Youth Forum
Using the goals articulated in the City of New York’s PlaNYC 2030, the Learn Green NYC event will use a World Café process to identify existing and develop new youth-led projects whose implementation will be charted on the Green Schools Green Map.
PlaNYC 2030:
In December 2006, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg challenged New Yorkers to generate ideas for achieving 10 key goals for the city’s sustainable future. New Yorkers in all five boroughs responded. The result was the most sweeping plan in the city’s modern history to make sustainable New York’s urban environment. Focusing on the five key dimensions of the city's environment - land, air, water, energy and transportation - the combined impact of the plan will not only help ensure a higher qualify of life for generations of New Yorkers to come, it will also contribute to a 30% reduction in the city’s global warming emissions. Find out more about PlaNYC 2030.
World Café:
As a conversational process, the World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims. Find out more about the World Café process.
Green Maps:
Later in 2008, an interactive online Green Schools Green Map will debut at at GreenMap.org. Today, there are over 400 locally-led Green Map projects in 50 countries that share an iconography, adaptable tools and methodologies. These practical perspective-changing maps chart local green living, nature and cultural sites, pathways and resources such as green businesses, community gardens, farmers markets, bike paths and solar sites. In New York City, in addition to the dozen citywide and themed editions published by Green Map System, 12 diverse schools and groups have already created campus and neighborhood Green Maps which, together with the outcomes of the Learn Green NYC event at the Baum Forum and projects that follow the event, will provide the base for the Green Schools Green Map.
Program
Using the goals articulated in the City of New York’s PlaNYC 2030, the Learn Green NYC event will use a World Café process to identify existing and develop new youth-led projects whose implementation will be charted on the Green Schools Green Map.
Opening - 30 Minutes
Welcome & Introduction – Hilary Baum
- What is Sustainability? – NYC Students enrolled in the Cloud Institute’s course: “Inventing the Future”
- PlaNYC 2030 – Laurie Kerr, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, Mayor’s Office of Operations (invited)
- Videos:
- PlaNYC 2030
- Personal Space Rediscovered: One Million More New Yorkers by 2030!
- Introduce Green Maps and mapmaking resources – Green Map staff
- Shoutout
Questions & Discussion Topics (to be further refined) - 90 Minutes
- What is our vision for the future?
- How can kids become ambassadors, carrying the vision into their homes, their communities, and to the Mayor’s office?
- What youth involved projects are already underway?
- What would make your school/organization better tomorrow? In 2030?
- How can your school/organization improve curriculum, facilities and purchasing?
- How can you improve your health, food, use of energy and resources for living, including transportation around the city.
- How can kids contribute to PlaNYC 2030?
- How can kids contribute to the Baum Forum and related issues?
- How can kids contribute to Green Schools Green Map?