<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Panel Discussion Invitation</font></b></span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class="">..........................................................................................</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class=""><font color="#993300" class="">'Permaculture and Urban Eco-System Design'</font></b></i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><font color="#993300" class=""> </font>……………………………………………………………………………</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Calibri" class=""><b class="">Host<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></b></font></div><div class="" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><b class="">City College of New York</b></font></div><div class="" style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><b class="">Sustainability in the Urban Environment Program</b></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b class=""><font color="#993300" class="" size="4">Save-the-Date</font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><b class=""><span class=""><span class=""><font class="">RSVP</font></span></span><font class="">:<font color="#000080" class=""> </font></font></b></font></span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-permaculture-and-urban-eco-system-design-tickets-32579238379" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-permaculture-and-urban-eco-system-design-tickets-32579238379</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><p class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Date: </b>April 3,</span></span> 2017</span></font></p><p class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class=""><span class="">Time</span>: </b>6:00 – 8:00pm <font color="navy" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></font></p><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class=""><b class="">Venue:</b></span> </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Grove School of Engineering at City College</span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> l </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steinman Lecture Hall - 160 Convent Avenue NY NY (between 140 & 141 Sts)</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Moderator:</b></span></span></font></span></font> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hillary Brown, FAIA, </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, Program Director, City College's Sustainability in the Urban Environment </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Panelists:</b></span></span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></font><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew Faust, Permaculture and Bioregional Educator, Designer at Center for Bioregional Living; Ashley Muse, Senior Sustainability Manager, YR&G</span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">; </span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Philip Silva, Co-founder and Co-director, TreeKIT; Associate Editor, The Nature of Cities; </span><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ben Flanner, F</span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ounder, </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brooklyn Grange; Monica Ibacache, Founder and Executive Director, Beyond Organic Design</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><em class=""><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"> </font></em></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class=""><b class="">Topic:</b></span> </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">'<span class="" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Permaculture and Urban Eco-System Design'</span></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">Permaculture, a portmanteau of permanent and agriculture, is sometimes described as strategies for sustainable agriculture, with the twin goals of maximizing yield and maintaining optimum long-term ecological health. With increasing numbers of people living in cities, and urban agriculture the subject of perennially renewed interest, permaculture offers many strategies beyond urban gardening that can be applied to both the design of the urban ecosystem and the modern city-dweller lifestyle.</font></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through this broader lens, permaculture is a whole-systems approach to human society, probing the ecological and sociological connections between human behavior and our cultivation of natural resources. Far broader than mere sustainable agriculture, permaculture is a design methodology for the human-ecological condition, and is the best answer to the question "What next?" Permaculture has the potential to transform the future, but first we have to bring it mainstream. How do we scale permaculture to redesign the massive agricultural, food, and consumer culture systems for long-term health and sustainability? What is the way forward given the sociopolitical challenges we currently face? How can a focus on local actions collectively alter a global system? Our experts </span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be discussing</span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> these questions and more at our permaculture forum on April 3rd, 2017.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">About the Sponsors:</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></b></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"></span></span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><font class="" face="Calibri"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="">The <span class=""><b class="">Sustainability Practice Network </b></span></span><font class=""><span class="">(SPN) is a New York based inter-disciplinary community of professionals who seek to learn and share knowledge to advance sustainable development across sectors and disciplines. We mobilize our members to practice sustainability in their lives and work. Our mission is to raise awareness of the importance of individual and corporate sustainability and thereby create a more stable and equitable world. Please visit <a href="http://www.sustainabilitypractice.net/" class="">www.sustainabilitypractice.net</a> </span></font></span></font></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><br class=""></font></span></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 15px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" color="red" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">City College of New York – Sustainability in the Urban Environment Program</span></b></span></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 15px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="red" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span></font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 15px; margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="red" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The Sustainability in the Urban Environment program at City College—established in 2009—is an interdisciplinary Master of Science program that trains current and emerging generations of professionals to address a wide range of pressing local, regional, and global sustainability problems. The program promotes environmental literacy, as well as advanced concepts and methodologies for meeting sustainability and resiliency challenges—especially the complex issues faced by urban centers such as New York City. Students from diverse academic backgrounds—architecture, engineering, sciences, and social sciences—acquire extensive experience in collaborative, interdisciplinary analysis and problem-solving, thereby contributing to the planning and design of just, environmentally sound, and prosperous cities. Please see our website at <a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sustainability/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk400077" previewremoved="true">https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sustainability/</a>.</span><br class=""></font></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="red" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>