Videos

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing

Every affordable housing project can achieve the fundamentals of good green building design and practice and contribute to creating sustainable and resilient communities. Kim Vermeer and Walker Wells shared innovative practices, the latest affordable housing financing strategies, and examples of places and projects where these strategies have worked in practice.

Bird-Friendly and Biophilic City: Integrating Safe, Natural Habitats into Urban Design and Planning

Tim Beatley, the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia, outlined the essential elements of a biophilic city and provided examples of cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements--from the building to the regional level--around the world.

Half-Earth Day 2020 Presents: Naturalist - A Graphic Adaptation

E.O. Wilson’s passion for nature, discovery, and ideas that make us rethink the world is unmatched. When first published more than 25 years ago, Dr. Wilson’s memoir, Naturalist, was called “one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written” by the Los Angeles Times. Naturalist is an inspiring account of Wilson’s growth as a scientist and the evolution of the fields he helped define.

Webinar: The Affordable City

As communities struggle to address rising housing costs and household instability, the debate often centers on solutions such as increased housing construction and stronger tenant protections.

Right of Way: Organizing for equitable, walkable communities

Healthy, vibrant communities are often places where you can walk safely to school, the grocery store, or just down the street to a neighbors house. Walkable communities are good for our physical health, but also our neighborhood's health. And yet, pedestrian deaths are up 50% in the last decade, and the stark geographic patterns of traffic violence tell a story about systemic inequality—where immigrants, the poor, and people of color are disproportionately impacted by traffic violence.

Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy

A discussion with Jennie C. Stephens, Director and Professor, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University.

Greening Design and Construction Practices: Current Events Urban Resilience

In the US alone, more than one billion square feet of building materials are deposited into landfills each year as a result of the construction industry. As we approach a new era of environmental regulations and climate change impacts, those performing new construction, adaptive reuse, and restoration must consider the byproduct of their work and how to minimize their footprint. In this webinar, we heard from a series of practitioners who are taking steps to reduce the output of their practice.

Housing and Racial Justice: Current Events Urban Resilience

To understand housing inequities that exist today, we must look to how we have developed and built our communities in the past. Collectively, speakers in this webinar drew from their work to offer valuable insight into the current housing crisis in America, the lines that are drawn within it among race and income levels, and what steps are necessary for our cities to move forward.

Closing Plenary: Current Events Urban Resilience

At our Closing Plenary, Jes McBride dove into the concept of Pattern Language - a method for food planning and distribution among human-scale communities. Vital to urban resilience and food security, this approach requires planners to take on the role of observer, supporter, and connector by working with local entrepreneurs and leaders as they aim to meet the complex needs of a large population.

Whiteness in Environmental Advocacy: Current Events Urban Resilience

From its very origins, the environmental movement has been dominated by white voices. Meanwhile, environmental racism and climate change are targeting communities that are quieted or left out of the conversation. This webinar looks to the future of the environmental movement to explore a more inclusive, and more effective, path forward.