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  • Platform: Creative Musings on Mass Transit

    New York Transit Museum Boerum Pl, Brooklyn, New York, United States

    An evening of live performances centered around mass transit in this ongoing series of inter-disciplinary programs.

  • Forum on Sustainable Agriculture

    Unnamed Venue NY, United States

    The agriculture sector is confronting the challenge of feeding a growing and increasingly prosperous population while minimizing environmental, social and climate change impacts. To profile…

  • Fueling Our Future: Blackout: Security and the Electric Grid

    New York University Center for Global Affairs 15 Barclay St , New York, NY, United States

    With seven billion people in the world (nine billion projected by 2050), many of whom live in rapidly developing countries, the need for modern technologies with their attendant energy demands is increasing at an exponential rate. Will it be possible to provide sufficient energy for this generation and the next? How will the energy race change global economies and politics?

    Join John Bradley, Associate VP, Sustainability, Energy and Technical Services, New York University for a conversation on the emerging solutions and threats facing the electricity distribution sector.

    Free

  • Our Land: Local Action, Global Impact

    Fashion Institute of Technology Seventh Avenue at 27 Street , New York, NY, United States

    FIT’s Ninth Annual FIT Sustainable Business and Design Conference.

    This conference is free and open to the public.

    Free

  • The State of Sustainability Policy: Progress and Opportunity

    Columbia University Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The technological, social, cultural, economic and political transition to a sustainable economy has begun, and public policy is playing a critical role in this transition.

    Practitioners from the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and the U.S. federal government will join experts from the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs to discuss the many ways that federal and local governments can support a transition to a sustainable economy based on renewable resources.

    Free

  • Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Protecting New York’s Water

    Columbia University Morningside Campus, Havemeyer Hall 3000 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present a lecture on the use of advocacy, science, the law, and sustainable infrastructure design in safeguarding or restoring watersheds and estuaries, given by Paul Gallay, President and Hudson Riverkeeper, Riverkeeper.

  • Next Generation Nuclear Power, The Solution to Climate Change?

    Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium

    A film screening of Pandora's Promise followed by a panel discussion on nuclear energy. Keynote address given by Bill Nye, "The Science Guy."

  • Institute for Public Architecture Presents: An Inventory of What’s Possible

    Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby Avenue (Higgins Hall: Room 406), Brooklyn, New York

    On April 10 at the Pratt Institute architects, historians, urban advocates, and city officials will present case studies of completed work, addressing design excellence and community priorities.

    Free

  • The Chlorine Revolution

    Join NYC H2O as Dr. Michael McGuire author of The Chlorine Revolution recounts the story of how chlorine first got introduced into municipal drinking water supplies.

    Free