How would nature design resilient breakwaters, supporting human and ecological services and functions?
Urban Green Harbors Workshop is all day design charrette where attendees will learn about natural means of coastal protection and participate in a design team to incorporate these concepts into a design for a natural breakwater to protect Governor's Island.
In celebration of Grand Central Terminal’s centennial year, MTA Metro-North Railroad has teamed up with The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and Orpheo Inc. to provide new daily docent-guided tours of the terminal.
What are the major sustainable development priorities for 2015?
Come learn more at the this exciting event hosted by Columbia's Sustainability Media Lab!
Come learn about the Transition Movement in NYC!
There are 1,100 plus Transition groups in 44 countries with 16 national hubs that have emerged to serve these groups. In the U.S. 151 Transition initiatives have formed with 100 more in formation. It’s time for New York City to tap into the power, creativity, and collective genius of this global grassroots network.
This event is organized by the NYC Transition Hub.
Microplastic particles are found in all oceanic gyres, bays, gulfs and seas worldwide.
Once in the environment, microplastics absorb persistent organic pollutants, and are consumed by a variety of marine life, including the fish we harvest for food.
Join the discussion on plastic pollution in our waterways and the serious impact it has on our oceanic ecosystem, and what is being done to stop it.
This seminar features Leon G. Billings and Thomas C. Jorling, two senior staff members who led the Senate environment subcommittee which originated and developed major environmental legislation in the 1970s, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Superfund Act.
Learn about the process that led to these seminal laws from the writers of the legislation themselves!
With just about one year under his belt as Mayor, this forum will focus on some of Mayor De Blasio's policies and actions for the past year and what is on the horizon for Environmental Policy in the city.
Join for an interesting and lively discussion!
"Climate Change as Social Drama" with Phil Smith (Yale University) and Todd Gitlin (Columbia University)
Retrofitting urban buildings for flood risk is one of New York City’s most complex planning challenges. Like other American coastal cities – but to an even greater degree given its size, density, and 520 miles of shoreline – NYC’s waterfront neighborhoods face significant challenges in adapting to increased coastal flood risks. This event panel is presented in conjunction with the related Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk report by NYC Department of City Planning, released October 8th, 2014.
DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State presents author David Smiley, who will discuss his 2013 book, Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956.
In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption—stores and shopping centers—informed emerging modernist tenets.
Climate Scientists Dr. Fernandes and Dr. Gianninin, from the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will lead a talk on the connection between temperature changes in…
The Global Sustainability Jam is 48 hours of great creativity, learning, meeting talented people and having fun!
You will be working with people of various backgrounds who you might never have met before, bouncing ideas off one another and turn your ideas into real-world solutions related to “Sustainability”.