Join Columbia Business School Alumni Club on April 1st for this panel discussion about achieving an ethical electronics value chain, from raw materials to disposal.
Learn how to prune fruit trees to improve production and protect tree health.
Come join NYC Parks Green Thumb at the Grow to Learn Demonstration Garden as we learn how to prepare plant, maintain, and harvest a bed of baby greens.
Cynthia Cummis will devote this lecture to understanding how the use of sustainability standards and metrics advance the integration of sustainability in the operation of organizations.
Join a panel of environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, and entrepreneurs as they examine the life cycle of the goods we buy—from conception and design to labor and manufacturing, through repair and disposal. How are each of these stages interconnected, and what changes to our consumption habits could truly be impactful?
GreenRoofNYCAre you a private property owner interested in building your own roof top garden, or helping the city in it's efforts to keep our city cleaner and greener? The New York City Department of Environmental Protection offers a grant program for private property owners to do just this. To learn more about this workshop, and workshops like it click here.
This event will focus on "Disruptive Technologies for Transitioning to a Sustainable Economy" and will include speakers from Biomimicry 3.8, Shapeways, Sols, Stratasys/Makerbot, Citigroup, Google, SolarCity, SunEdison and Oak Tree Capital Management.
Atlantic Avenue is one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, but it lacks the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.
Learn more about how to make positive transformations in your neighborhood.
Come together and figure a way to make Upper Manhattan safer for all the residents who live there!
Westchester Avenue is too dangerous for walking and biking. Join Bronx activists to chat up passerby about this dangerous street.
Learn as a family how to spot and identify our feathered neighbors in their natural surroundings.
This program will explore how the integration of urban planning, infrastructure and new technologies is redefining not only how cities cope with climate change, but also how they improve conditions of human life.
GreenRoofNYCAre you a private property owner interested in building your own roof top garden, or helping the city in it's efforts to keep our city cleaner and greener? The New York City Department of Environmental Protection offers a grant program for private property owners to do just this. To learn more about this workshop, and workshops like it click here.
Come to meet fellow Bronx advocates and get involved in campaigns for safer street at the neighborhood level.
Celebrate the 44th anniversary of Earth Day in New York City in 2014!
Join NYC Green Thumb to learn about different kinds of SIPs and to help us construct SIPs for the City Hall garden!
Meet up with other T.A. supporting Staten Islanders as we plan social events, outreach, and advocacy for the greater good of the island!
Get a free cup of joe and join activists fighting for safer streets all over NYC!
The Committee on Global Thought is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to developing the necessary concepts and methodologies to interpret globality and globalization. This fifth annual…
Join Think Act Change NYC for a screening of the new documentary GROWING CITIES and re-imagine your urban space.
NYC Parks Green Thumb will go over proper garden behavior and stewardship practices with hands-on demonstrations.
Naturalist Gabriel Willow contributes his extensive knowledge of diverse bird species and their behavior on these captivating walks through the gardens and woodlands.
Start your spring cleaning by dropping off your unwanted or broken electronics during our spring e-waste collection event on the Upper West Side.
Start your spring cleaning by dropping off your unwanted or broken electronics during our spring e-waste collection event on the Upper West Side.
Join NYC Parks Green Thumb at the Grow to Learn Demonstration Garden as they direct seed some cool season veggies and transplant their early starts!
Speak up for pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements along the Western segment of Atlantic Avenue!
Join NYC Parks Green Thumb as they direct seed some cool season veggies and transplant their early starts!
Anne Simpson's discussion will consider the extent to which the pursuit of profit from investments accords with environmental, social, and governance concerns.
Attend this hands-on workshop and learn how to use worms to turn your kitchen scraps into a rich organic fertilizer!
Andrew Winston will explore "the mega challenges of climate change, scarcity, and radical transparency that threaten our ability to run an expanding global economy and that are profoundly changing business as usual."
Pitch in and help with garden expansion & lot clearing at Smiling Hogshead Ranch.
This talk will explain why climate change must be understood essentially as a civilization challenging ethical problem: climate change.
Celebrate the 44th anniversary of Earth Day in New York City in 2014!
This two-day event will engage advocates, policy makers and scholars in New York City land policy workshops, discussions focusing the history of vacant land in New York City and a symposium in which land transformation facilitators from around the world will share best practices.
Come celebrate Earth Day on a Polar Bear Dance Ride with Time's Up!
There is no issue more urgent than climate change, yet government, corporations, and the public are reluctant to change. The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School for Public Research presents the 31st Social Research conference, "Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren't We?.
Come to the largest and longest-running sustainability event in the country, and celebrate Earth Month with the best in green living.
Come and meet activists from all five boroughs leading the charge for safer streets and Vision Zero!
Join NYC Parks in protecting and stabilizing new dunes in Rockaway.
The struggle for advancement in environmental protection is complicated by the emergence of competing narratives each tied to a set of closely held values and beliefs. What are these underlying values, and how can we enter into discussions with one another and seek common ground without sacrificing our highest ideals?
Columbia's Sustainability Media Lab is excited to present a panel discussion on sustainable food. A panel of experts from a diverse range of organizations will share their insights on how we can eat well and more sustainably.
This is an opportunity for Grow to Learn Schools to pick up two flats each of mixed vegetable, herb, and flower starts
Join the Prospect Park Alliance to see some of the dazzling birds that visit the park before flying to northern breeding grounds. Led by the Brooklyn Bird Club.
Professor David Goldberg explains an option for the secure capture of CO2 in vast geological repositories that could mitigate carbon release to the environment for many centuries, well away from material and human risks.
