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Mobilizing to Defeat Climate Change with Bill McKibben, Rev. Yearwood & Yeampierre

SVA Visual Arts Theater 333 W 23rd St, New York City

The Climate Mobilization is proud to partner with The New Republic to host "Mobilizing to Defeat Climate Change" with three of our nation’s leading environmental activists, Bill McKibben, Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., and Elizabeth Yeampierre for a critical public conversation on climate change, its social, political, and biological impact and what can be done now to arrest and where possible reverse its deadly progress.

Free

Outdoor Bike Repair Class

La Plaza Cultura Garden Avenue C & East 9th Street, Manhattan , NY, United States

Come learn all about bike mechanisms as well as how to repair your own !

Free

Food Waste: Where Are We Now?

Brooklyn Foodworks 630 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Food Waste has been a part of our vocabulary for several years now and we have reached momentum in the space. Come and join the dialogue with a leader in sustainability, a chef and a voice for the food insecure. We promise a lively discussion, thought provoking ideas and solutions to take back to your own kitchens.

Free

Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water

Columbia Law Schoool Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106, New York, NY, United States

Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city's people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.

Free

Can Virtual Reality Foster Global Citizenship?

Civic Hall 156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor, New York, NY, United States

2016 has been heralded as the “year of virtual reality” but few people know about its potential outside of a futuristic gaming technology. However, a market-driven…

Free

Make it Wild!

High line 14th st 10th ave, Manhattan, NY, United States

Enjoy a whole day of family fun on the High Line! Get your hands dirt in our garden, create art, hear stories, watch performances and more!

Free

34th Annual Queens County Fair

Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Queens, NY, United States

Don't miss this traditional county fair with blue ribbon competitions in livestock, produce, home crafts, arts & crafts, and more. The fair features pie eating- and corn husking- contests, hayrides, pig races, carnival rides, midway games, and kids' entertainment by jugglers, magicians, and acrobats! Dance the day away at the Bavarian Garden with an Irish band (Saturday) and German band (Sunday).

Free – $10

Experience Creative Climate Awards

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office 1 E 42nd St., New York, NY, United States

Join us for our sixth Creative Climate Awards, an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works. Our Creative Climate Awards program uses creativity to share knowledge, broaden the climate conversation, educate, and incite action.

Free

Creative Climate Awards Opening

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office 1 E 42nd St., New York, NY, United States

The Opening will feature interactive and performance art pieces done by submitting artists Vangeline Dance Theater, Mechthild Schmidt Feist, and Danielle Boudrand.

Free

Women and Trans Bike Repair Class

Time's Up! Brooklyn 99 South 6th Street, Brooklyn , NY, United States

Come learn the basics of bicycle repair from female mechanics at our workshop designed by women and for women. No previous experience with bicycle repair required. Each week we will cover a different topic!

Free

Urban Sustainability Day!

Common Ground Compost East 11th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A, New York, NY, United States

Get your “hands dirty” and join us outdoors at the East Side Outside Garden with Common Ground Compost to prepare the urban garden for the fall and to learn about their business’ environmental sustainability based model.

Free