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Watch the 'Designing a Green New Deal' livestream here

We're Designing a Green New Deal in the McHarg Center

 

Irvine Auditorium | 9:30 am to 7:30 pm | Livestream

In what promises to be the single-biggest climate event ever organized at the University of Pennsylvania, we're thrilled to host Designing a Green New Deal in the McHarg Center. More than 2,000 people have registered to attend this landmark event, and we expect that thousands more will view it in real-time on our livestream. We've also made the livestream available directly on the homepage of our website to make sure it's as easy to find as possible.

In partnership with the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, the Architecture Lobby, PennPraxis, the Penn Population Studies Center, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center, Designing a Green New Deal features 23 of the world's leading environmental thinkers, activists, and policy experts, including: Naomi Klein, Jane McAlevey, Julian Noisecat, Varshini Prakash, Stephanie Kelton, Kate Orff, Kate Aronoff, Leah Stokes, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, David Roberts, Kerene Tayloe, Peggy Deamer, Nancy Levinson, Jen Light, Nicholas Pevzner, Raj Patel, Mary Heglar, Francesca Ammon, Karen M'Closkey, Allison Lassiter, Ellen Neises, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Billy Fleming.

Whatever form the Green New Deal takes, it will be understood by most people through the buidlings, landscapes, public works, and transformations in the built environment that it creates. It is the single-biggest design and environmental idea in a century, and we're thrilled to be working with a new generation of leaders to help shape it.

If you can't make to Philadelphia tomorrow, don't worrywe have you covered. The event will be livestreamed on the Weitzman School's Vimeo account, the video recording will be made available shortly afterwards on our site, and the audio recording will be cut up and used to release four new episodes of Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff's Hot & Bothered climate podcast with Dissent Magazine later this fall (with Billy Fleming joining as their guest).

Finally, we just want to emphasize that the auditorium will be packed! Please arrive on time (or early), be mindful of where you sit, and pack a snack or two.

Don't miss your chance to participate in this historic event!

Event Details
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Further Reading

Billy Fleming's "Design and the Green New Deal" for Places Journal

Daniel Aldana Cohen's "Eco-Apartheid is Real" for The Nation

Rhiana Gunn-Wright on The Ezra Klein Show

Nancy Levinson's "Open and Shut" for Places Journal

Nicholas Pevzner's "The Green New Deal, Landscape, and Public Imagination" for Landscape Architecture Magazine

Leah Stokes' "With Hurricane Dorian looming, Democratic Candidates Discuss their Climate Plans" in Washington Post

Raj Patel's "A Green New Deal for Agriculture" in Jacobin

Mary Heglar's "Climate Change Ain't the First Existential Threat"

Kate Aronoff's "Could a Green New Deal Make Us Happier?" in The Intercept

Kerene Tayloe in The Grist's "Grist 50: 2019"

Stephanie Kelton's "How to Tell When Deficit Spending Crosses a Line" in Bloomberg

Varshini Prakash in Vox's "Varshini Prakash and the Sunrise Movement's plan for the Green New Deal"

Julian Noisecat's "No, climate action can't be separated from social justice" in The Guardian

David Robert's "A beginner's guide to the debate over nuclear power and climate change" in Vox

Jane McAlevey's "Strike!" in The Nation

Naomi Klein's "The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal" in The Intercept

Jennifer Light's "The City as National Resource" in the Journal of Urban History

The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology

In the spirit of Ian McHarg’s renowned philosophy for “Designing with Nature”, The Center’s mission is to build on the Weitzman School of Design’s position as a global leader in urban ecological design by bringing environmental and social scientists together with planners, designers, policy-makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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Designing a Green New Deal | September 13th | Irvine Auditorium


This event is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage as part of the Center's Design With Nature Now exhibitions.

The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is an interdisciplinary think tank that brings environmental and social scientists together with planners, designers, policy-makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

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