Queens environmental group honors CUER’s Professor Bratspies
The Eastern Queens Alliance recently honored CUER Director Rebecca Bratspies at its annual Idlewild Wetland and Wildlife Benefit and Award Luncheon. This year’s theme, “Our Communities Matter,” resonated throughout the afternoon, as community activists discussed a…
(PHOTOS + VIDEO) Environmental Justice on the Cutting Edge – A Conversation with Dean Robert Bullard
On March 20, 2014, CUER co-hosted an evening conversation about environmental justice featuring Dr. Robert Bullard.
Mayah’s Lot in Action
With the generous support of the Northstar Fund’s Greening Western Queens Fund, CUER spent Spring 2013 and Fall 2014 working closely with fifth grade students at PS85Q in Astoria Queens.
Environmental Justice at City Council
On February 28, 2014, CUER Director Rebecca Bratspies testified before the City Council Environmental Committee.
Professor Bratspies writes on Greenpoint’s Environmental Benefit Fund as a Model for Community Participation
At first glance, Greenpoint seems much like many other ethnically diverse New York City neighborhood struggling with rapid gentrification.
Center for Urban Environmental Reform Tackles Subway Noise at PS 85 in Queens
Professor Rebecca Bratspies and student fellows with CUNY Law’s Center for Urban Environmental Reform (CUER) have been working closely with parents at PS85 in Astoria, Queens, to address noise from nearby subway tracks that is affecting…
Tales from Our Trash: New York City’s Sanitation Workers, Sustainable Cities, and the Value of Knowledge
We have a problem in New York City: We generate more than 30,000 tons of waste each day. Roughly one third of that waste is household trash, and the daunting task of collecting garbage from New…
A Comic Book Sparks Kids Toward Environmental Justice
In my first blog post for The Nature of Cities, I wrote about environmental justice as a bridge between traditional environmentalism and an increasingly urban global population. I suggested that we had work to do to…
Reaching New Audiences With an Environmental Justice Message
Environmental Justice, I bet you don’t even know what that means…I had no idea that it actually affects every one of us. That is, until it came to my home.
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CUER Fellows Comment on Rockaway’s Pipeline
Posted on December 13, 2013 by Rebecca Bratspies
On behalf of the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform, CUER Fellows Andy Jones and Ethan Middlebrooks recently submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the Rockaway Delivery Lateral…
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