Greening the City: Fostering Inspiring and Innovative Leadership for Just and Sustainable Urban Communities

November 6th - 8th, 2009

Location:
Lesley University
University Hall
1815 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Friday, November 6th:

• 6:30-7:15 PM Atrium - Reception
• 7:15-7:30 PM Atrium - Opening Remarks (Laura Johnson President of Mass Audubon, Martha McKenna, Provost of Lesley University)
• 7:30-9:00 PM Amphitheater - Presenter
  “Toward a Just Sustainability,” Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA, Professor and Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University

Saturday, November 7th:

• 9:00-10:15 AM Amphitheater - Presenter
  Chris Leahy, Gerard A. Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology at the Mass Audubon
• 10:30-11:50 AM - Workshops
  3rd & 4th Floors, University Hall
• 12:00-1:00 PM Atrium - Lunch
• 1:00 - 2:00 PM Amphitheater - Panel: Ecological Teaching & Learning in the Urban Setting
  Coleen O’Connell, Faculty, M.S. Ecological Teaching and Learning, Lesley University; Gloria Villegas-Cardoza, Director of Education, Mass Audubon, Boston area educators; John Sullivan, Boston College High School Science Teacher; Anne Lewenberg, Freedom School, Worcester, MA
• 2:15-3:30 PM - Workshops
  3rd & 4th Floors, University Hall
• 3:45-4:45 PM Amphitheater - Presenter
  Greg Watson, Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Vice President for sustainable development with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

Sunday, November 8th:

• 9:00 -10:15 AM Amphitheater - Brian Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Studies, Antioch of New England, Faculty, M.A. in Urban Environmental Leadership, Lesley University, Educator, researcher, and NGO administrator, specializing in environmental education and program evaluation.
• 10:30-11:50 AM - Workshops
  3rd & 4th Floors, University Hall
• 12:00-1:00 PM Atrium - Lunch
• 1:15-2:30 PM Amphitheater - Presenter
  “Liberation Ecology -- Shedding Disempowering Ideas to Create the World We Want"                                                                                                                                          Frances Moore Lappé, democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 16 books

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