Funded grad program in Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia University & The Earth Institute’s Security and Sustainability Forum

The following is an announcement from the Security and Sustainability Forum:

This is the first full tuition grant in the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. All prospective students who apply to the program by Jan. 15, 2015, will be eligible for the Fellowship, valued at approximately $72,000.

This 12-month program-jointly developed by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and The Earth Institute-trains sophisticated managers and policymakers to apply innovative, interdisciplinary and sustainable solutions to environmental issues. The integrated approach reflects the system-level thinking that is needed to understand ecological interactions and maintain the health of Earth’s interconnected systems.

Graduates are working in diverse organizations domestically and globally as consultants, environmental protection and restoration specialists, project managers, policy analysts, directors of environmental services, environmental and public health advisors, teachers, researchers, and environmental biologists and engineers.

For more information about the program, visit the website.

If someone in your networks would benefit from the education that the program offers, please forward this email to them.

Also, please consider joining the more than 1000 people who have already registered for the next Security and Sustainability Forum Webinar this Thursday, October 30th:

Designing and Planning for Healthy Cities – A Conversation With Georges Benjamin Richard Jackson and Tim Beatley

Thursday, October 30, 2014

12:45 to 2:00 PM EDT

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well-designed built environments.

Benjamin, Beatley, and Jackson will discuss creating cities that that are compelling and healthy places to live, work and play.

Speakers

  • Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Directive of APHA
  • Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, faculty member in the departments of Pediatrics, Urban Planning, and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA
  • Timothy Beatley, Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia

The Security and Sustainability Forum appreciates the work of our co-producer, APHA, and our promotional partners for their support on this webinar; the National Environmental Health AssociationNortheast-Midwest Institute, the Center for Climate Change Communication, and the National Council for Science and the Environment. Special thanks also go to the sponsor for this webinar and many other SSF webinars, Island Press. Register for Island Press email updates at the bottom of its website.

Learn more about the Smart Grid, Electric Power Regulation & Legal Issues

Vermont Law School‘s 1st Annual Alumni in Energy Symposium

has opened registration to the public

Thursday, November 6, 2014 

1:15 – 7:30 EDT 

Morgan Lewis, 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC

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The VLS Alumni in Energy, The  Vermont Law School (VLS) Institute for Energy and the Environment , and the   Environmental Law Institute are co-sponsoring the Vermont Law School’s first annual Alumni in Energy Symposium. Participants will hear interactive discussions facilitated by key legal experts in energy, environmental law and regulation on some of the most cutting edge issues facing industry and policy makers today.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

  • Michael Dworkin, Director, Institute for Energy and the Environment, VLS
  • Julie Simon, Deputy Director, Division of Policy Development, Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Kevin Jones, Deputy Director and Professor of Energy Technology and Policy, Institute for Energy and the Environment, VLS
  • Stephen Spina, Partner, Morgan Lewis
  • Pat Parenteau, Senior Counsel to Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and Professor of Law, VLS
  • Phil Davis, Senior Manager, Demand Response/Smart Grid Resource Center, Schneider Electric
  • Michael J. Myers ’93, New York State Attorney General’s Office
  • Holly Rachel Smith, Assistant General Counsel, National Association of Regulatory Utility, Commissioners

This practical program offers legal instruction and will provide 3 CLE credits for the legal practitioner.

To view the agenda for the symposium and to register, click here.