Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Mulchfest 2015
The Salt Lot 2 Second Avenue , Brooklyn, NY, United StatesHelp the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!
Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.
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Boat Club Book Club
North Brooklyn Boat Club 49 Ash Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJoin other community members around the fire to discuss the book of the month. Food and drink is encouraged. Book club meetings take place on…
Free
Oculus Book Talk: Urban Alchemy
The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place , New York, New York, United StatesDr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will present Urban Alchemy, Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities, published by New Village Press. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with William Morrish on the intersections of public health and urbanism.
Free – $10.00
Sustainability and the Startup
Interface NYC Showroom 330 Fifth Avenue (the corner of 5th Ave and 33rd Street) 12th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will feature four perspectives from leaders in this space, on what it’s like being at a startup in the sustainability community, where they see opportunities and challenges, and how they see this community helping to advance sustainability goals.
$12
A Panel Discussion and Book Signing: The Landscape of Fracking in New York; What’s Changed and What Hasn’t.
BookCourt 163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThe announcement that DEC will prohibit fracking in NYS may lead some to believe that now we’re “safe.” However, pipelines, compressor stations, storage caverns and LNG facilities have been and remain the current threat. “The Real Cost of Fracking” authors, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, will demonstrate why such infrastructure may actually be WORSE than drilling in its health impacts on humans, animals, and our food shed.
Free
Trash: New York City’s Battle with Garbage
Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThis class will trace New York City's protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.
Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!
$10
New York City Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party
15th Street Quaker Meetinghouse 15 Rutherford Place (between 2nd and 3rd Aves), New York, NY, United StatesTransition is a community organizing response to climate change, resource depletion and financial instability. There are 1,100+ Transition groups in 44 countries and over 150 initiatives in the US.
All are welcome to the NYC Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party! Be part of the NYC neighborhood-specific resilience building conversation: Fun, food from around the world and purposeful conversation.
Free
Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Red Hook Community Farms 580 Columbia Street, BrooklynJoin Added Value, the Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn to compost weekly on Fridays from 9:00am to noon and Saturdays from 10:30am to 1:00pm.
Free
Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide
The Brainery in Prospect Heights 190 Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesWith the Environmental Protection Agency's designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.
But what is a Superfund exactly?
Come learn at this evening class offered at the Brooklyn Brainery!
$10
Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution
Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work Auditorium 2180 Third Ave at 119th Street , New York, NY, United StatesHunter College’s East Harlem Art Gallery and CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Presents: Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution. A program in conjunction with the exhibition Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape, photos by Alejandro Durán.
Free
Explore Dead Horse Bay, New York’s Best Kept Secret
Floyd Bennett Field Ranger Station Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesHike the trails and shoreline of Dead Horse Bay with Mickey Maxwell Cohen, American Littoral Society naturalist, author of Discovering the Trails of Dead Horse Bay.
Explore the nature and fascinating history of this little known area!
Free
596 Acres presents Reviewing Renewal on the Queens Museum Panorama
Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States596 Acres will present all of the urban renewal plans that the City has ever adopted in an intervention directly on the Panorama of the City of New York, realizing the online Urban Reviewer (urbanreviewer.org) map on a 1:1200 scale of the 9,335 square foot Panorama.
What can we learn from the continuing story of urban renewal in NYC? Check out the exhibit!
Free