Oct. 6, 6:30-9pm
The Bioregional Approach to Sustainable Cities
Peter Berg
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34 St
$15; $5 students
Cities need to become sustainable in order to improve human living conditions for half the world's population, reduce ecological threats to the Earth's biosphere, and harmonize with natural systems. In order to advance urban sustainability, it is essential that we come to view cities in regard to their particular bioregion. A bioregional approach to urban plans, designs, buildings, and policies is geared toward restoring and maintaining natural systems, developing ways to satisfy basic human needs, and supporting means to fit into the ecological life-place.
Food, water, refuse, sewage, energy, materials and production, transportation, education and culture, parks and open spaces, and sustainable planning can all be viewed within a bioregional context.
In this lecture and workshop, noted ecologist Peter Berg will discuss bioregional approaches to creating sustainable cities and examples of cities that are currently implementing these approaches.
Peter Berg,
Founder and Director, Planet Drum Foundation; author, numerous books including Dispatches From Ecuador and Discovering Your Life-Place: A First
Bioregional Workbook.
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