Achieving Environmental Equity: Community Roundtable Event

Urban Sustainability and Equity Center (USEC) invites members of the Richmond community to participate in this roundtable event and learn about our recent research findings related to local heat island patterns in the City of Richmond.

Over the past several months, our organization has developed a dynamic spatial analysis of urban heat island effect within the Richmond metropolitan region. At this event, we will be sharing our preliminary research findings, as well as our recommendations for local mitigation strategies.

Research presentation will be followed by a panel on environmental equity co-moderated with Giles Harnsberger of Groundwork RVA. Panelists include local and national leaders in the field of sustainability:

• Andrea Almond, PLA, ASLA
  3north, City of Richmond Urban Design Committee and Urban Forestry Commission (past)
• Art Burton
  Kinfolks Community
• Duron Chavis
  Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
• Dr. Hans-Peter Plag
  ODU Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute (MARI) 
• John Shuck
  East End Cemetary Restoration Project

Please contact Kaitlin Savage (kaitlin@usec-virginia.org) with any questions related to our event. Look forward to seeing you there!