Queens Botanical Garden: Indoor Gardening Workshop: Start your Summer Veggies Indoors
Join Fred Gerber, Director of Education Emeritus for an adult workshop on starting your summer vegetables indoors.
$6
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Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main St, Flushing, NY, United States
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Hearing on Proposal For Swimmable New York City Waters
US EPA Region 2 Office 290 Broadway, Room 27A, New York, NY, United StatesYour voice is needed to call for swimmable (and paddle-able) water in NYC! The NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation has proposed to improve the quality…
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Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide
Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesWith 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?
This class will focus on citizen participation in the Superfund process and conclude with a discussion of current and future sites in the five boroughs.
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Planning in Silence: The Challenge of Hybrid Water Provision
Avery Hall, Rm 114 Columbia University (116 St. and Bway), New York, NY, United StatesA look at urban water reform in African countries from the perspective of its users.
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Edge Sustainability: The Future of Architecture in a Changing Climate
The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will explore how architecture must undergo a paradigm shift in order to respond to climate change and address the ambitious 80 by 50 plan set to mitigate it by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Freshkills Park Series: Planning and Designing the Park
Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThe ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City, using state of the art ecological restoration techniques in an extraordinary setting for recreation, public art, and environmental investigation.
Learn about the planning process and conceptual design that NYC Parks is making a reality in this talk by Freshkills Park Manager for Programs, Arts and Grants, Mariel Villere.
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Museum of the City of New York: Soundscape New York – Opening Reception and Conversation
Donald Albrecht, MCNY curator of Architecture and Design, joins writer Tony Hiss to speak on the Museum's new exhibit on the soundscapes of iconic Manhattan sites such as Grand Central Terminal and the 42nd Street Public Library.
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Recycle-To-Art
Poe Park Visitor Center 2640 Grand Concourse, BronxHave fun turning discarded materials into usable works of art in this free, family-friendly event.
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Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Ethical Issues in Responding to a Global Disease Crisis – Ebola and Beyond
Columbia University Morningside Campus Alfred J. Lerner Hall, Satow Room 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThis session explores the ethical issues in dealing with infectious disease threats in a global environment. Issues from the current Ebola crisis are explored to understand the nature of these issues, and to generate lessons to guide future responses.
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Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: City Politics and Sustainability
Havemeyer Hall Room 209, Columbia University Morningside Campus 3000 Broadway, New York , NY, United StatesA lecture given by Katherine Gajewski, Director of Sustainability in the City of Philadelphia on the strategies of implementing successful urban sustainability programs in the face of political and fiscal obstacles.
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United Nations Habitat: the City We Need
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United StatesHow do we create the City We Need for the future where women and girls will reach their potential and realize their human rights?
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Emerging Voices: Brian Phillips; Roberto Rovira
Scholastic Auditorium 557 Broadway, New York, NYA lecture featuring leaders in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism hosted by the Architectural League of New York.
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