The Big Picture: How Can Design Change the Way We Live
Diana Center, Room 502 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesA roundtable discussion hosted by the Barnard Architexx on the power design has over our lives.
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Platform: Creative Musings on Mass Transit
New York Transit Museum Boerum Pl, Brooklyn, New York, United StatesAn evening of live performances centered around mass transit in this ongoing series of inter-disciplinary programs.
Forum on Sustainable Agriculture
Unnamed Venue NY, United StatesThe agriculture sector is confronting the challenge of feeding a growing and increasingly prosperous population while minimizing environmental, social and climate change impacts. To profile…
Fueling Our Future: Blackout: Security and the Electric Grid
New York University Center for Global Affairs 15 Barclay St , New York, NY, United StatesWith seven billion people in the world (nine billion projected by 2050), many of whom live in rapidly developing countries, the need for modern technologies with their attendant energy demands is increasing at an exponential rate. Will it be possible to provide sufficient energy for this generation and the next? How will the energy race change global economies and politics?
Join John Bradley, Associate VP, Sustainability, Energy and Technical Services, New York University for a conversation on the emerging solutions and threats facing the electricity distribution sector.
Free
The Earth Institute Annual Student Research Showcase
The Earth Institute, Columbia University is committed to supporting and showcasing student research in the areas of environmental and sustainable development. On Friday, April 3…
Our Land: Local Action, Global Impact
Fashion Institute of Technology Seventh Avenue at 27 Street , New York, NY, United StatesFIT’s Ninth Annual FIT Sustainable Business and Design Conference.
This conference is free and open to the public.
Free
Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum: Affordable Housing, Livable Neighborhoods
NYU Wagner, 2nd Floor, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin NYU Wagner for an engrossing conversation with one of the nation’s leading experts on property law, land use, and affordable housing—Vicki Been.
Free
The State of Sustainability Policy: Progress and Opportunity
Columbia University Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe technological, social, cultural, economic and political transition to a sustainable economy has begun, and public policy is playing a critical role in this transition.
Practitioners from the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and the U.S. federal government will join experts from the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs to discuss the many ways that federal and local governments can support a transition to a sustainable economy based on renewable resources.
Free
Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Protecting New Yorks Water
Columbia University Morningside Campus, Havemeyer Hall 3000 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present a lecture on the use of advocacy, science, the law, and sustainable infrastructure design in safeguarding or restoring watersheds and estuaries, given by Paul Gallay, President and Hudson Riverkeeper, Riverkeeper.
Next Generation Nuclear Power, The Solution to Climate Change?
Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge AuditoriumA film screening of Pandora's Promise followed by a panel discussion on nuclear energy. Keynote address given by Bill Nye, "The Science Guy."
Digging Up Trouble: A Panel on Social Conflict, Sustainable Development and Extractive Resources
Kent Hall 1140 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesA discussion about how extractive resources impacts human rights, the economy, and sustainability.
Institute for Public Architecture Presents: An Inventory of What’s Possible
Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby Avenue (Higgins Hall: Room 406), Brooklyn, New YorkOn April 10 at the Pratt Institute architects, historians, urban advocates, and city officials will present case studies of completed work, addressing design excellence and community priorities.
Free