Come join NYC Parks Green Thumb at the Grow to Learn Demonstration Garden as we learn how to prepare plant, maintain, and harvest a bed of baby greens.
Cynthia Cummis will devote this lecture to understanding how the use of sustainability standards and metrics advance the integration of sustainability in the operation of organizations.
Join a panel of environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, and entrepreneurs as they examine the life cycle of the goods we buy—from conception and design to labor and manufacturing, through repair and disposal. How are each of these stages interconnected, and what changes to our consumption habits could truly be impactful?
Professional bird and nature photographers David Speiser and Lloyd Spitalnik will share their expertise and help you improve your photography work.
GreenRoofNYCAre you a private property owner interested in building your own roof top garden, or helping the city in it's efforts to keep our city cleaner and greener? The New York City Department of Environmental Protection offers a grant program for private property owners to do just this. To learn more about this workshop, and workshops like it click here.
This event will focus on "Disruptive Technologies for Transitioning to a Sustainable Economy" and will include speakers from Biomimicry 3.8, Shapeways, Sols, Stratasys/Makerbot, Citigroup, Google, SolarCity, SunEdison and Oak Tree Capital Management.
Atlantic Avenue is one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, but it lacks the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.
Learn more about how to make positive transformations in your neighborhood.
Come together and figure a way to make Upper Manhattan safer for all the residents who live there!
Westchester Avenue is too dangerous for walking and biking. Join Bronx activists to chat up passerby about this dangerous street.
Bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing, house wares, games, books, & toys that you no longer need, and take home something new-to-you, free!
Learn as a family how to spot and identify our feathered neighbors in their natural surroundings.