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  • Events 

    Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Get Past the Past: Climate Change Adaptation In & Around NYC

    Speakers: Megan Linkin (Swiss Re), Gary Yohe (Wesleyan University), and Christopher Zeppie (The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

    How will cities manage the risks associated with climate change? Join us to learn how experts are developing risk management tools for identifying, assessing, and managing risks posed by climate change.

  • Past Events

    Thursday, May 6, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    The True Cost of Water

    Speakers: Gregory Characklis(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Michael Hanemann (University of California, Berkeley), and Upmanu Lall (Columbia Water Center)

    The focus of this panel discussion is the importance of economic optimization of water usage in the present and in the future to establish long-term sustainability of water resources.

    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

    Emerging Infectious Diseases in Response to Climate Change

    Organizers: Dickson Despommier (Columbia University), Stephen S. Morse (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health) and Gavin Schmidt (NASA)

    Climate change has led to higher rates of emerging infectious diseases worldwide, reemergence of diseases previously under control, and redistribution of diseases across the planet. This symposium examines these complex relationships.

    Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Achieving Energy Efficiency with Simple Technologies

    Speakers: Lorey Flick (ADS Engineers) and Strachen Forgan (Sasaki Associates)

    The second event in this year's green buildings series will highlight two examples of innovative designs resulting in cost-effective energy efficient solutions.

    Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Sustainable City Finance

    Organizer: Gordon Feller (Urban Age Institute)

    Thought leaders from around the world will gather at the Academy to explore how dual crises in the environment and the banking industry could converge to offer opportunities to transition to a cleaner, greener urban age.

  • Publications 

    eBriefing

    The True Cost of Water

    Speakers: Gregory Characklis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Michael Hanemann (University of California, Berkeley)
    Moderator: Upmanu Lall (Columbia Water Center)

    This meeting focused on the importance of economic optimization of water usage to establish long-term sustainability of water resources.

    eBriefing

    Green Building Solutions: What's Working?

    A four-part series looking at the state of the art in green building technology and design.

    Part 3 of the Green Building eBriefing series looks at post-occupancy evaluation of energy efficient buildings.

    Annals

    Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response

    New York City Panel on Climate Change
    2010 Report
    Free online access

    Prepared by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, the report in this Annals volume outlines the need for early and ongoing adaptation actions to climate change in New York City.

    Annals

    Ecological Complexity and Sustainability

    Edited by Bai-lian Li (Center for Ecology and Sustainability, University of California, Riverside, California)

    This Annals issue includes manuscripts stemming from the Eco Summit 2007 conference "Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century's Ecology" held May 22-27,2007 in Beijing Jiuhua Resort and Convention Center (JRCC), Beijing, PR China.

    Online only issue

    eBriefing

    Carbon Offset Credits : Making Them Credible in Climate-Change Policy

    Speakers: Sasha Lyutse (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Alexia Kelly (World Resources Institute)

    Theoretically, carbon offset projects can drive the costs of carbon cap and trade programs down and deliver environmental benefits. Do they? Should they? The jury is still out.

  • Webinar Archives

    Webinar Archive
    March 2, 2010

    Emerging Infectious Diseases in Response to Climate Change

    Climate and weather are important components of complex ecosystems, and with these changes, the dynamic balance between the living components of ecosystems is often disturbed. Experts in climate change, climate policy, emerging infectious diseases and public health discussed the relevant and pressing issues that we as a global community face as the planet's climate is altered.

    Webinar Archive
    January 5, 2010

    Envisioning a Low-Carbon Clean Energy Economy in New York

    New York Governor David Paterson has set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state by 80% by the year 2050. Stakeholders met at the Academy to discuss strategies for reaching this goal.

    Webinar Archive
    April 22, 2009

    Zero Net Energy Buildings: Reality or Fiction?: Recommendations from the WBCSD Report

    Green architects and engineers are working to balance energy consumption and generation at the level of individual buildings. But how do we define "zero" energy, and how can we reach this goal?