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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sustainable Mega-Cities: Mexico City's "Plan Verde"
<P class=p><B>Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.</B><BR>Piper Auditorium,
Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street<BR><BR><B>Marcelo
Ebrard</B>, Mayor of Mexico City<BR><BR>Marcelo Ebrard, who has served as head
of the government for Mexico’s Federal District since 2006, will discuss “Plan
Verde,” which seeks to transform the bustling capital city infamous for its
traffic and smog into a healthy, more livable city via ambitious measures in
seven key areas: land conservation, public space, water, mobility, air, waste
and climate change and energy.<BR><BR><I>Cosponsored by the Rappaport Institute
for Greater Boston, Harvard Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resources
Program, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Harvard
University Center for the Environment, and Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center
for Latin American Studies.</I></P>
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<P class=p> </FONT><FONT size=2>---<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>Loie
Hayes<BR>C<SPAN class=839115813-14062007>oordinator, Boston Climate Action
Network</SPAN><BR>Roxbury MA 02120<BR>617-278-1885</FONT></P></DIV>
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