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CLIMATE CHANGES:
Jon Dickinson, the New York City Office of Environmental Coordination
deputy director, delivers the keynote address for Focus the Nation, a
nation-wide day of education, discussion and activism to address climate
change, in Memorial Chapel Jan. 31. Wesleyan was one of 1,550
universities, schools, businesses, and places of worship that took part
in Focus the Nation. Dickinson focused on proposed climate change, air
and water quality, transportation and clean energy initiatives in the
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To a full chapel audience, Dickinson said
New York City's goal is "to have the cleanest air quality of every city
in America." New York City currently has four times more air pollution
than the average U.S. city, he explained. By 2030, the city plans to
plant 1 million trees and eliminate 3,000 tons of soot in the air each
year. The city has plans to implement cleaner, more reliable power,
upgrade the transportation system and have 99 percent of all city
residents living within a 10 minute walk to an open land or recreation
area. (Photos by Olivia Bartlett)
In addition to the keynote address, Wesleyan
faculty included topics of climate change in their course material for
the day; Long Lane Farm and Bon Appetit served a sustainable dinner at
the Usdan University Center; Jeffrey Wolfe of GroSolar presented An
Inconvenient Truth Slideshow; the Environmental Organizer's Network
(EON) co-sponsored a film, Circus for a Fragile Planet; EON led three
panels on policy response, corporate and intuitional response and
climate and social justice. On Jan. 30, Wesleyan
took part in "The 2% Solution," a live and interactive webcast featuring
Stephan Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green jobs
pioneer Van Jones, and renowned actor Edward Norton. |
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