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Can Consumption Change the World?

Diana Event Oval, Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Join a panel of environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, and entrepreneurs as they examine the
life cycle of the goods we buy—from conception and design to labor and manufacturing, through repair and disposal. How are each of these stages interconnected, and what changes to our consumption habits could truly be impactful?

Free

NYC Audubon Photography Club

National Audubon Offices 225 Varick Street, New York, NY, United States

Professional bird and nature photographers David Speiser and Lloyd Spitalnik will share their expertise and help you improve your photography work.

$8

Workshop for The Green Infrastructure Plan

Hostos Community College 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx

GreenRoofNYCAre you a private property owner interested in building your own roof top garden, or helping the city in it's efforts to keep our city cleaner and greener? The New York City Department of Environmental Protection offers a grant program for private property owners to do just this. To learn more about this workshop, and workshops like it click here.

Free

Columbia Business School Green Business Summit

Columbia University Morningside Campus, Low Library, Rotunda, NY, United States

This event will focus on "Disruptive Technologies for Transitioning to a Sustainable Economy" and will include speakers from Biomimicry 3.8, Shapeways, Sols, Stratasys/Makerbot, Citigroup, Google, SolarCity, SunEdison and Oak Tree Capital Management.

Free

Friday Night Lights on Atlantic Avenue

Court Street and Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY, United States

Atlantic Avenue is one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, but it lacks the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.

Free

Petitioning For an Inwood Vision Zero Forum

Inwood Greenmarket Cooper Street and Seaman Avenue, Manhattan, NY, United States

Come together and figure a way to make Upper Manhattan safer for all the residents who live there!

Free

Action to Fix Westchester Avenue

Westchester Avenue at Southern Blvd Westchester Avenue at Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

Westchester Avenue is too dangerous for walking and biking. Join Bronx activists to chat up passerby about this dangerous street.

Free

Queens Stop N’ Swap

PS 50 1550 Vyse Ave, New York, NY, United States

Bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing, house wares, games, books, & toys that you no longer need, and take home something new-to-you, free!

Free

Birding for Families

Charles A. Dana Discovery Center Central Park (Harlem Meer), 110th st. between fifth and Lenox avenues, New York, NY, United States

Learn as a family how to spot and identify our feathered neighbors in their natural surroundings.

Free

Cities by Water: Solutions from Copenhagen and New York

The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, United States

This program will explore how the integration of urban planning, infrastructure and new technologies is redefining not only how cities cope with climate change, but also how they improve conditions of human life.

Free

Workshop for The Green Infrastructure Plan

NYC Department of Environmental Protection 59-17 Junction Boulevard, Queens, NY, United States

GreenRoofNYCAre you a private property owner interested in building your own roof top garden, or helping the city in it's efforts to keep our city cleaner and greener? The New York City Department of Environmental Protection offers a grant program for private property owners to do just this. To learn more about this workshop, and workshops like it click here.

Free