As part of 十大电竞游戏综合排名’s ongoing initiative to address climate change and sustainability, 学院举办了 气候周研讨会 9月20日，与 哥伦比亚大学气候学院. In recognition of the biggest global climate event of its kind — 纽约气候周2022 (September 19-25) — the 气候周研讨会 was led by Goldmark桑德拉, Barnard’s Director of Campus 可持续性 and Climate 行动 and recently named Senior Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary 订婚 at 哥伦比亚大学气候学院.
The on-campus event featured a keynote address from Manhattan Borough President, 马克·莱文, who recently sponsored proposed legislation that would require the NYC Department of Sanitation to conduct a comprehensive study of new waste policy initiatives. He was previously the council member for the 7th District, which included Morningside Heights.
“I don’t think t在这里’s any institution, at least not in 纽约市, that is doing more to create a circular community than 十大电竞游戏综合排名,” mentioned Manhattan Borough President Levine in his keynote address. “You are going beyond the walls of this campus to start to build in the surrounding community, working with Morningside Area Alliance and Rheaply. Now we have to go citywide.”
The theme for Climate Week NYC is “Getting It Done," something Barnard does well through its sustainability and climate action initiatives 和嵌入式 可持续发展教育 为学生. The College has been steadily reducing waste emissions and is aiming to become the country's first “circular campus.”
“This summer, we partnered with the Morningside Area Alliance to provide our Rheaply 重用 platform at no cost to five local community organizations,” Goldmark wrote in a recent email to community members. “在校园里，我们的年度 给予与环保 move-out initiative diverted over 21,000 pounds of dorm supplies from landfill, much of which went to incoming Barnard students or FGLI students from around the City.”
Professor Goldmark, author of Fixation: How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet and founder of Fixup — a social enterprise dedicated to repair, 重用, and circular economy alternatives to overconsumption and waste — charts the paths of the next frontier in the environmental movement by talking about the power of circularity in climate crisis responses.
“为什么循环?” asked Goldmark, in her opening remarks. “Here’s what I found: Circularity is a powerful driver of emissions and waste reduction. Circularity can build jobs, build community connections, and resilience. It’s a way for individuals to start making changes right now. Starting to compost or shifting to buying more used goods, [circularity] is a way for communities to share resources and direct them to w在这里 they’re needed. It’s a way for cities to transform the flow of materials and waste — and address their indirect emissions, which far too often go undercounted. Circularity has a funny way of helping us connect the dots from the small to the large.”
In addition to the keynote speaker, the symposium featured a panel of science, 业务, and community leaders from across New York. 他们包括 副Okaro，创始人 定制的协作, which supports immigrant and low-income women launching sustainable fashion careers; 凯特·戴利, who leads the Center for Circular Economy at 关闭d Loop 合作伙伴; Rahsaan哈里斯, CEO of the Citizens Committee for 纽约市; and Professor of Professional Practice 布鲁斯开创, who is also the Elizabeth B. Strickler ' 86和Mark T. Gallogly ’86 教师 Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. 米歇尔·图拉克 Ellen MacArthur Foundation 主持小组讨论.
“Without collaboration, you can’t get anyw在这里,” 说 Daly. “Circularity is not something that you can just slap on the end of a project. But fortunately, it also means it's not something you can cut out at the end of the project. [Circularity] is something that is foundational and has to be done from the core. It's something that has to be embedded in that moment of design, before you create anything.”
Okaro envisioned policies that encourage environmental education in local communities. “I think that a fundamental part of this is education because it affects everybody,” she explained. “T在这里 are so many hands that we could help bring to this conversation, that can help solve these problems. If we can just educate people about what [circularity] is and w在这里 their places are in it, I think we would all feel a bit less despair.”
校园气候行动
Ending the event’s roundtable discussions on a note of optimism and camaraderie, environment and sustainability major 德莱尼·威灵顿，23届 说, “Regardless of what discipline you're in, everybody is impacted by climate change and we all need to uplift each other.”
Leading up to Climate Week NYC, the Student Government Association (SGA) hosted a Climate Week Celebration kickoff at Futter Field on September 17 and a Plant Your Own Microgreens event on September 19.
At the annual Fall Move-in Green Sale — a College-wide effort to support sustainable programming for a circular campus — incoming Barnard students purchased, 以折扣价格出售, gently used goods donated by students who moved out the previous academic year. 看 the video below, in which mini fridges are noted as prized purchases.
学生 know that climate and sustainability awareness is par for the course on campus. When Barnard took on the NYC Carbon Challenge in 2009, the College was one of NYC’s first institutions to reach a 30% reduction in emissions. With an aggressive move toward a 绿色校园 和一个全面的 2021-2022 End of Year Report, Barnard has become a key player in this year’s climate conversation. It has tripled the number of courses related to climate and sustainability, increased campus engagement by 12 times, and committed to 100% wind renewable energy credits (RECs) for its electricity. In its climate-focused intention of infusing praxis with pedagogy, Barnard’s Center for Engaged Pedagogy (CEP) will offer a Fall-教师 Co-Teaching retreat on September 23, with syllabus-design workshops to follow. A current list of fall sustainability-related courses can be found 在这里.
Learn more about Barnard’s collaborative 气候周研讨会 by visiting the 活动地点，在这里. And read a recent interview with Professor Goldmark, about circularity’s role in climate, 在这里.
