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

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: 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

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 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

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: 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

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

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.

Fisher and Ramaswami discuss Sustainable Healthy Cities, Urban Design & Disruptive Technologies to launch our network’s Spring 2017 course

Join us Friday for a discussion on: Sustainable Healthy Cities, Urban Design & Disruptive Technologies 

Led by: Prof. Thomas Fisher, Director, Minnesota Design Center, University of Minnesota College of Design, discussing: Disruptive Technology and Urban Form 

and

Prof. Anu Ramaswami, Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota, on: Meta-Principles for Developing Smart, Sustainable, and Healthy Cities

Followed by an on-line discussion about our urban future, connecting systems thinking, urban design, sustainability and health assessments with disruptive technologies.

Friday January 20, 3:00 to 4:30 PM Central

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).

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

Professor Lutgarde Raskin wins the ISME/IWA Biocluster Award Grand Prize

Congratulations to SRN member, Professor Lutgarde Raskin, who has won the ISME/IWA Biocluster Award Grand Prize in 2016. This prestigious prize rewards interdisciplinary research at the interface of microbial ecology and water/wastewater treatment.

Rahul Sharma and Professor Gabe Chan Provide Commentary for Nature Energy

Read University of Minnesota PhD Rahul Sharma and Professor Gabe Chan’s invited commentary in Nature Energy, “Energy poverty: Electrification and well-being.” The commentary is based on a paper Sharma and Chan reviewed for the journal, and engages with questions on how rural energy poverty is measured, and which measures are better suited for policy decisions.