is the buzz-word of the 21st Century in corporate management. How can investments in understanding and improving the relationship between the firm and the community and natural systems pay off? This course can show you how, allow you access to fellow problem solvers, and best thinking and practices. Click here for more information.
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July 2006
Path to a Greener, More Just, L.A.
The Green Visions Plan (GVP), an ambitious project to create a “greener” Southern California led by USC researchers and state land conservancies, completed one of the largest and most comprehensive inventories of urban green space ever done.
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Center for Sustainable Cities Welcomes New Collaborators
Dr. Hilary Bradbury and Shannon Clements Parry have joined the Center to work on multidisciplinary research and educational programs that improve the natural and human environment of cities.
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Jennifer Wolch appointed Dean
Jennifer Wolch, professor of geography and director of the USC Center for Sustainable Cities, was appointed dean of graduate programs in July 2005...
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Press Release: Meeting the Sustainability Challenge, November 2005
Leaders from the municipal, business and non-profit sectors came together for an innovative and dynamic leadership training in urban sustainability offered by the University of Southern California’s Center For Sustainable Cities...(read more)
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Center Director Jennifer Wolch has received the Association of American Geographer’s 2005 Award for Distinguished Scholarship, for her intellectual leadership, use of transdisciplinary methods, and contributions to research and policy. This award is the most prestigious honor for scholarship awarded by the Association.
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October 29, 2005
Center Director Jennifer Wolch participates in the A Talk In The Park: A Public Forum About the Past, Present and the Future of MacArthur Park from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Click here for more information (PDF File)
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November 11-13, 2005
Center hosts Meeting the Sustainability Challenge: An Executive Education at USC Davidson Conference Center and the TreePeople Center for Community Forestry. Click here for more information.
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