Arbor Festival
Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United StatesIt’s a fun-filled day at Queens Botanical Garden's Arbor Festival. Come enjoy a variety of activities for all ages including a petting zoo, arts and…
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The New New York Activists: Urban Green Innovators
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue 10029, New York, NY, United StatesTo mark the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, the Museum of the City of New York will discuss how citizens, entrepreneurs, and policy makers are making an impact on our city's environment, today and for the future.
Free
Mugwort: Stewarding Plant Invasives
Threes Brewing 333 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThis spring season the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is hosting a 4-part series examining the theme “Living Things in an Urban Ecosystem”, where invited panelists bring their perspectives on the living infrastructure of New York City, provoking questions about our human and environmental relationships within an urban environment.
Free
Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Innovative Strategies for Sustainability Management
The Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present a lecture summarizing the major themes that have emerged throughout the Earth Institute Practicum lecture series. It will consider the future of sustainability management practice with a focus on the importance of leadership in integrating sustainability in organizations.
The Final Mile: How Great Cities Are Fed
SVA Visual Arts Theater 333 W 23rd St, New York CityOpen House New York invites you to a very special lecture with Karen Karp, president of Karp Resources, to kick offThe Final Mile: Food Systems of New York, a new year-long series of tours and talks exploring the architecture of New York City's multi-layered food system.
$10
MoMA’s Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities
The Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY, United StatesIn 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe.
To engage this international debate, Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises.
Mapping Brooklyn Exhibit
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesMapping Brooklyn juxtaposes the work of contemporary artists working with historic maps, with examples of maps themselves, suggesting the myriad ways that maps can represent, on the one hand, such practical matters as way finding, property ownership, population shifts, and war strategy, and on other, the terrain of the metaphorical, psychological, and personal.
Free
Nature Walk and Bird Watching at Ridgewood Reservoir
Upper Highland Park Jackie Robinson Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesCatch the warbler wave and welcome them back at this spring bird watching workshop led by Peter Dorosh of the Brooklyn Bird Club.
Free
Earth2Class Workshop: Microbes in the Sea – Demonstrations and Activity Session for the Marine Science Resource Kits
Earth2Class presents "Microbes in the Sea - Demonstrations and Activity Session for the Marine Science Resource Kits" with Sonya Dyrhman, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and Sheean Haley, Senior Staff Associate, Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University.
$25
Earth Day Rockaway
rockaway beach and boardwalk Boardwalk and Beach 86, queens, NY, United StatesThis 9th annual celebration lets kids and families take part in free environmental activities along the waterfront!
Free
Tour Fulton Center Station
South Ferry and Whitehall Street South Ferry and Whitehall Street, Manhattan, NY, United StatesWalk with Projjal Dutta, Director of Sustainability Initiatives at the MTA, from the shuttered South Ferry station to Fulton Center station, a gleaming new transit center for downtown New York.