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CIEDM Event on Downtown Preservation & Building Safety
This subject event include the following activities:
1. In response to National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) call, send in an email to representives of my congressional district urging Congressional support for the Creating American Prosperity through Preservation (CAPP) Act, a legislation that would create jobs and promote vibrant communities. The email was send May 14, the 1st day of the National Bike to Work Week.
2. A workshop on the subject of Preservation & Building Safety programed to serve following 2 objectives:
a. The interest of the workshop participants -- a 22 person delegation of Tianjin Urban Planning & Design Institute, Tianjin, China -- to understand the planning & development of downtowns in the US, including approaches for preservation of historic districts & commerical streets, adaptive reuse of existing old buildings, urban parks, cultural facilities & transit centers.
b. Raise participant's awareness of May as the National Preservation Month, National Building Safety Month, and National Bike Month as called, respectively, by NTHP, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and League of American Bicyclists.
The workshop will take place from 10 am to 12 noon on Thursday May 17, the day for celebrate Bike to Work Day in Los Angeles County. The program include a visit to Downtown Region of the Community Redevelopment Agency, City of Los Angeles, and a walking tour of various facilities & projects pertaining the subjects of preservation, building safety & bike to work in downtown LA.
3. Attend the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI) Tenth Annual Community Forum.
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Participate in Beautification Acts:Arcadia Beautiful Awards
参與市容美化活動：2012亞卡迪亞美化獎
亞凱迪亞美化委員會副主席黃鐵嶼博士
在美國許多大大小小的城鎮都有各類不同美化市容的做法，其中以邀請並獎勵市民商家們一同來打理整修其建築物、綠化修剪其庭院為常用的方法。獎勵通常為在地方議會上，正式颁予獎奘或可插在院子裡的獲獎標誌，以褒揚獲獎者的美化市容的努力，并作為社區典範。此公開可见的標誌不謹可與鄰里們分享这份殊榮，也能带動美化及愛護家園和社區的風氣。這種市民參與的做法不僅美化了城市，並因民眾的參與強化了市民對當地社區的榮譽及歸屬感，會讓市民們能進一步愛護自己的社區、認同自己生活的城市。整體環境美化的結果對市民商家個人言也有好處，因它對居家的清潔健康及的房地產的價值都有助益。
亞市為促進市容美化已連續舉辦亞凱迪亞美化獎（Arcadia Beautiful Awards）多年，亞凱迪亞美化委員會為市府負責推廣參與及評鑑的市民單位。今年美化委員會將如往年一樣辦理此美化獎活動，作為亞凱迪亞美化委員及副主席多年，我鼓勵全市市民和商家參與這項活動。作為一位華裔委員，我每年特別鼓勵我們華裔同胞參與。在過去3年中我看到主動參與此公共活動的華裔居民雖有增加但仍然不踴躍, 因而在此再次鼓勵本市華裔居民積極報名參加此活動。
報名的方法為推薦及自薦，請及時為你的鄰居，朋友或自己到市府經理辦公室報名，或將簡單的報名表郵寄至電子郵箱cschacatano@ci.arcadia.ca.us。報名所需提供資料應包括：產業詳細地址、提名人姓名和電話號碼。報名的截止日期為5月21日星期一，美化委員會將在最後期限以後及時進行選評，委員們將依據報名地址前去觀察評分，共同選出十多個獎。市議會預定將與於6月19日頒獎，獲獎者將獲得一個榮譽標誌。如您對要報名參加比賽，請確保在5月24日當天早上9時前將您的房子和前院整理完畢，保持得整齊清潔美觀。 -
CIEDM Meetup on Air Quality, Cycling, Climate & Preserva
The meetup is to celebrate and spread the message of a several related environmental events in May calling public awareness and actions on air quality, bicycling, impacts of climate changes, and heritage preservation.
May is kicked off by the Air Quality Awareness Week, April 30 - May 4, a program of EPA's AirNow, followed by the Climate Impacts Day on May 5, an international event sponsored by grassroot group 350.org/connectdots.org. In the US, May is the National Preservation Month, a National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) program, and May 1 is the Heritage Preservation's MayDay 2012, with climate impacts in mind, themed as Preparedness Protects Our Heritage.
In the US, May is also the National Bike Month, May 9 is the 1st National Bike to School Day, May 14-18 is the National Bike to Work Week & May 18 is the Bike to Work Day. To participate in the national air quality and bike events, locally in Los Angeles, the US metropolitan region with the worst air quality on ozone, South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) starts its program of 2012 Mow Down Air Pollution Lawn Mower Exchange on Wednesday May 2, LA Metro celebrates Bike Week LA in the week of May 14. In Arcadia where I currently serve as a Arcadia Beautiful Commissioner, we'll have Arcadia Community Bike Ride on Saturday May 5, the Climate Impacts Day..
The by-invitation only meetup is scheduled in the late afternoon on Friday May 4. In the meetup, as a longterm activist of 350.org, a member of NTHP, a menber of Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals, a member of International Walk to School in the USA & a member of the AQMD's Chinese-American Business & Community Leaders Working Group, I shared with our guests about the origins & intends of those above-mentioned events and the following:
1.City of Los Angeles' "open street" efforts on Sunday April 15 - LA's 4th CicLAvia. About 100,000 people walked, biked & enjoyed 10 car-free miles of Los Angeles streets.
2.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently announced plans for a privately funded and operated bike sharing program that would place 4,000 bikes at 400 stations in downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Playa del Rey, Westwood and Venice Beach over the next two years. The objective is to start a program of encouraging commuter biking that eventually reduce traffic jam.
On Wednesday May 9, the 1st Bike to School Day, we participate in the Sierra Club's Celebrate National Bike Month with Safer Communities by sending a message to our local representatives in Congress to let them know that we need them to work with federal and state transportation officials for safer communities with more biking options & facilities.
On Saturday May 12, we comment on the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arrested three men for the burglaries of around 50 bicycles all over Souther California. The action is very timely in this National Bike Month. Hope the victims can soon get their bikes back and join members of cycling community to celebrate the the National Bike to Work Week during May 14-18, and the National Bike Day on this coming Friday, May 18.
Get on bikes, get new mowers, go for health air for breath & resillent earth for safety! -
ISERI - CIEDM Event on Earth Day & Arbor Day 2012
To serve as a local event participanting in the National EE Week sponsored by National Environmental Education Foundation, in Mobilize the Earth by Earth Day Network and in the Climate Impacts Day by 350.org, CIEDM along ISERI holds the subject event during the weeks of April 15-28. The event includes 2 broadcasting interviews on the subject of Earth Day for the Across the Ocean program, KWRM 1370 AM. The interviews are on April 16 & 19 at EDI Media and are aired on April 19 & 20 . The event also includes CIEDM - ISERI 8th Annual Workshop on Earth Day & Arbor Day 2012 taken places on Thursady April 19. Participants include 12 visitors mainly a group from the International Buddhist Progress Society in Hancienda Heights. The workshop is held at 2-4:30pm at Arcadia EcoHome, Arcadia, and the program include:
(1) a briefing by Dr. Edward Huang 黄铁屿 on the National EE Week (4/15-4/21), California Native Plant Week (4/15-4/21), Earth Week (4/16-4/22), Earth Day (4/22), National Arbor Day (4/27), and Climate Impacts Day (5/5)
(2) a tour led by Dr.Huang of Arcadia EcoHome, a rated green building with its yard been certified as a Wildlife Habitat, Pollinator Garden & Ocean Friendly Garden
(3) a Q&A session followed by the conclusion remarks from participants.
On Earth Day, Sunday April 22, we signed up Arcadia EcoHome to renew the Southern California Edison's Summer Discount Plan, signed the HoneyLove.org's petition for legalizing urban beekeeping in Los Angeles, and wrote a comment on the environmental & economic impacts of the LA Riot occured in April 29, 1992.
On April 25, we pledged to US Environmental Protection Agency's "Pick 5 for the Environment" to continue our commitment to sustainable development.
On April 26, we participated in the USGBC's Municipal Green Building Conference& Expo at Southern California Gas Compamny's Energy Center in Downey, California. Later at Arcadia EcoHome :I was interviewed by World Journal's reporter on the subject of solar energy applications.
On Friday April 27, the National Arbor Day, at Arcadia EcoHome we transplant 2 papaya trees from the solar green house to the yard, and submit scholarship applications for job training in recycling and resource management so as to expand our knowledge & skills in this field. -
ISERI-CIEDM Workshop on World Environment & Ocean Days 2
CIEDM - ISERI 2nd Annual Workshop on World Environment Day & World Ocean Days will be held on Sunday June 3, 2012 at Arcadia EcoHome, Arcadia, California. The workshop aims to raise public awareness of and actions on protecting instead of polluting our environment and ocean. It will be an all-day event with Dr. Edward Huang 黄铁屿 & other CIEDM personnel cleaning up the yard and seting up the outdoor seating in the morning & the community workshop in the afternoon. Participants will include mainly the youth group of the International Buddhist Progress Society (Xilai Temple) in Hancienda Heights. This is the 2nd youth group from the Temple, the first one attended a CIEDM wrokshop at Arcadia EcoHome in Nov. 2007. The workshop is scheduled at 2-4:30pm, and the program include:
(1) a briefing by Dr. Edward Huang 黄铁屿 on the following five special and environmentally related days: the 2012 National Trial Day on Saturday June 2, World Environment Day on Tuesday June 5, World Ocean Day on Friday June 8, National Get Outdoors Day on Saturday June 9, and National Daylight Appreciation Day on June 20. He will also refers to June being the Great Outdoors Month and June 2-10 being the National Get Outdoors Week when all the above 4 days are in.
(2) a tour led by Dr.Huang of Arcadia EcoHome, a rated green building with its yard been certified as a Wildlife Habitat, Pollinator Garden & Ocean Friendly Garden.
(3) a Q&A session, followed by the conclusion remarks from participants and group photos.
(4) a voluntary street & sidewalk cleaning around the intersection of 8th Avcenue and Camino Grove so as to reduce the stormwater runoff impacts of the neighborhood on our environment and ocean. -
ISERI - CIEDM Action on Garden and Ocean Clean Up
April is the National Garden Month, in respond to the call for a Community Green Up Day to clean up gardens by the National Gardening Association, the sponsor of the Month, ISERI and CIEDM selects April 6 as the Green Up Day. It is not only for the purpose to serve as a local event to celebrate the National Garden Month, but also to respond to the 28th Annual National Week of the Ocean from April 1 to April 7 as well as the National Walk to Work Day on April 6. On the Green Up Day, we will clean up the street in front of Arcadia EcoHome and the yard around the EcoHome, a Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Garden, so as to reduce the impact of urban runoff to the ocean. The same event will also raise community awareness of April 6 being the National Walk to Work Day and call for walk/bike/bus/carpooling to work instead of drive alone. The reduction of use cars, mean less powders resulted from car tires running over the road surface, also help improve the water quality in the ocean. In the afternoon, Dr. Edward Huang 黄铁屿, CIEDM Principal, will host a ZWTV crew to film the garden for a special edition on Earth Day. In addition, on April 4 we signed a NRDC letter to Los Angeles County Regional Water Quality Control Board that tells officials to keep toxic runoff pollution out of our beach waters, and a petition prepared by the Center for Biological Diversity to President Obama and EPA for protecting our coastal ecosystems and communities from ocean acidification.
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My Lecturing Journey in China
2012 中国访学旅程，2012/2-3：
旅程讲学主题：Sustainable development with green and blue urbanism/regionalism
获华侨大学聘为客座教授在厦门校区4周为建筑学院提供4场可持续性开发系列专题讲座、一门研究生/高年级本科生的短期专业课程“美国绿城市主义”、共同辅导一五年级毕业设计、多场座谈会。发起2012-3-12植树节活动，动员学生于3-12植树节在校园内植树造林。另在华大公共管理学院、华大土木工程学院“土木年华”系列讲座、福州大学建筑学院、集美大学美术学院、厦门大学环境与生态学院、厦大建筑与土木工程学院、沈阳大学建筑工程学院、沈阳建筑大学建筑与规划学院、大连华商研究院、辽宁中医药大学大连校区、山西农业大学园艺学院、河南农业大学林学院、中原工学院能源与环境学院、郑州大学公共管理学院研究生“名师名家讲坛”、武汉科技大学城市建设学院、武汉理工大学土木工程与建筑学院、华中科技大学建筑与城市规划学院、华科大公管学院MPA、安徽农业大学经济管理学院、安农林学与园林学院、湖南农业大学资源环境学院、湖农园艺园林学院、湖南大学建筑学院、华南师范大学地理科学学院、中山大学地理科学与规划学院珠海校区等访问/讲学，在湘粤地区学校动员学生于3-31参与地球时熄灯活动，并获下列学校续聘及新聘为客座教授：
武汉理工大学
郑州大学
中原工学院
安徽农业大学
湖南大学建筑学院
山西农业大学园艺学院
沈阳大学
沈阳建筑大学
华侨大学
植树节活动
This event is a part of CIEDM objective to promote sustainable development with green and blue urbanism/regionalism in my lecturing journey in China. As a Visiting Professor of Huaqiao University, in my first seminar and lecture on Feb 21 & 22 I reminded the students about the secial environmental day, proposed to engage a tree planting project, and received good response to my initiative. In the morning of Monday March 12, the Arbor Day in China, coordinated by the 4th year students in urban planning, a group of student volunteers in the College of Architecture, planted a cluster of street trees in the campus. Students followed my suggestion to engage public outreach for participation & education purposes and set up an Adopt-A-Tree program for taking care of the new trees by students. -
Feed back on the World Wetlands Day Workshop
Hey Dr. Huang!
Here are the pictures! There's another one coming because they're pretty large. If you need anything else, let me know.
I'd also like to say, thank you so much for giving us this opportunity! My friends (and their parents) absolutely LOVED it, they're really excited about bringing more people into this movement and seeing how cool being green can be.
Angela Bai -
CIEDM-ISERI Workshop on World Wetlands Day & Groundhog D
Event Anouncement
Objectives
Thursday, 2 Feburary 2012 is the World Wetlands Day, proclamed by the United Nations, and the Groundhog Day, a day to celebrate Phil, a Punxsutawney groundhog, who forcasts weather for humans. In respond to the UN's call for world wide supports for protecting wetlands with the 2012 theme to promote sustainable development of toursim and the US tradition of celebration of Phil's services, CIEDM & ISERI will voluntarily host the subject workshop to promote public awareness of & actions for the special environmental days.
Date
Sunday, 29 Januray 2012
Venue
Arcadia EcoHome, Arcadia, California. It is a Build It Green rated green building with a Victory Garden, an organic orchard & vegetable garden. The Garden is also certified as a Wildlife Habitat, Pollinator Garden and Ocean Friendly Garden that supply healthy foods year round to pollinators and wildlifes.
Transportation
To save gas, $ and reduce carbon footprint, please come by bike, carpool, hybrid, or transit (MTA #264 & Foothill #494 bus stops are in walking distance to Arcadia EcoHome).
Admission
Free
Sponsors
- California Institute of Environmental Design & Management
- International Scholars and Entrepreneurs Research Institute
Participants (seating capacity 25)
- San Marino High School's Green Club
- Other guests, by registration & invitation only
Actions Taken
- Signed on January 19 with the Center for Biological Diversity's letter to tell President Obama: No more risky drilling in our oceans.
- Signed on January 25 with the Endangered Species Coliation's letter to tell the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: Say NO to New Arctic and Gulf Drilling in Endangered Species Habitat & Safeguard Species from Offshore Oil.
- Signed on January 27 with the NRDC letter to tell the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: Protect our oceans from harmful offshore drilling, keep the Arctic off limits to drilling and not to increase drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Program
2:00pm - Opening remarks by Dr. Edward Huang 黄铁屿 and Angela Bai, President of San Marino High School's Green Club
2:10pm - Presentations: SMHS Green Club member Emily Thai on the subject of Groundhog Day and Max Ibrahimzade on World Wetlands Day
2:20pm - Introudction to Arcadia EcoHome by Dr. Huang
2:30pm - Guided tour of the property by Dr. Huang. Please be prepared to take off shoes as entering the house
4:00pm - Q&A
4:10pm - Conclusion remark by Angela Bai
4:15pm - Group photo session by SMHS Green Club photographer
4:30pm - Adjourn -
CIEDM-ISERI Party on Changing the Way We Eat - Eating Smart
Event Anouncement
Objectives
Today, 16 January 2012, is a US natioanl holiday, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Services. It is also the day when the United Nations officially launchs the campaign of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. In addition, a number of groups are calling the nationwide days of action to campaign a consititutional amendment for limiting the corportion's spending on politics. In respond to the call for campaign, Dr. King's call for community services and the UN's call for world wide supports for sustainable energy consumption, ISERI & CIEDM will voluntarily host the subject community education event in 2012.
Description
It is a home party to celebrate the Lunar Year of Dragon, a viewing party to watch a webcast titled Changing the Way We Eat. The webcast is a part of TEDxManhattan's national event, and ISERI with CIEDM is serving as an independent local event sponsor to raise community awareness of the need for sustainable food and farming that significantly affect the energy uses. It is also an organizing party to raize community awareness of a national day of actions to push back against the corporate takeover of our democracy, especially on food safety and nutrition information. 21 January 2012 is the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which allows unlimited corporate spending in elections. The food industry has used its political clout in Congress to slow progress on food safety or nutrition questions. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has, with dozens of other health, environmental, political reform and consumer organizations, has signed the United for The People campaign aiming at toppling the Supreme Court’s ruling that has watered down the federal nutrition standards for school foods. We support the campaign because there is too much industrial money in food politics, and the pary will be a part of national wide parties for the campaign.
Actions Taken
- Signed CSPI letter to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama today to encourage the Administration to finalize and release food marketing guidelines.
- Signed to support EWG's Just Label It campaign today and signed the Center for Food Safety's petition to the FDA demanding that genetically engineered foods are labeled.
- Signed the Change.org's letter to tell the FDA: Set arsenic limits in fruit juice to protect kids
- Singed on January 18 with NRDC and Rainforest Action Network letters to thank President Obama for rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
- Signed up on January 18 with 350.org to support its action in DC on January 24 for blowing the whistle on Big Oil corruption in Congress.
Date
Saturday 21 Januray 2012, the day before Chinese New Year Eve.
Venue
Arcadia EcoHome, Arcadia, California. It is a certified green building with a Victory Garden, a member of the Victory Garden Foundation, an organic orchard & vegetable garden. The Garden is also certified as a Wildlife Habitat, Pollinator Garden and Ocean Friendly Garden that supply healthy foods year round to pollinators and wildlifes.
Sponsors
- California Institute of Environmental Design & Management
- International Scholars and Entrepreneurs Research Institute
Guests
By invitation only
Program
1:30pm -- Hand-on work at Arcadia EcoHome Victory Garden
3:30pm -- Reviewing progress on collection of environmental/garden art projects
4:00pm -- Briefing the United for The People campaign
4:15pm -- Viewing TEDxManhattan webcast titled Changing the Way We Eat
6:00pm -- Serving vegetarian dinner & fresh fruits from the Garden
8:00pm -- Adjourn
请等待...
