By Emellie O’Brien
I was a filmmaker before I was an environmentalist. If you had told me when I was in film school that I would be using my B.F.A. from Tisch to organize an industry-wide sustainability campaign, I would not have believed it. As a film producer, I viewed film as a creative vehicle for change. Little did I know that that hunger for change would lead me down a very different path. Read more
by Ammar Monawar
If you haven’t seen it already, check out NYU’s Summer 16 reading list. We would like to offer some additional books to check out this summer that focus on both the personal and societal aspects of green advocacy. Learn more about the ways sustainability impacts our lives!
1. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability CrisesEdited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch
With all the literature out on sustainability issues, it’s gotten difficult to know where exactly to begin. Thankfully, Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch gathered a group of experts to help break down these issues and provide their recommendations on how to deal with them. This collection of essays covers a range of topics dealing with everything from climate, energy, and food to culture and education. The Post Carbon Reader is a fantastic primer for acquainting yourself with the scope and range of issues sustainability advocates face today.
Happy ICAW to all! This week (May 1-7) is International Compost Awareness Week. The week-long educational event is hosted by the US Composting Council, who since 1999 have promoted biodegradable waste approaches through ICAW events and initiatives. This year’s theme is Compost: The Soil and Water Connection. The theme brings composting back to its roots (pardon the pun) by reminding us that despite amazing new technologies, composting is inevitably about taking some of the most fundamental, natural processes out there and putting them to use in our waste systems once again.
Well wait, let’s take a step back – why even compost to begin with? Read more
By Alex Buchholz
Last Monday, April 18, 2016, students, faculty and staff gathered in Eisner & Lubin Auditorium for NYU’s annual Fair Food Fest. The event, hosted by Real Food Challenge at NYU, commenced at 7pm with a keynote panel, moderated by leader of Real Food Challenge at NYU, Natalie Petrulla, which included speakers Marion Nestle, of NYU Steinhardt’s Food Studies department; Nadia Johnson, Policy and Advocacy Director/Farmers’ Market Network Manager at Just Food; George Reis, Supervisor of Landscaping at NYU; and Mike Hollis, Urban Farms Manager at Services for the UnderServed — all experts in their fields. The discussion revolved around the subject of urban agriculture and its future. I was particularly intrigued by the interactivity that held the diverse panel together — it seemed as if the four panelists worked together to construct a vivid image of our current and future states of agriculture. Attendee sat quietly, their attentions captured. During the open Q&A session, hands shot up like May flowers with questions ranging in topics from nutrition to federal government funding for fair food and hunger relief programs. Read more
By Omer Cohen
The second annual Go Green Week at NYU Shanghai begins the week of April 11th. A collaboration between the student clubs “Animal Rights & Herbivores Society” and “Green Shanghai,” the Go Green Week seeks to help the NYU Shanghai community to transition to a more sustainable lifestyle by raising awareness of the environmental, health, and ethical dilemmas of consuming of animal products. The Go Green Week also brings awareness to the environmental crises that our world is facing, and promote behaviour that will help to solve them. This year, student leaders at NYU Shanghai have collaborated with their colleagues at the New York and Abu Dhabi campuses in order to make this a global initiative. Read more
