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Public Space: Opportunities and challenges for Empowering Women

Conference Room 1, United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United States

While access to public spaces in cities is highly contested for due to pressures from rapid urbanization and large-scale migration, creating public spaces that cater to women's needs and skills can give them an oft-missing space of their own to set up a business, network and interact with other members of the community to exchange ideas and information

Free

From the Right to Light to the Right Lights

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

In this public program, speakers will present lighting design work for public interest that range from ongoing projects in informal settlements in Haiti to participatory workshops in low-income housing environments.

In a panel following the presentations, speakers will debate the role that socially-engaged lighting design practices play and how lighting education can support a stronger social culture in practice and discourse in the field of lighting design

Free

High Bridge: A New Beginning

Hunter College, Room 714 Hunter West 68th Street and Lexington Avenue , New York, NY, United States

The High Bridge is slated to reopen as a walkway in summer 2015. Come hear Bryan Diffley, the Project Manager of the renovation, speak about NYC's oldest standing bridge.

Free

New Ways to Welcome Spring: Climate Change and You

Celebrate the changing seasons with an evening of enlightening and entertaining works from the journalist Elizabeth Royte and John KixMiller, the author of The Protectors of The Wood, a series of illustrated adventure novels about a group of misfit teenagers saving the world from climate change. KixMiller will be joined by the four-piece Protectors of the Wood Band.

Free

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Roots of Resilience

Brooklyn Botanic Garden 990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

In keeping with the notion of sankofa—remembering the past in order to move forward—this year’s theme, “Roots of Resilience,” will examine the ways in which sustainability is tradition, not trend.

Free

FamilyDay@theCenter: Skyscrapers!

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

Learn about skyscrapers and work with a team to design and build your own model skyscrapers! Recommended for children 5 and up, accompanied by an adult.

Fueling Our Future: Going North: Leadership in the Arctic

New York University Center for Global Affairs 15 Barclay St , New York, NY, United States

The Arctic has grown in importance as a focal point on international security, environmental protection, and climate change, as well as a new frontier for trade, shipping, and resource exploration.

Join CGA Clinical Associate Professor and Academic Director Carolyn Kissane for a conversation on Canadian and U.S. leadership in the Arctic, emerging priorities in the region, and how these developments might affect international energy and environmental policy.

Free

Countdown to Paris: Update on Global Climate Treaty Negotiations

New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 West 64th Street, New York, NY, United States

In the six months since the People’s Climate March in NYC, UN negotiators have been working on proposals for the global climate treaty conference that will take place in Paris in December 2015. Please join 350NYC and the NY Society for Ethical Culture for an evening of discussion among climate leaders, including attendees at the preliminary talks in Lima and Geneva.

$5

Living with Urban Coyotes

Van Cortlandt Nature Center in Van Cortlandt Park West 246th Street and Broadway, Bronx, NY, United States

New York City is home to an amazing abundance of wildlife.

NYC Parks Urban Park Rangers will guide you to the best wildlife viewing spots in the urban jungle. Learn about the basic biology of these super smart and energetic animals.

Free

The New York City You’ve Never Seen: All New Queens Edition

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

Did you know Queens, NY is a land of discovery?

This virtual tour of some of Queens' hidden spots will entice you with the adventures that await you and arm you with what you need to organize your own fantastic day trips - no passport or plane ticket needed, just your metro card, a few dollars, and maybe your cell phone in case you get lost...

$10

Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Standards and Metrics for Sustainability Performance

Columbia University Morningside Campus, Havemeyer Hall, Room 209 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present an introduction to how sustainability standards and metrics can advance the integration of sustainability in communities. The talk will center on the STAR Community Rating System, a national certification program that promotes health, inclusion, and prosperity.

Free