April 22nd, 2019 Earth Day presentations.
| 10:00 — 10:45 | Reflections on the True Cost of Oil Garth Lenz, editorial and fine art photographer on the changes he has and has not seen since his seminal Ted Talk. |
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| 11:00 — 12:00 | No Idle Threat: Citizen’s Fight For Cleaner Air You wouldn’t drink dirty water, so why would you choose to breathe dirty air? Since 1971, NYC has had one of the most aggressive anti-idling laws in the nation. Until recently, this law has largely gone unenforced. Thanks to the support of NYC’s DEP, citizens have recently been enabled to self-report idling vehicles and receive 25% of each fine ($87.50). Panelists who are working on helping their community to breathe cleaner air include: George Pakenham (activist filmmaker), Geraldine Kelpin (Director, Division of Air/Noise Policy and Enforcement NYC DEP), Samara Swanston (legislative counsel to the Environmental Protection Commitee of the New York City Council), Karl Storchmann (Prof. Stern), and Lee Doyle (producer, Vice News). |
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| 12:30 — 2:00 | The unWired Forest: (BRF+Courant+Tisch+C)=X Through the collective efforts of panelists William Schuster (Executive Director, Black Rock Forest) David Mordecai (Courant), Samantha Kappagoda (Courant) and Edwin Reed-Sanchez (Courant, Adjunct Professor, ITP), Black Rock Forest was awarded a $750,000 NSF grant to develop wireless mesh communications in the forest. This signals the opportunity to stream real-time sensor data from within a 5,000 acre ecological reserve creating an opportunity for diverse projects. |
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| 3:00 — 4:00 | Changing Climate and Human Health Cheryl Healton, Dean of the NYU College of Global Public Health, will present “The Corporate Influence Epidemic” during this period of changing climate and crucial health problems. Ella Watson-Stryker, Humanitarian Affairs Officer for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)will speak about the humanitarian challenges to public health with a warming climate. |
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| 5:00 — 6:00 | What the data indicates: Imagining the Unimaginable Michael Oppenheimer SB, PhD (Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton) and Peter Terezakis (Prof. Tisch) will discuss what data suggests with respect to a changing climate. |
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| 7:30 — 9:00 | Look and See (film on the work of Wendell Berry) An important and poetic documentary on the writing of Wendell Berry by Laura Dunn and Jef Sewell. |
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Dean’s Conference Room, 721 Broadway, 12th floor, 10003
