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Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Mulchfest 2015

The Salt Lot 2 Second Avenue , Brooklyn, NY, United States

Help the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!

Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.

Boat Club Book Club

North Brooklyn Boat Club 49 Ash Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Join other community members around the fire to discuss the book of the month. Food and drink is encouraged. Book club meetings take place on…

Free

Oculus Book Talk: Urban Alchemy

The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place , New York, New York, United States

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will present Urban Alchemy, Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities, published by New Village Press. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with William Morrish on the intersections of public health and urbanism.

Free – $10.00

Sustainability and the Startup

Interface NYC Showroom 330 Fifth Avenue (the corner of 5th Ave and 33rd Street) 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States

This event will feature four perspectives from leaders in this space, on what it’s like being at a startup in the sustainability community, where they see opportunities and challenges, and how they see this community helping to advance sustainability goals.

$12

A Panel Discussion and Book Signing: The Landscape of Fracking in New York; What’s Changed and What Hasn’t.

BookCourt 163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

The announcement that DEC will prohibit fracking in NYS may lead some to believe that now we’re “safe.” However, pipelines, compressor stations, storage caverns and LNG facilities have been and remain the current threat. “The Real Cost of Fracking” authors, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, will demonstrate why such infrastructure may actually be WORSE than drilling in its health impacts on humans, animals, and our food shed.

Free

Trash: New York City’s Battle with Garbage

Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

This class will trace New York City's protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.

Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!

$10

New York City Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party

15th Street Quaker Meetinghouse 15 Rutherford Place (between 2nd and 3rd Aves), New York, NY, United States

Transition is a community organizing response to climate change, resource depletion and financial instability. There are 1,100+ Transition groups in 44 countries and over 150 initiatives in the US.

All are welcome to the NYC Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party! Be part of the NYC neighborhood-specific resilience building conversation: Fun, food from around the world and purposeful conversation.

Free

Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook Community Farms 580 Columbia Street, Brooklyn

Join Added Value, the Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn to compost weekly on Fridays from 9:00am to noon and Saturdays from 10:30am to 1:00pm.

Free

Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

The Brainery in Prospect Heights 190 Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

With the Environmental Protection Agency's designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.

But what is a Superfund exactly?

Come learn at this evening class offered at the Brooklyn Brainery!

$10

Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution

Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work Auditorium 2180 Third Ave at 119th Street , New York, NY, United States

Hunter College’s East Harlem Art Gallery and CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Presents: Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution. A program in conjunction with the exhibition Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape, photos by Alejandro Durán.

Free

Explore Dead Horse Bay, New York’s Best Kept Secret

Floyd Bennett Field Ranger Station Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Hike the trails and shoreline of Dead Horse Bay with Mickey Maxwell Cohen, American Littoral Society naturalist, author of Discovering the Trails of Dead Horse Bay.

Explore the nature and fascinating history of this little known area!

Free

Book Launch: Sustainability Policy – Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy

Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center, Room 1501 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University present a book launch, Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy. Authors Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, and Alison Miller will be discussing their new book, published by Jossey-Bass in January 2015.

Free