Prof. Michael J. Widener: “Connecting Urban Food Retail to Supply Chains”

Online Event

Speaker: Professor Michael J. Widener, Department of Geography and Planning, cross-appointed to Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Title: “Connecting Urban Food Retail to Supply Chains” Date: Monday, October 19, 2020 Time: 16:00-17:00 EDT Location: Virtual - Register below Presented by: University of Toronto School of Cities Over the past three decades, the volume […]

José Holguín-Veras presents “Freight transportation policy and planning in the fight against climate change: The role of connected trucks, land use, and other tools nobody talks about”

Online via Zoom

The obvious changes in the climate—exemplified by former “hundred year weather events” taking place every other year—are adding tremendous urgency to efforts to reduce the emissions produced by mobile sources. In this context, reducing the freight transportation’s environmental footprint is an essential, though extremely hard to achieve, component of sustainability efforts. To a great extent, this […]