News
THEY AIN'T LION
July 11, 2011
 |
| Roarrr. Code Green Solutions recently hosted the NYC premier of National Geographic’s The Last Lions at the SoHo House. Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert (with Code Green Solutions managing director Chris Cayten and founder Stephen Rizzo) fielded questions from the audience of real estate owners and managers who came to watch the documentary about the dramatically declining wildlife population in Africa (where have all the wildebeests gone?), with discussions about finding solutions to the issue of the declining supply of “wildlife real estate.” Fifty years ago, more than 500,000 lions roamed the earth, in the '70s, just 200,000, and now only 20,000. The film is one piece of the Jouberts’Big Cats Initiative, which aims to stop lion population declines by 2015 and restore them to sustainable levels through conservation projects, education, economic incentives, and a global public awareness campaign. |
 |
| Among the attendees: Tiffany & Co Corporate Real Estate Services’Lawrence Palfini and his wife, Tiffany’s Alfred Maierle, Code Green Solution’s Gillian Sciaretta, and Ed Vizoskie, manager of building operations for 200 Fifth Ave. Stephen tells us that CodeGreen has seen the positive effects of land-use policies in all areas of the world, from the unspoiled Okavango Delta in Botswana to urban density in New York City (or as we've always called it "The Okavango Delta of the West"). |
