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Brooklyn Cherry Blossoms

Brooklyn Botanical Garden 990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Visit the The Brooklyn Botanical Garden to walk through the cherry blossom trees, among the rest of the garden collections. Adults $10, students/seniors $5, children…

$10

Earth Day Craft and Mini Garden Tour

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Join after school to celebrate Earth Day at Queens Botanical Garden! Take a Garden stroll and make a botanically-themed craft. Schools and groups: please contact…

$4

Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Market Innovation

The Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present a lecture by Yerina Mugica, Associate Director of the Center for Market Innovation Program at the Natural Resources Defence Council, on the strategies for directing private capital to investments that produce both economic and environmental benefits, especially in real estate, green infrastructure, and in regenerative agriculture.

Birding Tours of Bryant Park

Bryant Park 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, Manhattan, Select a Country:

Come discover the birds of Bryant Park and learn more about birding!

Free

New York City Green Festival

Javits Convention Center 655 W 34th Street, New York, NY, United States

Green Festival® is a vibrant, dynamic marketplace where companies and organizations come to showcase their green products and services, and where people go to learn how to live healthier, more sustainable lives.

$11 – $29

Arbor Day in Prospect Park

Audubon Center at the Boathouse , Parkside Ave. bet. Flatbush Ave., Ocean Ave. and Prospect Park SW, Brooklyn , NY, United States

How many trees are there in Prospect Park? Join Prospect Park Alliance naturalists and learn about one of the most important ecological features in the park. Enjoy games, crafts and an exhibit on Brooklyn's last remaining forest, Prospect Park!

Free

Arbor Festival

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

It’s a fun-filled day at Queens Botanical Garden's Arbor Festival. Come enjoy a variety of activities for all ages including a petting zoo, arts and…

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The New New York Activists: Urban Green Innovators

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue 10029, New York, NY, United States

To mark the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, the Museum of the City of New York will discuss how citizens, entrepreneurs, and policy makers are making an impact on our city's environment, today and for the future.

Free

Mugwort: Stewarding Plant Invasives

Threes Brewing 333 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

This spring sea­son the Gowanus Canal Con­ser­vancy is host­ing a 4-part series exam­in­ing the theme “Liv­ing Things in an Urban Ecosys­tem”, where invited pan­elists bring their per­spec­tives on the liv­ing infra­struc­ture of New York City, pro­vok­ing ques­tions about our human and envi­ron­men­tal rela­tion­ships within an urban envi­ron­ment.

Free

Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Innovative Strategies for Sustainability Management

The Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present a lecture summarizing the major themes that have emerged throughout the Earth Institute Practicum lecture series. It will consider the future of sustainability management practice with a focus on the importance of leadership in integrating sustainability in organizations.

The Final Mile: How Great Cities Are Fed

SVA Visual Arts Theater 333 W 23rd St, New York City

Open House New York invites you to a very special lecture with Karen Karp, president of Karp Resources, to kick offThe Final Mile: Food Systems of New York, a new year-long series of tours and talks exploring the architecture of New York City's multi-layered food system.

$10