Sustainability topic of presentation March 5
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12:58 p.m., March 3, 2009----The University of Delaware's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy will open its 2009 spring colloquium series on contemporary issues in energy and environmental policy with a presentation Thursday, March 5, by Mark Alan Hughes, director of the Philadelphia Mayor's Office of Sustainability.

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Hughes, a senior adviser to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, will discuss the city's sustainability plans from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Ewing Room of the Perkins Student Center on Academy Street.

Hughes has contributed to the improvement of urban life as an academic and an activist. He joined the standing faculty at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, teaching land use planning, public management and antipoverty policy. He has also taught at Harvard's Kennedy School and Swarthmore's Honors Program.

Hughes has held non-resident senior fellow appointments at Brookings and the Urban Institute, served as a senior consultant to the Urban Poverty Program at the Ford Foundation, and served as the first vice president for policy development at Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia. He was a distinguished senior fellow of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2001, Hughes became an opinion columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News.

Hughes' early research on urban poverty played a prominent role in the scholarly and policy debates over the “underclass” during the late 1980s.

William Julius Wilson cited Hughes as his “most thoughtful critic” in Wilson's seminal 1988 Godkin Lectures at Harvard. As a policy developer, Hughes helped design and create the $15 million Bridges to Work demonstration for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also founded the Transitional Work Corporation, which was the nation's largest publicly financed jobs program under welfare reform and a model for a national program under consideration by Congress.

Lunch will be provided. Those who plan to attend RSVP to [bmaliner@udel.edu] or call (302) 831-8405.

The series is sponsored by the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, the Graduate Program in Energy and Environmental Policy and the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy.

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