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  • ConSERVE New York City: Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens

    Gantry Plaza State Park 4-09 47th Road, Long Island City, NY, United States

    Join the Student Conservation Association as they team up with New York State Parks for a day of service at Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens!

    Free

  • Earth2Class Workshop: The Source and Solution to Groundwater Arsenic Contamination

    Unnamed Venue NY, United States

    E2C is a unique science/math/technology resource for K-12 teach­ers, stu­dents, the gen­eral pub­lic, and geo­sci­en­tists. It is a col­lab­o­ra­tion among researchers and an Earth Sci­ence edu­ca­tor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Obser­va­tory of Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity; tech­nol­ogy inte­gra­tion spe­cial­ists from Colé­gio Ban­deirantes, São Paulo, Brasil; and class­room teach­ers from New York, New Jer­sey, and else­where. It cen­ters around Sat­ur­day Work­shops for Edu­ca­tors held at Columbia’s Lam­ont Cam­pus in Pal­isades N.Y.

    $25

  • Composting With Worms: Indoor Vermicomposting Demystified at the Brooklyn Brainery

    Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Composting can seem too hard for the average citizen, but in this class, you’ll learn how easy it can be. We’ll talk through the basics of indoor vermicomposting (composting with worms) and how you can do your part to reduce your food waste.

    Each participant will construct a bin, fill it with bedding, add some red wiggler worms, and watch them go to work!

    $45

  • Ride for Climate presentation with David Kroodsma

    NYC Velo Hell’s Kitchen 590 West 45th Street, New York, NY, United States

    “The Bicy­cle Diaries“ Book talk and slideshow of cycling three con­ti­nents and 30,000 miles For­mer Stan­ford cli­mate change researcher David Kroodsma has bicy­cled from Cal­i­for­nia…

    Free

  • Green Business Summit on Sustainable Food

    Uris Hall, Columbia University 3022 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    A panel on how food supply can adapt to growing global demand and environmental pressures featuring panelists from Whole Foods, Chipotle, and more. Keynote speech on "Beyond Meat." Food and drink reception afterward.

  • Ride for Climate presentation with David Kroodsma

    Red Lantern Bicycles 345 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Former Stanford climate change researcher David Kroodsma has bicycled from California to the southern tip of South America, from Turkey to the east coast of China, and across the U.S. twice.

    Join David for a slideshow of his best photos and videos!

    Free

  • 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

  • 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