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Food Waste: Where Are We Now?

Brooklyn Foodworks 630 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Food Waste has been a part of our vocabulary for several years now and we have reached momentum in the space. Come and join the dialogue with a leader in sustainability, a chef and a voice for the food insecure. We promise a lively discussion, thought provoking ideas and solutions to take back to your own kitchens.

Free

Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water

Columbia Law Schoool Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106, New York, NY, United States

Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city's people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.

Free

Can Virtual Reality Foster Global Citizenship?

Civic Hall 156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor, New York, NY, United States

2016 has been heralded as the “year of virtual reality” but few people know about its potential outside of a futuristic gaming technology. However, a market-driven…

Free

Make it Wild!

High line 14th st 10th ave, Manhattan, NY, United States

Enjoy a whole day of family fun on the High Line! Get your hands dirt in our garden, create art, hear stories, watch performances and more!

Free

34th Annual Queens County Fair

Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Queens, NY, United States

Don't miss this traditional county fair with blue ribbon competitions in livestock, produce, home crafts, arts & crafts, and more. The fair features pie eating- and corn husking- contests, hayrides, pig races, carnival rides, midway games, and kids' entertainment by jugglers, magicians, and acrobats! Dance the day away at the Bavarian Garden with an Irish band (Saturday) and German band (Sunday).

Free – $10

Experience Creative Climate Awards

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

Join us for our sixth Creative Climate Awards, an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works. Our Creative Climate Awards program uses creativity to share knowledge, broaden the climate conversation, educate, and incite action.

Free

Creative Climate Awards Opening

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

The Opening will feature interactive and performance art pieces done by submitting artists Vangeline Dance Theater, Mechthild Schmidt Feist, and Danielle Boudrand.

Free

Women and Trans Bike Repair Class

Time's Up! Brooklyn 99 South 6th Street, Brooklyn , NY, United States

Come learn the basics of bicycle repair from female mechanics at our workshop designed by women and for women. No previous experience with bicycle repair required. Each week we will cover a different topic!

Free

Urban Sustainability Day!

Common Ground Compost East 11th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A, New York, NY, United States

Get your “hands dirty” and join us outdoors at the East Side Outside Garden with Common Ground Compost to prepare the urban garden for the fall and to learn about their business’ environmental sustainability based model.

Free

Neversink Reservoir Paddle

Neversink Reservoir Neversink Reservoir, Neversink, NY, United States

Come paddle on the Neversink Reservoir. The Neversink Reservoir is the highest in elevation in NYC's water system with it's spillway at 1,440 feet in elevation. Put in service in 1955, it helps supply NYC with roughly half of its daily water intake along with its 3 sister Delaware system reservoirs.

$27.24 – $105.99

Book Talk: Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel

The Tenement Museum 103 Orchard Street, New York, United States

Come hear Robert Kanigel talk about his book, the first major biography of Jane Jacobs. “Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs” is about the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.

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