Andy Hong, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah Register in advance to attend: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-6gpzIuGdGNKLKzqR1ces8xHqrBOvgM The COVID-19 pandemic coupled with climate change presents significant challenges to cities around the world. Yet, much of the contemporary urban planning paradigm still rely on conventional approaches to urban development focused on automobility and maintaining the status […]

Catalina de Onís, University of Oregon. Read more here: https://sustainability.utah.edu/gcsc-seminar-energy-justice-in-puerto-rico/ Online via Zoom. Register to attend: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEscu2grzIuHNaTzu0ndPwLmZxmst1el2aJ This presentation highlights urgent environmental, climate, and energy controversies and injustices in Puerto Rico, while also documenting how many grassroots energy actors resist and build alternatives to the suffocating status quo. Focusing on translation broadly construed, this presentation reflects […]

FASB 295. Come early for coffee & a cookie in the Confluence. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkf-qvqzkoGNZdPCoFI5mV_JXZwXX9MezB Over the past few years, an increasing number of U.S. colleges and universities have recognized the need to incorporate equity and justice into their institutional response to climate change. Several new resources have emerged to assist […]

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcufu6uqz0pHNZhICSMTFmlY-io-Umw66lQ Urban green spaces – including parks, tree canopy, green infrastructure, and other open spaces – have myriad benefits for human health, ecosystems, and economic development. Yet research shows that green space is inequitably distributed across racial/ethnic and socioeconomic lines in the U.S. and beyond. […]

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlcO2trjMvG9UWw4rybVGfQGl9xqoYTiLN ABSTRACT: First, I critically assess the current conservation-development paradigm and question the monetization of biodiversity so prevalent today (e.g., “wildlife must pay for itself”, and ecosystem services). I argue that in our rush to reconcile biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation, we fail to acknowledge […]