Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser.

This Month's Discussion

Urban Sustainability: Youth - The Missing Solution?

June 23rd, 2010 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PST

Are youth the missing link in achieving greater urban sustainability? Listen in to a discussion with young interns and experts from around the world talking about their experiences in leading-edge international initiatives being used to engage youth in long-term planning and urban sustainability.

Moderated by Professor Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development, and led in partnership with the International Centre for Sustainable Cities http://sustainablecities.net, panelists include:

Steve Dotterrer, Principle Planner City of Portland
Pam Phan, Youth Planning Program coordinator, City of Portland
Kathleen Wilson, Youth Led Development Coordinator at The Co-operators, Regina
Caitlin Purvis, Sustainable Cities Youth Interns in Colima, Mexico
Doug Ragan, Senior Associate with Sustainable Cities, and PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado’s Children, Youth and Environments Centre
Rebecca Foon, Planner with Sustainability Solutions Group
Afton Halloran, Sustainable Cities Urban Agriculture Youth Intern in Dar es Salam, Tanzania (Afton will contribute her insights and experience after the panel discussion has concluded due to her location in Tanzania)

This e-Dialogue is first in a series being led in partnership with the Sustainable Cities: PLUS Network. The expert panel will take questions from the e-audience during the last half hour of their discussion. Don’t hesitate to make a contribution to the conversation, join us for this e-Dialogue on June 23rd.

We would appreciate if you would share this announcement widely with your own networks and your students on our behalf.

ABOUT THIS SERIES

The International Centre of Sustainable Cities and Royal Roads University is presenting a series of five real-time electronic dialogues to discuss different ways cities have been able to instigate sustainable urban solutions. These conversations will contribute to public policy discussion to increase civic literacy and to speed the exploitation of knowledge between researchers, practitioners, decision- makers and community leaders across the country.
sign up to participate

UPCOMING DISCUSSIONS

Governance for Urban Sustainability, October 2010
This discussion will examine some of the new and innovative models for governance emerging that are informing integrated sustainability thinking in cities around the world. Bringing together leaders of specific innovative initiatives each will outline key factors of success and will speak about the challenges that they have faced while sharing their vision for new models of governance for the 21st century.