Join SUMASA for a screening of the award-winning documentary Blue Vinyl: A Toxic Comedy Look at Vinyl, The World's Second Largest Selling Plastic. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand’s hometown to America’s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Wednesday, February 27th in Havemeyer at 8pm.
Sustainability Media Lab: Information Meeting – Wednesday, February 27th
Join the Sustainability Media Lab, a new student initiative at Columbia working to make sustainable development more accessible, relevant, and compelling across all forms of media. We’re looking for writers, journalists, researchers, filmmakers, designers, artist, web developers, social/digital strategists, and creatives from all academic backgrounds. The Sustainability Media Lab seeks to explore new ways to communicate sustainability through analysis of media behavior & content strategy. Find out how you can get involved at the Info Meeting on Wednesday, February 27th at 9PM in the CTV Studio (Lerner 5th floor). Get more info at sustainabilitymedialab.com & send questions to sustainabilitymedialab@gmail.com!
Consulting 101 Workshop: How Consulting Firms Win Work – Saturday, March 2nd
The next Sustainability Skills Seminar Series entitled Consulting 101: How Consulting Firms Win Work is on Saturday, March 2. Marc Tipermas, President of National Programs at Willdan Group Inc., will be conducting the seminar. For more information, read more!
MSSM Capstone Presented at GreenHomeNYC
On February 20th, MSSM student, Julia Ragragio Ruiz presented a capstone presentation on flood insurance in NYC at the February forum on flood reslience of GreenHome NYC. The presentation was featured along with Albert Wei of Kohn Pedersen Fox and Lance Jay Brown of Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design and a larger conversation about a flood insurance report prepared for the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability.
MSSM Student Inspired to Combat Climate Change
Current M.S. in Sustainability Management (MSSM) student Emily Dawson credits her parents and undergraduate studies at Middlebury College with instilling an interest in sustainability and sense of urgency for our warming planet. As a student in the program, Emily hopes to gain the practical skills and managerial training necessary to launch a career in climate science. Read the full interview on The Earth Institute Blog, State of the Planet!
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