Baruch College's Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute host the Sustainability Practice Network's first panel discussion of 2011 on "Cities as Accelerators of Sustainable Development". Expert panelists parse out the factors that make cities and urban livelihoods sustainable and reflect on the short-term and long-term changes required to mainstream sustainable practices and policies, and discuss how cities can accelerate local and global sustainable development, resilience, and prosperity while adapting to the challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, and globalization.

Donald H. Schepers, Director of the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, makes the opening remarks. Jack S. Nyman, Director of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, moderates the discussion.

Panelists include:

Jennifer Ewing Thiel, Director, Tools & Technical Innovation, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA

Micah Kotch, Director of Operations, NYC ACRE at Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Ariella Maron, Deputy Commissioner, Division of Energy Management, NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services

Ernest Tollerson, Director, Environmental Sustainability & Compliance Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York State

Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association

Michael Black, Founder of Sustainability Practice Network, makes the closing remarks.

The event takes place on January 19, 2011 at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, Room 750.