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The Final Mile: How Great Cities Are Fed

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

Open 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 States

In 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 States

Mapping 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 States

Catch 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 States

This 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 States

Walk 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.

Extreme Weather and Climate: Hazards, Impacts, Actions

Columbia University Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015, Manhattan, NY, United States

Join this free workshop on Extreme Climate featuring fifteen speakers from across Columbia University covering a diverse array of topics!

Free

New York Cares spring happy hour

Boat Basin Cafe 390 W 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Enjoy delicious Newburgh Brewery beer or sip your signature Spring cocktail with friends and celebrate the end of a long, cold winter! Buy a raffle to win a getaway trip, a fashion item, or tickets to an upcoming sporting event, all while supporting a good cause.

Free

Riverkeeper Day of Service

Multiple Locations New York City, NY, United States

In just four years, the annual Riverkeeper Sweep has grown from 30 clean-up and stewardship sites in 2012 to 100 — and possibly more — this year.
As more people become engaged in restoring the Hudson River and its tributaries, the Sweep — to be held on Saturday, May 9 — will make a visible impact in communities from Red Hook in South Brooklyn to Troy in the Capital District.

Free

Eighth Annual New York City Wildflower Week

New York City Wildflower Week

NYC Wildflower Week presents a full week of free events to showcase the 53,000 acres of open space and 778 native plants in NYC's 5 boroughs. The goal of the week is simple: to encourage New Yorkers to get to know the nature in their own back yard and to inspire them to protect this natural heritage for future generations. Most events are FREE and open to the public!

Free