[SPN-Discussion] SPN Panel - Sustainable Living - Personal Responsibility and the Planet - February 10th

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Sustainable Living - Personal Responsibility and the Planet
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Date / Time: February 10, 2009 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Venue: NYU Center for Global Affairs / Woolworth Building (Broadway &
Barclay)
15 Barclay Street (enter on Barclay Street)
4th Floor - Present ID at Ground Floor Reception
Subways - 2,3 at Park Place 4,5,6 at City Hall



Panelists: Colin Beavan, Steven Greenberg

Moderator:
<http://www.sustainabilitypractice.net/panelist_bios_052008.html> Steve
Godeke, Principal, Godeke Consulting 

Panel Description:


This panel will focus on the actions which every individual can take to make
a difference in impacting global environmental challenges such as climate
change.  The challenge of creating a sustainable world has often been framed
as an engineering problem which can be addressed with proper technology or
as an issue of economic incentives and market pricing.  Governmental
regulations are developed through a public policy process which should
represent and balance the needs of all stakeholders.  While these top-down
approaches are necessary and important, are they sufficient to bring about
change at the scale needed to save our planet?  How can we think about the
connection between our actions as individuals, families and communities and
the global issues of sustainability?  What role can ethics and faith play in
making this connection?   

 

Panelists: 

Colin Beavan aka No Impact Man (http://noimpactman.typepad.com/) describes
himself as a "guilty liberal that finally snaps, swears off plastic and goes
organic."  Colin is a non-fiction writer and internet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger> blogger noted for recording his
family's attempt to live a
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zero_impact&action=edit&redlink=1
> zero impact lifestyle in  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City> New
York City for one year.  The rules of the experiment included producing no
trash other than  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost> compost, purchasing
no goods except for food grown within a 250-mile radius, using no
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon> carbon-based transportation, and using
no paper products.  A documentary film about Colin and his family was
screened earlier this year at the Sundance Festival.  Colin is also the
author of Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War (Viking,
2006) and Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case
that Launched Forensic Science (Hyperion, 2001).  His work has appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Mens' Journal, Mens' Health, Glamour,
Cosmopolitan, and many other national magazines.  Colin has appeared on
NPR's All Things Considered, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Talk of the Nation, and
many other nationally syndicated NPR and commercial radio shows.  He lives
in New York City with his wife Michelle Conlin, the accomplished
BusinessWeek writer and editor, and their daughter, Isabella.

 

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is an award-winning author and noted teacher.  He is
a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Jewish Center for Learning and
Leadership (CLAL), a think tank, leadership training institute and resource
center based in New York City.  He received his B.A. in Philosophy from
Yeshiva University and his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary.  Since 1985 Rabbi Greenberg has served at the CLAC and
conducted hundreds of programs for communal lay and professional leaders of
Jewish Federations, synagogues and philanthropic institutions in over fifty
cities in North America.  Rabbi Greenberg isn't afraid of a challenge.  He
has broken boundaries and led the fight to make Orthodox Judaism more open
and inclusive and accepting of homosexual members.  Steve was featured in
the acclaimed 2001 film Trembling Before G-d, about Orthodox gay Jews, and
has appeared in over 500 post-screening community dialogues throughout the
world.  In 1996, Rabbi Greenberg was recognized as a master educator and was
awarded a prestigious Jerusalem Fellowship which provided him two years in
Jerusalem to study educational policy issues and to research the biblical
and rabbinic attitudes towards sexuality.  Steven is currently a
Scholar-in-Residence at Hazon, an organization which works to create a
healthier and more sustainable Jewish community - as a step towards a
healthier and more sustainable world for all.  Hazon looks at food through
the double prism of Jewish tradition and contemporary life.  Hazon's work
includes Community-Supported Agriculture programs in the American Jewish
community, as well as educational curricula, work in schools, an annual
conference and a blog. 

 

Moderator:

Steven Godeke, Principal, Godeke Consulting.  Steven is an independent
investment advisor who works with foundations, corporations, and non-profit
organizations to integrate their financial and philanthropic goals.  Steven
advises his clients on the creation and execution of mission-related
investment strategies across asset classes and program areas.  His services
include due diligence, negotiation, and documentation of mission-related
investments, mission-related investment manager searches, and portfolio
performance measurement.  Steven is an adjunct professor at New York
University's Center for Global Affairs where he currently teaches a course
in Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship.  Prior to establishing his own
firm, Steven worked for twelve years in corporate and project finance with
Deutsche Bank where he structured debt and equity products and advised
corporate clients in the telecommunications, media, real estate and natural
resources industries.  Steven grew up on a family farm in Southern Indiana,
and attended Purdue University where he received a B.S. in Management and a
B.A. in German.  He studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of
Cologne and earned an M.P.A. from Harvard University.  


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