OFF-SITE EVENT W/ JOAN FITZGERALD, AUTHOR of EMERALD CITIES: URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Street:
- Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
- Additional:
- 1708 I Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
Join us at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship for this engaging author event and panel discussion.
Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, Portland, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence, and social justice. Cities are major sources of pollution but because of their population density, reliance on public transportation, and other factors; Fitzgerald argues that they are uniquely suited to promote and benefit from green economic development. She also examines how investing in green research and technology may help to revitalize older industrial cities. Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.
Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.
Co-sponsored by Sustainable Connections and the Green Sanctuary and Social Justice teams of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, tonight's event will include a presentation by author Joan Fitzgerald, followed by a community panel discussion. Panel participants include:
- Derek Long, Executive Director, Sustainable Connections
- Tara Sundin, Special Projects Manager, Planning & Community Development Department, City of Bellingham
- Rick Nicholson, Director of Service Development, Whatcom Transit Authority
- Tom Anderson, Initiating member of Transition Whatcom
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