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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

The Field of Sustainable Finance: Foundations and Future Growth

The Columbia Club, James Madison Room, 2nd Floor 15 W. 43rd St., New York, NY, United States

At the nexus of sustainability and management is the growing field of Sustainable Finance – an interdisciplinary field with elements of corporate sustainability and financial principles including green accounting and carbon accounting, environmental markets, project finance, asset management and sustainable investment, and the impacts of environmental issues on capital markets.

A mix of academics and practitioners will discuss how sustainable finance has developed and evolved as a field. They'’ll debate what we mean by sustainable finance itself and explore the key players and drivers, as well as what it will look like in the future.

Free

The High Line as Urban Accelerator: A Conversation

Offsite Public Program Museum of City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street), New York, NY, United States

The High Line has stimulated tremendous growth in its Chelsea neighborhood and sparked new thinking about multi-use, shared public spaces.

Join High Line co-founder Joshua David for a conversation with architectural critic Paul Goldberger and Vishaan Chakrabarti of SHoP Architects about the impact of this repurposed elevated rail line on the city and its economy.

$16

Choices Conference: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 1

The New School Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States

Interested in sustainable business strategies in New York City?

Join the Sustainable Cities Club of The New School and business leaders of Wyndham hotels, Jones Lang Lasalle, Telepan restaurant and Helpsy fashion to discuss where New York City stands as a sustainable city, what opportunities exist to fill a market demand and how we form municipal policies to increase the City’s sustainability and resiliency.

Free

Alligators in the Sewer Day with screening of Cast in India

Hunter College 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Celebrate Alligators in the Sewers Day, an unofficial annual holiday that Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione initiated four years ago to mark the birth of one of New York City's greatest true urban legends.

Join NYC H2O for an afternoon of fun-filled festivities including a screening of the documentary Cast in India about the making of manhole covers. Michael Miscione will recount the 1935 sighting and briefly discuss other great NYC urban legends -- some true, some not.

Free