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Birding for Families

Charles A. Dana Discovery Center Central Park (Harlem Meer), 110th st. between fifth and Lenox avenues, New York, NY, United States

Learn as a family how to spot and identify our feathered neighbors in their natural surroundings.

Free

Junior Volunteer Corps Spring Cleaning

Prospect Park Grand Army Plaza Entrance, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Families and elementary-school-aged community groups are invited to join NYC Parks for spring cleaning!

Free

LDEO Spring Public Lecture Series: Ocean Acidification and Climate Change

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium, Columbia University 3000 Broadway, New York , NY, United States

The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Spring Public Lectures presents, "Ocean acidification and climate change," with Brbel Hnisch, Associate Professor.

Free

Sustainable Electronics Panel Discussion and Networking Opportunity

Columbia University Club of New York 15 West 43rd Street , New York, NY, United States

Join Columbia Business School Alumni Club on April 1st for this panel discussion about achieving an ethical electronics value chain, from raw materials to disposal.

$40

Pruning and Training Fruit Trees

P.S. 443 The Family School Garden 1116 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx, NY, United States

Learn how to prune fruit trees to improve production and protect tree health.

Free

Field of Greens: Grow a Spring Salad!

GrowNYC Greening Library 49 Chambers Street, Rm 212, Manhattan, NY, United States

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.

Free

Can Consumption Change the World?

Diana Event Oval, Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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?

Free

NYC Audubon Photography Club

National Audubon Offices 225 Varick Street, New York, NY, United States

Professional bird and nature photographers David Speiser and Lloyd Spitalnik will share their expertise and help you improve your photography work.

$8

Workshop for The Green Infrastructure Plan

Hostos Community College 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx

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.

Free

Columbia Business School Green Business Summit

Columbia University Morningside Campus, Low Library, Rotunda, NY, United States

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.

Free

Friday Night Lights on Atlantic Avenue

Court Street and Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY, United States

Atlantic Avenue is one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, but it lacks the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.

Free