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Book Launch: Sustainability Policy – Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy

Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center, Room 1501 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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.

Free

The Field of Sustainable Finance: Foundations and Future Growth

The Columbia Club, James Madison Room, 2nd Floor 15 W. 43rd St., New York, NY, United States

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.

Free

The High Line as Urban Accelerator: A Conversation

Offsite Public Program Museum of City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street), New York, NY, United States

The High Line has stimulated tremendous growth in its Chelsea neighborhood and sparked new thinking about multi-use, shared public spaces.

Join High Line co-founder Joshua David for a conversation with architectural critic Paul Goldberger and Vishaan Chakrabarti of SHoP Architects about the impact of this repurposed elevated rail line on the city and its economy.

$16

Choices Conference: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 1

The New School Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States

Interested in sustainable business strategies in New York City?

Join the Sustainable Cities Club of The New School and business leaders of Wyndham hotels, Jones Lang Lasalle, Telepan restaurant and Helpsy fashion to discuss where New York City stands as a sustainable city, what opportunities exist to fill a market demand and how we form municipal policies to increase the City’s sustainability and resiliency.

Free

Alligators in the Sewer Day with screening of Cast in India

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

Celebrate Alligators in the Sewers Day, an unofficial annual holiday that Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione initiated four years ago to mark the birth of one of New York City's greatest true urban legends.

Join NYC H2O for an afternoon of fun-filled festivities including a screening of the documentary Cast in India about the making of manhole covers. Michael Miscione will recount the 1935 sighting and briefly discuss other great NYC urban legends -- some true, some not.

Free

Choices: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 2

The New School Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States

Interested in sustainable business strategies in New York City?

Join the Sustainable Cities Club of The New School and business leaders of Wyndham hotels, Jones Lang Lasalle, Telepan restaurant and Heplsy fashion to discuss where New York City stands as a sustainable city, what opportunities exist to fill a market demand and how we form municipal policies to increase the City’s sustainability and resiliency.

Free

The Brooklyn Waterfront: Past and Present

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

In this class at the Brooklyn Brainery, the development, decline, and rebirth of the Brooklyn waterfront, from 19th century port to 21st century playground.

$10

The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges

United Nations Headquarters Conference Room 2 46th Street and 1st Avenue , New York, NY, United States

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization and the American Institute for Architecture New York Chapter are co-organizing a high-level discussion, which will cover key developments in the area of sustainable urbanization, entitled “The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges”.

This event will bring together high-level experts and representatives from national and local governments, non-governmental organizations, academia, foundations and industry.

Free

Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul

Columbia University Morningside Campus Union Theological Seminary, Room 101 80 Claremont Ave, New York, NY, United States

The Earth Institute presents Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul, with author and journalist, Elizabeth L. Cline.

The hastening speed and obsolescence of modern consumer goods--expressed in its most extreme form within fast fashion--has fundamentally reshaped society, culture, economics, and ultimately our sense of selves.

Free

A History of New York City Transportation – From Horsecars to Helicopters

By some estimates, for every New Yorker you see walking around on the streets, there’s one New Yorker underground, riding the train. That’s right - 1/2 of New York’s population is on some form of public transportation at any given moment.

This class covers NYC transportation from the early days, when the best you could hope for was a mud-spattered omnibus ride, through the first steam-powered elevated railroads, all the way up to the Pan Am building helicopter shuttle.

$10