Virtual Forum: Water-Wastewater and Stormwater-Green Infrastructure, Pt. 1

Join us today, Friday, 4/14, for a discussion on: Water-Wastewater and Stormwater-Green Infrastructure, Pt.1:

Led by: Dr. Paige Novak (University of Minnesota) & Dr. Lut Raskin (University of Michigan)
Discussing: What does (and can and should) wastewater treatment look like in the context of an integrated, distributed FEWS network?

Friday April 14, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

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These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Richard Plunz and Dana Boyer discuss Urban Agriculture and Food Systems

Join us Wednesday, 4/12, for a discussion on: Urban Agriculture and Food Systems, Pt. 2:

Led by: Prof. Richard Plunz (Columbia University) Discussing: The Food System in New York City &

Dana Boyer (PhD, University of Minnesota) Discussing: What is the Contribution of City Actions on  Environmental Impacts on Urban Food Systems?

Wednesday April 12, 11:15 to 12:30 PM Central

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These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Transportation Design & Policy for Sustainable Healthy Cities (Pt.2)

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Transportation Design & Policy for Sustainable Healthy Cities, Pt. 2:

Potential Outcomes from (Shared, Electric) Automated Vehicles

Led by: Frank Douma (University of Minnesota) & Dr. Kara Kockelman (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday March 24, 2:30 to 4:30PM Central

To view or join the discussion on Friday: Join Here, Access Code: 383-419-437. To view presentations ahead of time:  https://utexas.app.box.com/s/ehnbzp0cjbii3fmm4wysowjg6wgp5a57

These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Transportation Design & Policy for Sustainable Healthy Cities – Part 1

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Transportation Design and Policy for Sustainable Healthy Cities, Pt.1: Outcomes from Land Use, Transit, and Bicycling

Led by: Anu Ramaswami (University of Minnesota)
Discussing: Summary of lessons from previous classes on Energy, transitioning to Transportation, Wedge analysis paper (2:30-3:00)

Jueyu Wang and Greg Lindsey (University of Minnesota)
Discussing: Bikesharing (3:00-3:40) & 

Xinyi Wu & Jason Cao (tent) (University of Minnesota) Discussing: Land Use and Transit (3:45-4:25)

Closing Discussion (4:25-4:30)

Friday March 10, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

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These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Chan, Orlove, Curley and Feiock discuss Energy and Urban Infrastructure

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Energy and Urban Infrastructure

Led by: Gabe Chan (University of Minnesota)
Discussing: Community Solar, Financing and Equity (2:30-3:00)

Ben Orlove (Columbia University)
Discussing: Decision Architecture, Messaging and Energy Conservation (3:00-3:30) 

&
Cali Curley & Rick Feiock (Florida State University) Discussing: Field Insights Energy Conservation, and future work on Demand Response (3:30-4:00)

Friday March 3, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

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These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Panel: Distributed Energy in Cities

Join us Friday for a Virtual Panel on: Distributed Energy in Cities

Led by: Dan Zimmerle (Colorado State), Sairaj Dhople (University of Minnesota), Vijay Modi (Columbia University), Mo Li (University of Minnesota), & Anu Ramaswami (University of Minnesota)

(2:30-3:30)

Moderated by Frank Douma (University of Minnesota)

Friday February 24, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

 

To view or join the discussion on Friday: Join Here, Access Code: 383-419-437.

These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

 

 

Virtual Forum: Ana Vang, Kelly Muellman and Rick Feiock discuss Long-Term Urban Planning, Climate Action, and Health Planning

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Long-Term Urban Planning, Climate Action, and Health Planning

 Led by: Ana Vang (Policy Associate, Office of St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman) & Kelly Muellman (Sustainability Program Coordinator, City of Minneapolis) Discussing: Long-Term Urban Planning for Sustainability (2:30-3:30) &

Rick Feiock (Florida State University) Discussing: Institutional Collective Action Framework (cont’d) (3:30-4:30)

Friday February 17, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

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These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Fan and Convertino discuss Urban Form, City Scaling, and City Typologies

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Urban Form, City Scaling, and City Typologies

 Led by: Yingling Fan  (Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Minnesota) & Matteo Convertino (Asst Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota)

Friday February 10, 2:30 to 4:30 PM Central

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Participants can view PowerPoint presentations on these topics before the forum by opening the PDFs here and here. (For copies of the narrated PowerPoints, contact srn.cities@gmail.com).

These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Kirti Das, Rick Feiock and Anu Ramaswami discuss Wellbeing Studies and Social Actor Theories of Change

Kirti Das, Rick Feiock and Anu Ramaswami  will discuss Wellbeing Studies and Social Actor Theories during our network’s spring course Friday, February 3, 2017.

Kirti Das (University of Minnesota) discussing: Early Results from our Network Studies in Delhi and Minneapolis & Rick Feiock (Florida State University) & Anu Ramaswami (University of Minnesota) discussing: Scenario Modeling and Theories of Change in Urban Infrastructure Transitions.

These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.

Virtual Forum: Nagpure, Boyer and Lal discuss Advances in Measuring Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Provisioning in Cities during our network’s spring course

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Advances in Measuring Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Provisioning in Cities

Led by: Ajay Nagpure and Dana Boyer (University of Minnesota) Discussing: Inequity in Infrastructure Provision and the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in Delhi, India

& Raj Lal (Georgia Tech) Discussing: Differential Air Pollution Exposure and Links with Health in Agra, India

Friday January 27, 3:30 to 4:30 PM Central. To view or join the discussion on Friday: Join Here, Access Code: 383-419-437.

These lectures and discussions are part of a course offered by the MSSTEP Program and the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, Infrastructure Transformations for Sustainable Healthy Cities: Design and Policy.