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Sustainability Practice Network ‘De Blasio Administration: Freshman Year Report Card’ Panel Discussion

New York University Stern School of Business 44 West 4th Street, Room KMC 1-100, New York

A year ago, Bill de Blasio won the NYC mayoral election handily with an impressive campaign touting progressive change. Appealing to a shrinking middle class, his platform promised to address income disparity, universal pre-K, more affordable housing, and build on his predecessor’s environmental programs.

Join the Sustainability Practice Network's panel of experts to discuss these realities and look ahead to year two of Mayor de Blasio’s administration.

Free

Exploring Creative Community Resilience

The New School 6 East 16th Street (12th floor), New York, NY, United States

Climate-adapted neighbourhoods. Green boulevards. Community food forests.

Around the world, more and more cities are committing to ambitious projects aimed at building resilience in light of climate change.

On February 24, 2015 we will convene at The New School to draw from the experiences of grassroots organizers, co-design champions, urban planning professionals, storytellers and representatives from many other fields of social innovation (that’s you!) to explore how to make resilience a collaborative and inclusive process of “civic imagination”.

Free

Passive Housing 101: An Introduction

Rab Lighting 535 W 24th Street, New York, NY, United States

Are you newly interested in the Passive House concept and wanting to learn more? Please join New York Passive House to find out what the Passive House standard entails.

Ken Levenson, NYPH President will present the basics of Passive House design and showcase typical sustainable strategies used to achieve substantial energy savings.

$10

Inwood’s Changing Forest: Tree Inventory, Social and Ecological Assessment

Payson Center, Inwood Hill Park New York, NY, United States

Speakers from the NAC, DPR and FS will present preliminary results from the Inwood Hill Park project at the Payson Center.

The presentation will include maps and measurements on the trees that have been surveyed for the project thus far, as well as an overview of social and ecological data collection citywide, with an emphasis on Inwood Hill Park’s unique natural areas.

In addition, preliminary data from the ongoing four-season survey of park users will be presented.

Free

Made in New York City: The Reinvention of Local Manufacturing

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

For decades, American and urban manufacturing charted a steep decline, a byproduct of globalization and outsourcing. Today, however, manufacturing is returning to our shores and entering a renaissance in major cities.

Come learn about what's being made in NYC today and what you can do to support local manufacturing. We'll cover industrial policy, business incubators, R&D, hybrid manufacturing, and the craft food movement, among other highlights.

$10

Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook Community Farms 580 Columbia Street, Brooklyn

Join Added Value, the Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn to compost weekly on Fridays from 9:00am to noon and Saturdays from 10:30am to 1:00pm.

Free

Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel

The Mohawk Group 71 West 23rd Street (18th Floor), New York, NY, United States

The eight futuristic, stainless steel-clad digester eggs at Brooklyn's Newtown Creek wastewater plant are designed to process as much as 1.5 million gallons of waste every day.

Join the Urban Green Council at this exciting event to learn more about the eggs, results from the plant's recently completed food waste pilot program, and the three-year full-scale demonstration project that will be launching there soon.

$10 – $15

AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)

The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY, United States

What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.

In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draws inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

Free

AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)

The New School, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.

In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

On February 27 & 28, 2015, imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination.

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