C.W. Post Geography Professor to Receive Environmental Award

Dr. Scott Carlin, associate professor of geography at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, will receive the Award for Environmental Vision in Sustainable Development from the Long Island Progressive Coalition Saturday March 28, 2009 at its 30th anniversary luncheon.

The Long Island Progressive Coalition is a nonprofit, community-focused organization based out of Massapequa, dedicated to promoting sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic, racial and social justice.

As an accomplished environmental activist and geographer, Dr. Carlin has advocated sustainable development principles for the past 15 years. In 1995, Dr. Carlin completed his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University. From 1996 to 2004, Dr. Carlin was co-director of Long Island University's Institute for Sustainable Development. Dr. Carlin also co-directed Southampton College's Greenprint program, which advocated LEED construction standards, environmental literacy, wastewater management, recycling and renewable energy.

Dr. Carlin has been a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University since the fall of 2005. In 2007, Dr. Carlin founded the Long Island Climate Solutions Network and in 2008, he joined the Town of Southampton's "Sustainable Southampton" Advisory Committee. He is a senior editor with ClimateCaucus.Net, an outgrowth of the 2007 United Nations conference, "Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All." He also serves on the international advisory board for the Graduation Pledge Alliance, which encourages graduating high school and college students to lead lives of social and environmental responsibility.

Dr. Carlin has, in numerous ways, instilled environmental advocacy in his students at C.W. Post. In February, he took a group of C.W. Post students from his "Human Dimensions of Climate Change" course to Power Shift 2009 in Washington D.C., a national conference on global warming, to lobby Congress and meet with politicians.

Dr. Carlin is currently writing a book examining sustainability issues in suburbia.

Posted: March 19, 2009