BY TFN STAFF
TFN’s President and CEO Patricia Smith will be joining Southface Institute’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable as part of Climate Week NYC. She’ll join a global panel of women thought-leaders as they discuss regenerative placemaking, climate-smart architecture, spatial justice and the supporting mechanisms that can increase the momentum toward equity and sustainability.
About the Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable
Sept. 25, 2020 at 11 a.m. ET
While efforts to protect and steward natural resources is essential to a climate-safe future, it is no longer enough. Far too often, resource use and development planning are determined by those in positions of power without truly considering the needs and desires of disadvantaged communities, despite claims of engagement and outreach. The pandemic has starkly revealed the gap between intention and reality, and how entrenched disparities and injustice have blocked access to safe, healthy and restorative homes, commons and other built environments for many.
How can we bring together the needs of people and the places they live so communities and people can thrive, where the civic commons maximizes human potential, and is nourishing, accessible and enriching for all? How can we leverage the combined strength of the environmental and justice movements, and create the space to fully understand the needs and desires of all communities? How can we build, improve and reimagine physical spaces not only to be equitable, just and engaging but to facilitate reckoning and healing from systemic oppression?
Join Southface Institute President Andrea Pinabell and a panel of women thought-leaders from around the globe, including:
Irene Balza, Project Manager, StreetPlans
Amanda Eichel, Executive Director, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
Bridget Marquis, Director, Reimagining the Civic Commons
Patricia L. Smith, President and CEO, The Funders Network
The panel takes place at 11 a.m. ET Sept. 25 and will include a robust dialogue about regenerative placemaking, climate-smart architecture, spatial justice and the supporting mechanisms that can increase the momentum toward equity and sustainability.
About Climate Week NYC
Climate Week NYC (Sept. 21-27, 2020) is biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition.
All events, as well as highlights from more than 350 events taking place across New York City and around the world, will be available to view from Climate Week NYC’s Facebook Watch page starting Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. You can also search the events program, save events to your schedule, and explore Climate Week NYC from your phone via free mobile phone apps. Learn more here.
