Green Infrastructure & Climate Change
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The Finale of our “Climate Action Series” is co-presented by Transition Town Port Washington and Landmark on Main Street. This event will be live streamed on Zoom. No in-person attendance will be available.
Climate change impacts more than sea-level rise and coastal flooding in low-lying areas worldwide. Increased rain events and excessive heat waves are increasingly frequent and cause environmental and social risks. Two important ways to both lower carbon emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change is through green transportation and land use.
This Climate Action Series finale features Joerg Theimann-Linden, a Sustainable Urban Mobility Advisor specialized in creating large-scale cycling & walking plans for Germany, and Tricia Martin, a Landscape architect who led the green infrastructure and resiliency guidelines for the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and The Lower East Side Community Garden Resiliency Feasibility study for Rising Green. Both guests shall elaborate on how green transportation and infrastructure can mitigate the effects of climate change within our coastal communities. Discussion and Q & A moderated by Margaret Galbraith, President of Transition Town Port Washington.
Based in Bonn, Germany, Joerg Thiemann-Linden has worked as a Sustainable Urban Mobility Advisor specializing in creating large-scale cycling and walking plans for over thirty years. Through his work with the German Institute for Urban Affairs, Berlin, he helped prepare a new "National Cycling Plan 2020" for Germany on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transportation. Joerg also wrote the official technical guidelines on cycling facilities for the German Road and Transport Research Association. He is a member of the professional association of German urban planners as well as other transport advocacy groups, often speaking about Shared Space Street design all over Europe. In 2016, Joerg became a board member of DEPOMM, the independent platform for mobility management in Germany, responsible for nationwide and European annual conferences on mobility management. As a lecturer, for integrated urban and transport planning he is involved in education of future planners at universities in Germany.
Tricia Martin is an Associate Principal at Local Office Landscape and Urban Design, where she leads complex, urban projects ranging in scale from the region to a small lot. Before coming to LOCAL, Tricia led the green infrastructure and resiliency guidelines for the Brooklyn Greenway and the award-winning Resiliency Feasibility Study for the Gardens Rising project in Lower Manhattan. Tricia has taught urban design at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University and landscape architecture studios at City College of New York. She is regularly asked to speak about green infrastructure and landscape architecture issues and is also a past president of the American Society of Landscape Architects-NY Chapter.
The Conversations from Main Street Climate Action Series is co-presented with Landmark on Main Street with the goal of introducing community-centered climate solutions while also promoting individual action. Small changes to our daily routines can have lasting and impact on our environment and future. Watch this space for more info & sign-up links for these programs.
