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Students Prepare for Free 'Green' Walking Tour Scheduled for May 1
Students and Professor Michals (second from left) take a break on Brooklyn Heights Promenade during their pre-planning for May 1 GreenWalk.
Photo credit: Eric Chan.
Several City Tech students will lead GreenWalk, a walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO on Thursday, May 1, 2008, from 12:30 to 2 p.m., exploring selected urban environmental challenges and sustainable solutions implemented in these two neighborhoods. The public is invited on this free tour.
Developed by students in five different disciplines -- chemistry, English, communication design, hospitality management and physics -- the tour will offer a range of perspectives on environmental concerns in areas immediately surrounding the College. Issues considered will include global warming, the tendency for cities to be warmer than outlying areas (the "Urban Heat Island Effect"), garbage and power generation, while solutions will include recycling and composting, bio-fuel use, green building techniques, absorption of CO2 by trees and local food consumption.
Students on Jay Street in DUMBO walking and photographing GreenWalk route.
Photo credit: Professor Robin Michals.
Participants will gather between 12:15 and 12:30 p.m. at the southeast corner of Jay Street and Tillary. The walk will proceed down Jay Street into DUMBO and the waterfront, then follow Washington Street up to Cadman Plaza East to the Columbus Park Green Market and conclude at City Tech with a reception from 2 to 2:30 p.m. The reception will include refreshments and a brief presentation on green roofs and the Urban Heat Island Effect.
With funding from The City University of New York (CUNY) through its Faculty Development Grant, the tour was produced by City Tech professors Monica Berger (Library), Reginald Blake (Physics), Anne Leonard (Library), Robin Michals (Advertising Design & Graphic Arts), Mark Noonan (English), Susan Phillip (Hospitality Management) and Peter Spellane (Chemistry).
Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land, and William D. Solecki PhD, director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, served as consultants to the project.
For more information, contact Professor Robin Michals at 718.260.5154 or e-mail info@brooklyngreenwalk.org or go to http://www.brooklyngreenwalk.org. The rain date is May 9.
4/8/08
