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Transition Neighborhoods Workshop – Neighborhood Organizing for Resilient Green Cities

Friends Meeting House 15 Rutherford Place 15th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues, New York, NY, United States

Come learn about the Transition Movement in NYC!

There are 1,100 plus Transition groups in 44 countries with 16 national hubs that have emerged to serve these groups. In the U.S. 151 Transition initiatives have formed with 100 more in formation. It’s time for New York City to tap into the power, creativity, and collective genius of this global grassroots network.

This event is organized by the NYC Transition Hub.

Free

Spark Speaker Series: with Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen of 5 Gyres and Stefanie Spear, founder of EcoWatch

The Moderns 900 Broadway, Suite 202 , New York, NY, United States

Microplastic particles are found in all oceanic gyres, bays, gulfs and seas worldwide.

Once in the environment, microplastics absorb persistent organic pollutants, and are consumed by a variety of marine life, including the fish we harvest for food.

Join the discussion on plastic pollution in our waterways and the serious impact it has on our oceanic ecosystem, and what is being done to stop it.

$25.00

The End of the Environmental Era

Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Room 407 1150 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, United States

This seminar features Leon G. Billings and Thomas C. Jorling, two senior staff members who led the Senate environment subcommittee which originated and developed major environmental legislation in the 1970s, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Superfund Act.

Learn about the process that led to these seminal laws from the writers of the legislation themselves!

Free

November Forum: Post-Bloomberg Focus on Environmental Policy

Trespa Design Centre 62 Greene St, Ground Floor, New York, United States

With just about one year under his belt as Mayor, this forum will focus on some of Mayor De Blasio's policies and actions for the past year and what is on the horizon for Environmental Policy in the city.

Join for an interesting and lively discussion!

Free

Climate Change as Social Drama

The Graduate Center, CUNY , Room C201 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, NY, United States

"Climate Change as Social Drama" with Phil Smith (Yale University) and Todd Gitlin (Columbia University)

free

Retrofitting urban buildings for flood risk

AIANY Housing Committee 536 LaGuardia Place, New York City, NY, United States

Retrofitting urban buildings for flood risk is one of New York City’s most complex planning challenges. Like other American coastal cities – but to an even greater degree given its size, density, and 520 miles of shoreline – NYC’s waterfront neighborhoods face significant challenges in adapting to increased coastal flood risks. This event panel is presented in conjunction with the related Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk report by NYC Department of City Planning, released October 8th, 2014.

FREE

Pedestrian Modern Book Talk with David Smiley

Knoll New York Showroom 1330 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, United States

DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State presents author David Smiley, who will discuss his 2013 book, Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956.

In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption—stores and shopping centers—informed emerging modernist tenets.

New York City Sustainability Jam

The New School 25 East 13th Street 2nd Floor , New York, NY, United States

The Global Sustainability Jam is 48 hours of great creativity, learning, meeting talented people and having fun!

You will be working with people of various backgrounds who you might never have met before, bouncing ideas off one another and turn your ideas into real-world solutions related to “Sustainability”.

Free

Fall Flat 5k Trail Race

Willowbrook Park Eton Place and Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY, United States

"Fall Flat is a 5K trail race on Novemeber 22nd at 10am. The course travels along Willowbrook’s White Trail and around the lake; it is mostly flat and well suited for novice runners and walkers as well as more competitive athletes. This race will be professionally timed culminating in an awards ceremony. Refreshments and race appropriate apparel are provided for registered runners."

$25 – $30

Fitness Hike in Inwood Hill Park

Inwood Hill Park Inwood Hil Park, Manhattan, NY, United States

Come out and enjoy a guided hike in Inwood Hill Park on Sunday, Novemeber 23, 2014 at 11:00am.

Free

Should Universities and Pension Funds Divest from Fossil Fuel Stocks?

Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101 435 West 116th Street (corner of Amsterdam), New York, NY, United States

Divestment has been a growing area of concern as universities and investors grapple with the ethical implications of fossil fuel stocks. A panel of professors…

Free