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The Future of Urban Coastal Resilience: Red Hook and Beyond

AIA Center for Architecture Hines Gallery, 435 LaGuardia Place , New York , NY, United States

More than 600 million people call coastal cities home, but those areas are facing dramatic change from rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions. How can we rethink resilient design—for Red Hook and beyond—to strengthen sustainability, habitat, and community? And what will it take to transition from a reactive state to one of true preparedness?

Free

Urban Food Policy Forum: Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City

CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy 55 West 125th Street 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States

Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture—fresh food, green space, educational opportunities—can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder to achieve.

Free

Environmental Justice: What’s Race Got to Do With It?

Columbia Law School, Jerome Green Hall, Room 104 W 116th Street, New York, NY, United States

The Columbia Journal of Race and Law ("CJRL") was founded in 2010 with the purpose of deepening the legal community’s discourse on historic and contemporary notions of socio-political and legal challenges facing racial and ethnic minorities. Join us as experts shed greater light on legal issues that impact communities of color !

Free

Dispatches from the Gulf

Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue Entrance on 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd, New York, NY, NY, United States

Six years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a global team works together to understand its environmental impact. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the Journey to Planet Earth documentary series, draws connections between the sciences, politics, economics, sociology, and history. Join the Sustainability Taskforce for a screening and talk with Emmy-award winning documentarians Hal and Marilyn Weiner.

Free

A Night of Shorts and Live Music

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office 1 E 42nd St., New York, NY, United States

Join us for an incredible lineup of short films and live music that will make you stop and think about your impacts in mysterious, beautiful ways.

Free – $20

Central Park Youth Basketball Clinics

North Meadow Recreation Center

Take your kids outside to enjoy the Park and to learn and enhance their athletic skills through small group instruction and competitive games in these…

Free

Photo Poetry: Finding Inspiration in the Urban Environment w/ Miska Draskoczy

ArtLab Gowanus 214 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Learn how photography and poetry can combine to explore the rich fabric of our urban environment. Part neighborhood photo walk, part writing workshop, no prior experience is necessary, just an openness to experimentation, play and collaboration. Miska Draskoczy is a photographer and writer whose forthcoming photo book, Gowanus Wild, examines nature and wilderness in the industrial environment.

Free

Buswick Beer Walking Tour

31 Belvidere Street 31 Belvidere Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Join beer aficionado Chris Heuberger in a guided walking tour of Brewers Row dating from when Bushwick, Brooklyn was the brewing center of America. Critical to Bushwick's success was its ready access to quality water from the Ridgewood Reservoir and hops grown in upstate New York.

$32.49

Taste, Sip, Learn – Locavores!

Black Tree BK 261 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Come enjoy some hand crafted drinks and small bites create by your local producers at one of our Aura Rated restaurants, Black Tree BK! Connect with the producers about their products on where, how, and when they were made, learn what it takes to be a farm-to-table restaurant from chef/owner Sandy!

$30

How to Grow a City – Presented at SohoHouse

SoHo House 139 Ludlow Street , New York, NY, United States

Join us for an in-depth panel discussion into the complex landscape of cities and the challenges facing how we decide to grow them. The diverse panel of experts will share unique perspectives and insights into how they're currently shaping the future of city living.

Free

Environmental Justice: Then and Now

The New School 66 W 12th Street, New York, NY, United States

Take a look at the past, present, and future of the Environmental Justice movement. Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the adoption of The Principles, examine the progress of the Environmental Justice movement, and discuss what is yet to be achieved.

Free