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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class="">6:00
– 8:00pm <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class="">Venue:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
ArialMT" class=""> Grove School of Engineering at City College l Steinman
Lecture Hall - 160 Convent Avenue NY, NY (between 140 & 141 Sts)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class="">Moderator:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
ArialMT" class=""> <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Hillary Brown, FAIA, 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><br class="">
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<!--[endif]--><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">Panelists:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Andrew Faust, Permaculture and
Bioregional Educator, Designer at Center for Bioregional Living; Ashley Muse,
Senior Sustainability Manager, YR&G; Philip Silva, Co-founder and
Co-director, TreeKIT; Associate Editor, The Nature of Cities; Monica Ibacache, Founder and Executive Director,
Beyond Organic Design; Henry Sweets, Co-Founder, North Brooklyn Farms</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
ArialMT" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class="">Topic:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
ArialMT" class=""> </span><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">'<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Permaculture
and Urban Eco-System Design'</span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" 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.<br class="">
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<!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">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 will be discussing these questions and more at our
permaculture forum on April 3rd, 2017.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class="">About
the Sponsors:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT" class="">The <b class="">Sustainability
Practice Network </b>(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 </span><u class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
ArialMT;color:#1155CC" class=""><a href="http://www.sustainabilitypractice.net" class="">www.sustainabilitypractice.net</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
ArialMT;color:#500050" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;
color:#500050" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" class="">City College of New York – Sustainability in the Urban Environment
Program</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;color:#212121" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;color:#212121" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" 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 </span><u class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1155CC" class=""><a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sustainability/" class="">https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sustainability/</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;" class="">.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;
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