This event will feature four perspectives from leaders in this space, on what it’s like being at a startup in the sustainability community, where they see opportunities and challenges, and how they see this community helping to advance sustainability goals.
The announcement that DEC will prohibit fracking in NYS may lead some to believe that now we’re “safe.” However, pipelines, compressor stations, storage caverns and LNG facilities have been and remain the current threat. “The Real Cost of Fracking” authors, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, will demonstrate why such infrastructure may actually be WORSE than drilling in its health impacts on humans, animals, and our food shed.
This class will trace New York City's protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.
Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!
Transition is a community organizing response to climate change, resource depletion and financial instability. There are 1,100+ Transition groups in 44 countries and over 150 initiatives in the US.
All are welcome to the NYC Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party! Be part of the NYC neighborhood-specific resilience building conversation: Fun, food from around the world and purposeful conversation.
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.
With the Environmental Protection Agency's designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.
But what is a Superfund exactly?
Come learn at this evening class offered at the Brooklyn Brainery!
Hunter College’s East Harlem Art Gallery and CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Presents: Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution. A program in conjunction with the exhibition Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape, photos by Alejandro Durán.
Hike the trails and shoreline of Dead Horse Bay with Mickey Maxwell Cohen, American Littoral Society naturalist, author of Discovering the Trails of Dead Horse Bay.
Explore the nature and fascinating history of this little known area!
596 Acres will present all of the urban renewal plans that the City has ever adopted in an intervention directly on the Panorama of the City of New York, realizing the online Urban Reviewer (urbanreviewer.org) map on a 1:1200 scale of the 9,335 square foot Panorama.
What can we learn from the continuing story of urban renewal in NYC? Check out the exhibit!
Washed Up is an ongoing project by Mexican-born, New York-based artist Alejandro Durán that addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve.
Come see how this Alejandro Durán addresses these issues through art!
The Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University present a book launch, Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy. Authors Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, and Alison Miller will be discussing their new book, published by Jossey-Bass in January 2015.
At the nexus of sustainability and management is the growing field of Sustainable Finance an interdisciplinary field with elements of corporate sustainability and financial principles including green accounting and carbon accounting, environmental markets, project finance, asset management and sustainable investment, and the impacts of environmental issues on capital markets.
A mix of academics and practitioners will discuss how sustainable finance has developed and evolved as a field. They'll debate what we mean by sustainable finance itself and explore the key players and drivers, as well as what it will look like in the future.