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Watershed Relief Map Presentation

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

New York City hosted the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens. To show off the city's water system that tapped mountain springs as far as 100 miles away, the Cartographic Survey Force, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, constructed a 3-dimensional model of the system out of wood and plaster for @ $100,000 (about $1.5 million in today's dollars).

You can now see the map for yourself and hear about its story from NYC water educator Matt Malina.

Free

Bargemusic at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Fulton Ferry Landing - Brooklyn Bridge Park Brooklyn, NY, United States

Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge for a one-hour family friendly concert. Door open 15 minutes before performance. There will be no…

Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Mulchfest 2015

The Salt Lot 2 Second Avenue , Brooklyn, NY, United States

Help the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!

Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.

Boat Club Book Club

North Brooklyn Boat Club 49 Ash Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Join other community members around the fire to discuss the book of the month. Food and drink is encouraged. Book club meetings take place on…

Free

Oculus Book Talk: Urban Alchemy

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

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will present Urban Alchemy, Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities, published by New Village Press. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with William Morrish on the intersections of public health and urbanism.

Free – $10.00

Sustainability and the Startup

Interface NYC Showroom 330 Fifth Avenue (the corner of 5th Ave and 33rd Street) 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States

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.

$12

A Panel Discussion and Book Signing: The Landscape of Fracking in New York; What’s Changed and What Hasn’t.

BookCourt 163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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.

Free

Trash: New York City’s Battle with Garbage

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

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!

$10

New York City Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party

15th Street Quaker Meetinghouse 15 Rutherford Place (between 2nd and 3rd Aves), New York, NY, United States

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.

Free

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

Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

The Brainery in Prospect Heights 190 Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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!

$10

Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution

Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work Auditorium 2180 Third Ave at 119th Street , New York, NY, United States

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.

Free