The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Lisa Morano, a professor of biology and microbiology and director of the Center for Urban Agriculture and Sustainability. The panel will include Ana Bueno, an environmental reporter at Univision 45; Jaime González, the community and equitable conservation programs director at The Nature Conservancy in Texas; Naomi Kuo, an artist-in-residence at the Asia Society Texas Center, and Steve Stelzer, the program director at Green Building Resource Center’s Houston Permitting Center.
These experts will address global concerns about sustainability on a local level, provide regional solutions, and explain how the community can take action. The discussion will focus on the three pillars of sustainability: environmental health, economic health, and social equity.
“The idea of sustainability is that we create a system in which all of these things can work together. We have an environment that’s healthy, an economic system that’s healthy, and we have people that are healthy who are in it,” Morano said. “You want to create a system where future generations have the same opportunities and the same health of their planet as we have today.”
