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Online Event Discusses the Role of Education in Building Resilient Cities

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 On December 9, the Consulate General of Denmark in New York and the Earth Institute’s Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) co-hosted an online event as part of their Climate Storytelling Partnership series on Reimagining the City for 21st Century. The discussion focused on the role of education in building resilient cities. It was moderated by Radhika Iyengar, CSD’s director of education, and Haein Shin, CSD’s education technical adviser. The panelists included Thomas Kock, founder of Werk Architects, Professor CB Bhattacharaya of Pittsburg University and Jaimie Cloud, founder of Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education. Thomas Kock offered an architectural lens for people-driven design of cities that facilitates togetherness and physical coming together of people and communities. Since and after COVID-19, Professor CB Bhattacharaya suggested taking ownership of sustainability issues and making sustainability central to education (similar to ideas he presented in his book, Sma
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Office of Student Life offers free devices to protect understudies

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  Understudies are reacting to a proposal from The Ohio State University to build their home security in the grounds region. The Office of Student Life's Off-Campus and Commuter Student Services underpins off-grounds understudies with free security gadgets, including window and entryway cautions and light clocks. An email suggestion to understudies this end of the week earned in excess of 500 solicitations for the administration. "It is accessible for all understudies at Ohio State despite the fact that we principally focus on the off-grounds populace, and we've been doing this for more than 10 years presently," said Rachel DeMooy, program supervisor for Off-Campus and Commuter Student Services. DeMooy said home thefts are frequently violations of chance, and discouragement assumes a major part in forestalling them. She said a light clock for indoor lights can persuade crooks that a house is involved. The clock can turn inside lights on and off for the duration of the
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