Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge for a one-hour family friendly concert. Door open 15 minutes before performance. There will be no…
Help the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!
Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!