• 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
  • MoMA’s Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities

    The Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY, United States

    In 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe.

    To engage this international debate, Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises.

  • Mapping Brooklyn Exhibit

    Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Mapping Brooklyn juxtaposes the work of contemporary artists working with historic maps, with examples of maps themselves, suggesting the myriad ways that maps can represent, on the one hand, such practical matters as way finding, property ownership, population shifts, and war strategy, and on other, the terrain of the metaphorical, psychological, and personal.

    Free
  • Nature Walk and Bird Watching at Ridgewood Reservoir

    Upper Highland Park Jackie Robinson Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Catch the warbler wave and welcome them back at this spring bird watching workshop led by Peter Dorosh of the Brooklyn Bird Club.

    Free