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This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Welcome to the brooklyn public library. This is usually where i start. Please welcome jennifer. [applause] youre here to discuss her first book is a shame necessary. What may give you a sample of the biography. Do you just want to start in on the discussion when i do the biography . Im happy to start i am happy to start right in. Shes an assistant professor and works at the intersection of conservation and cooperation focusing on the Human Dimensions of lar...

Energy efficiency coordinating committee, the Small Business seat. I feel like this position and this seat and serving the committee could be in line with my personal and professional life in addition to the advocacy in my history being in the city for Small Businesses and affected communities. So my family has a corner store and building in San Francisco. I grew up there so ive been around the business since i was young and now im taking more of an ownership managerial role. We have equipment d...

For people of all races and incomes and races. When we lose families we are losing diversity. While diversity is a value for it in and of itself, the loss of diversity also threatens the following areas middle income jobs and workers, environment and sustainability, social integration, social capital and citizen engagement. Over the past two months my office has been working with the Mayors Office, the School District and a diverse dwruep group of stake holders to further specify what this counc...

Then we also included some language to specify that the board of supervisors, the board of education and superintendent may also recommend members to the mayor just to assure they were inclusive of who could recommend and who could not recommend. We felt this was a collaborative effort and wanted to provide this opportunity. As far as section 102. 5, the governments piece, the council will meet at least 3 times a fiscal year and we added that to the extent feasible that these meetings be spread ...

Taking more of an ownership managerial role. We have equipment dating back to the 1970s in our store, and this is a pretty common reality for a lot of old Sole Proprietor independent businesses in the city. So ive had to assess upgrades for that establishment on its own in addition to working with other grocers and i sit on the board of the Arab American Grocers Association so i have a lot of relationships with Small Businesses and weve had interface with the department of environment on several...

For people of all races and incomes and races. When we lose families we are losing diversity. While diversity is a value for it in and of itself, the loss of diversity also threatens the following areas middle income jobs and workers, environment and sustainability, social integration, social capital and citizen engagement. Over the past two months my office has been working with the Mayors Office, the School District and a diverse dwruep group of stake holders to further specify what this counc...

Brooklyn welcome. [applause] thank you for having me. Pull that close up to your face so we can hear you. I just noticed that the guilty planet blog this is the book about shame you have a career that draws you to these negative emotions and creating works around is that true . It is true. I think that there are reasons that well continue to draw negative emotions to especially for largescale problems involving the environment or Animal Welfare or labor abuses anything like that. I mean, when i ...

Centralizing these resources in a way that is accessible to people that are in their store all the time and dont really have the knowledge or access to look at the city programs. And so i feel like my specialty is in that area of being able to have some policy literacy and then communicate it to a larger constituency who often maybe trust those Informal Networks a little more than if it was proposed by a city entity. So thats my hope is to be able to bridge that conversation and that effort of S...

He has been sitting in a clinical, clerical position, even though hes a nurse specialist. Hes essentially doing no functions. Hes a Windowless Office, reporting to clerks who need, you know, something moved or carried around. When he has a masters degree and is going for his ph. D. , and he is on active duty, just this past weekend, in the reserves. They have now proposed on friday, he did contact the office of special counsel, back in august when he was first detailed. And they did propose disc...

Relieved primary surplus goes down and at the same time, the creditor community and International Institutions would not write off any part of your debt in a complete way or agree to any change in Interest Rate in the time way. This is such a radical proposal i didnt think about it myself. Our proposals are by comparison. If this is good to me, i can assure you im going to look at it firstly with this belief, and then a few minutes later, with glee. And satisfaction. We dont need that degree of ...