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One City/One Future

Past Project last updated April 6, 2009

Making Growth Work for All New Yorkers

One City/One Future is the product of four years of collaboration by civic leaders, neighborhood advocates, community development organizations, labor unions, affordable housing groups, environmentalists, immigrant advocates, and other stakeholders to make economic development work for all New Yorkers.

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Green Healthcare Forum - Green Operations and Maintenance and Staff Education

Event on October 11, 2011

The Green Healthcare Forum will bring together leaders and healthcare professionals to discuss how healthcare facilities in New York City can improve energy efficiency, reduce operating costs, and contribute to a healthier and more sustainable environment. There will be four sessions in the series from August 2011 to January 2012. The goal is to educate and inform CEOs and facilities managers of medical groups, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities in the New York City area on issues and challenges in sustainability.

Event Details

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Pratt Manhattan. 144 W. 14th Street, Room 213

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Congestion Pricing

Testimony last updated October 31, 2007

Testimony on Congestion Pricing and Social and Environmental Justice

Joan Byron
Director, Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiative
Pratt Center for Community Development
October 31, 2007

My name is Joan Byron; I direct the Sustainabilty and Environmental Justice Initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development. For 45 years, the Pratt Center has supported community-based organizations all over New York City working for social, economic, and environmental justice, and I am especially proud of the work we've done with Bronx organizations who are in the forefront of those movements -- Nos Quedamos, the Point, Sustainable South Bronx, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and more.

That's why we support congestion pricing -- because it is socially and economically progressive, as well as a step toward environmental justice.

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Success in Staten Island, Block by Block

News last updated December 12, 2011

On December 8, 2011 Council Member Debi Rose, local community organizations and representatives from the Pratt Center for Community Development gathered at a special forum spotlighting the strides that Staten Island is making toward energy efficiency through the Retrofit NYC Block by Block program. The forum featured a special presentation by students from Wagner College on their research into ways to support communities getting involved in retrofitting at a mass scale.

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Hunts Point Rezoning

Testimony last updated June 17, 2008

Testimony to the City Council Committee on Zoning and Franchises Special Hunts Point District, Bronx (C080248ZMX)

Joan Byron
Director, Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiative
Pratt Center for Community Development
June 17, 2008

My name is Joan Byron; I am the Director of the Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiative of the Pratt Center for Community and Environmental Development. The Pratt Center works for a more just, equitable, and sustainable city for all New Yorkers, by empowering communities to plan for and realize their futures. We are especially proud to have supported the work of Hunts Point and other South Bronx organizations since the early 1990s in the many battles they have fought for environmental justice; Hunts Point bears more than its share of the burdens of the infrastructure and land uses that make New York City's density and vitality possible, to the daily cost of the people who live, work, and breathe in the shadow of highways, electric power plants, sewage treatment and sludge pelletization facilities, and dozens of waste transfer stations and waste handling facilities.

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Greening From The Ground Up: A Sustainability Leadership Conference

Event on March 16, 2012

Drawing from the innovative Brooklyn Greens Initiative and other neighborhood sustainability initiatives, Greening from the Ground Up Conference will showcase successes, make tools available and share strategies among community based organizations to harness collective action in the effort to make neighborhoods more environmentially friendly.   

Event Details

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 9:00am
Pratt Institute - Higgins Hall, 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn

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Pratt Center eNews - Fall 2007

News last updated November 1, 2007

In this Issue:

  • What Banh Mi and Child Care Have in Common
  • Elena Conte: Community Action and Citywide Change
  • Downtown Brooklyn Reassessed
  • Campus Connection: A Sustainable Pratt Institute
  • Preservation and Planning: The Next Generation
  • Cypress Hills Breaks Ground
  • Redefining ReDefining Economic Development
  • Change a Light, Change the World
  • Save the Date: Pratt Center Gala, February 26, 2008

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Pratt Center's Art, Culture and Sustainability Project

News last updated January 26, 2012

In the spring of 2011, Pratt Center for Community Development launched a two-year program designed to connect the arts and artists with our multi-layered work, helping New York City communities to become more environmentally sustainable. Supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Cultural Innovation Fund, the Center has partnered with academic and community organizations to produce innovative culture, arts, media and organizing strategies that seek to engage neighborhood residents and artists to promote sustainable, environmental action. This project is a part of Pratt Center’s broader goal to develop replicable models that will aid urban communities’ efforts to become environmentally sustainable -- intensive work we are doing in partnership with nine different community organizations in all five boroughs of NYC.

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