Gotham: New York City’s Best Writers: Richard Ford
Hear Richard Ford speak on "Let Me Be Frank with You," a story of reconciliation after Hurricane Sandy.
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Brooklyn Public Library: Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY, United States -
Winter Tree Identification
Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesAdd a bit of excitement and arboreal enjoyment to your winter walks with a lesson in tree identification! Look closely at the tree's wintry bits: buds, bark, and fruiting bodies and your snowy sojourns will be evermore enchanting.
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New York University Urban Seminar Series: Donald Davis on The Spatial and Social Frictions in the City
New York University Kaufman Management Center Room 3-10 44 W 4th St., New York CityColumbia professor of Economics Donald Davis will discuss spatial and social frictions in the city.
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Urban Forest Protection in New York City
Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Room 114, Avery Hall 116th St & Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesA lecture through Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation about urban forest protection and restoration in New York City given by Timon McPhearson.
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Sustainability Practice Network ‘De Blasio Administration: Freshman Year Report Card’ Panel Discussion
New York University Stern School of Business 44 West 4th Street, Room KMC 1-100, New YorkA year ago, Bill de Blasio won the NYC mayoral election handily with an impressive campaign touting progressive change. Appealing to a shrinking middle class, his platform promised to address income disparity, universal pre-K, more affordable housing, and build on his predecessor’s environmental programs.
Join the Sustainability Practice Network's panel of experts to discuss these realities and look ahead to year two of Mayor de Blasio’s administration.
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Exploring Creative Community Resilience
The New School 6 East 16th Street (12th floor), New York, NY, United StatesClimate-adapted neighbourhoods. Green boulevards. Community food forests.
Around the world, more and more cities are committing to ambitious projects aimed at building resilience in light of climate change.
On February 24, 2015 we will convene at The New School to draw from the experiences of grassroots organizers, co-design champions, urban planning professionals, storytellers and representatives from many other fields of social innovation (that’s you!) to explore how to make resilience a collaborative and inclusive process of “civic imagination”.
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Passive Housing 101: An Introduction
Rab Lighting 535 W 24th Street, New York, NY, United StatesAre you newly interested in the Passive House concept and wanting to learn more? Please join New York Passive House to find out what the Passive House standard entails.
Ken Levenson, NYPH President will present the basics of Passive House design and showcase typical sustainable strategies used to achieve substantial energy savings.
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Inwood’s Changing Forest: Tree Inventory, Social and Ecological Assessment
Payson Center, Inwood Hill Park New York, NY, United StatesSpeakers from the NAC, DPR and FS will present preliminary results from the Inwood Hill Park project at the Payson Center.
The presentation will include maps and measurements on the trees that have been surveyed for the project thus far, as well as an overview of social and ecological data collection citywide, with an emphasis on Inwood Hill Park’s unique natural areas.
In addition, preliminary data from the ongoing four-season survey of park users will be presented.
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Resilient New York: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Face of Climate Change
Lerner Hall, Columbia University 115th and Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesLearn how New York City has implemented and planned solutions to a post-Sandy society through urban planning and architecture.
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Made in New York City: The Reinvention of Local Manufacturing
Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesFor decades, American and urban manufacturing charted a steep decline, a byproduct of globalization and outsourcing. Today, however, manufacturing is returning to our shores and entering a renaissance in major cities.
Come learn about what's being made in NYC today and what you can do to support local manufacturing. We'll cover industrial policy, business incubators, R&D, hybrid manufacturing, and the craft food movement, among other highlights.
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Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Red Hook Community Farms 580 Columbia Street, BrooklynJoin 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.
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Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel
The Mohawk Group 71 West 23rd Street (18th Floor), New York, NY, United StatesThe eight futuristic, stainless steel-clad digester eggs at Brooklyn's Newtown Creek wastewater plant are designed to process as much as 1.5 million gallons of waste every day.
Join the Urban Green Council at this exciting event to learn more about the eggs, results from the plant's recently completed food waste pilot program, and the three-year full-scale demonstration project that will be launching there soon.
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