Wednesday, September 5, 2:00-3:00pm ET. Join EPA’s Office of Sustainable Communities to discuss the Agency’s voluntary school siting guidelines, which can help local school districts and community members evaluate environmental factors to make the best possible school siting decisions.
- The presentation will focus on how the location of a school affects how its students get to it, and how school siting and design influence traffic congestion, air pollution, school transportation budgets, and children’s health and obesity. Presenter Tim Torma is Deputy Director of EPA’s Office of Sustainable Communities. This presentation is cosponsored by the US Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools Program.
- No pre-registration is required. Join online here and call 1-888-850-4523, participant passcode: 719661. This conference has a maximum audio capacity of 299 callers.
Thursday, September 6, 1:00-2:30pm ET. Building Sustainable Communities through Environmental Justice Strategies Register here.
- Hosted by the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California, this webinar will define EJ and its importance in building sustainable communities, introduce tools for measuring EJ impacts, outline best practices for engaging marginalized communities in planning processes and policy development, and discuss recent climate justice efforts. Join us for an engaging webinar that will connect the dots – between research, metrics, community organizing and policymaking – and offer strategies for building environmentally just communities.