The last in the Earth Month Lecture Series will take place on, appropriately, Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The virtual presentation begins at 6:30pm, and is free and open to the public.

Registration is required via the webinar link: HERE.

Dr. Neil Maher, who has spoken both virtually and in-person at SUNY Orange on various topics, returns to compare concepts and policies with historical perspective on two New Deals: the original New Deal of the Great Depression era and the Green New Deal of today. In his lecture, Green New Deal Initiatives: The Civilian Climate Corps, he specifically focuses on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) of the New Deal as being a guide in President Joe Biden’s new proposals including the Civilian Climate Corps.

Dr. Maher has devoted a great deal of research to the CCC having written a book on the subject, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement.

When he compares the New Deal with the Green New Deal (GND), he will demonstrate how the two multi-faceted programs differ even though both concern the creation of jobs and the natural environment.

As Earth Day has evolved over the years, so, too, the Green New Deal takes the New Deal as a basis and develops its concepts in consideration of the twenty-first century.

Engineers, architects, and municipal officials are eligible for one PDH-CEU for attendance.
Certificates will be issued upon completion of lecture questions. After registering for the webinar, further register for the PDH-CEU by emailing cultural@sunyorange.edu with “for PDH-CEU” in the subject line.

This event is co-sponsored by SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs and SUNY Orange Sustainability. Information may be acquired by contacting cultural@sunyorange.edu or Kirsten.gabrielsen@sunyorange.edu

Neil Maher holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD in US History from NYU. He has been the recipient of 21 fellowships and grants from 1994 to 2019, including a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. In addition, he has received seven awards from 2006 to 2019 including the Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence from NJIT-Rutgers University, Newark, where he is a Professor & Master Teacher in the Federated History Department. In addition to his book on the CCC, he authored Apollo in the Age of Aquarius and his working on The Urban Crisis as Environmental Injustice.