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Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel

The Mohawk Group 71 West 23rd Street (18th Floor), New York, NY, United States

The eight futuristic, stainless steel-clad digester eggs at Brooklyn's Newtown Creek wastewater plant are designed to process as much as 1.5 million gallons of waste every day.

Join the Urban Green Council at this exciting event to learn more about the eggs, results from the plant's recently completed food waste pilot program, and the three-year full-scale demonstration project that will be launching there soon.

$10 – $15

AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)

The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY, United States

What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.

In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draws inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

Free

AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)

The New School, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.

In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

On February 27 & 28, 2015, imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination.

Free

The World’s Park Community Forum 1

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

Do you want to participate in creative improvements to Flushing Meadows Corona Park?

Anyone interested in the future of Flushing Meadows Corona Park is invited to come to the Queens Museum for presentations as well as activities for all ages that will invite community members to thoughtfully engage with, and contribute, bold ideas for improving the access, circulation, and overall connectivity of the park with its surrounding communities.

Free

Busting the Green Myth: What is Sustainability?

Centre For Social Innovation 601 W 26th Street, New York, NY, United States

Look beyond the ‘green’ hype, get the deeper details on what the hell sustainability is and how it relates to professional practice and our personal lives. The Un-School of Disruptive Design NYC will address the ways in which we can all help achieve it.

$3535

Women, Climate and Cities: : An Intersectional Perspective

The New School, Orozco Room, Room 712, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street , New York, NY, United States

This event will focus on women’s role in raising awareness as well as providing solutions to climate change issues specifically within the urban context.

Participants will examine what women have brought to the table in the climate movement as well as the specific benefits of having a gendered approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, namely, in terms of disaster risk recovery, green jobs and urban infrastructure such as public transport.

Free

Deconstructing the High Line: A Public Symposium

The New School 66 W.11th St., 5th floor , New York, NY, United States

A public discussion on the High Line's role in regards to urban design, ecology, public works, and creative practice with scholarly opinion from urban studies, art, architecture, geography, and cultural analysts.

Free

Climate Injustice: Are There Solutions?

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College 47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY, United States

Climate change finally has the attention of the American public, but mainly as a generalized warning. To sharpen the focus, the Roosevelt House Public Policy…

New York City Safe Energy Coalition Meeting

New York Environmental and Justice Law Project Suite 701, 11 Park Place , New York, NY, United States

NYCSEC, New York City Safe Energy Coalition, is devoted to closing Indian Point and more. Started by Ken Gale to address three related issues: closing Indian Point, growing the renewable energy industry, and making NYC buildings more efficient.

The group meets the first and third Thursday of every month. at 6:30 pm for a potluck and 7:00 pm sharp for the meeting.

Free

Recycle-To-Art

Poe Park Visitor Center 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx

Have fun turning discarded materials into usable works of art in this free, family-friendly event.

Free