M.S. in Sustainability Management Integrative Capstone Workshop Final Briefings

Date:	December 04, 2012 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST
Location:	Columbia University Morningside Campus The Kraft Center, Rennert Hall
Contact:	For further information regarding this event, please contact Alyssa Dubov by sending email to adubov@ei.columbia.edu or by calling 212-851-9451.

The workshop final briefings are the culmination of semester-long projects on sustainability issues. Students are enrolled in small, faculty-advised project teams that address a real world sustainability issue or project and deliver recommendations to a client organization. This semester, students are working on the following projects:

Transforming NRDC Headquarters into a Net Zero Energy Facility (client: Natural Resources Defense Council)
Business Plan for the Healthy Urban Tree Initiative in New York City (client: The Nature Conservancy)
Stormwater Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation (client: New York State Department of Transportation)
Assessment of the Potential to Divert Commercial Organic Waste from Landfills (client: City of New York, Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability)
Resilient Sustainable Communities: Integrating Hazard Mitigation and Sustainability in Local Planning (client: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency)

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