Watch working G scale model trains make their merry way through an outdoor display that includes a miniature of the World’s Fair Unisphere, presented by the Long Island Garden Railway Society.
Come check out the world’s largest rooftop farm in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard!
Join NYC Green Thumb as they begin construction of a three-bin compost system.
The 2014 World Science Festival will be an exploration of space, art, weather, the brain, the future, and more.
The Children's Festival of Flowers at Jefferson Market Garden will offer free crafts, treats, art projects, and stories.
Join the kayak trip assistant workshop and demonstrate your skills after it!
Brooklyn-based artist Swoon explores social and environmental issues with her signature paper portraits and figurative installations.
At the Harlem Meer in the north of Central Park, the Urban Park Rangers will lead visitors on canoe rides.
A summer benefit party for the Lower East Side Ecology Center in East River Park.
Join sunset yoga at Brooklyn Grange’s Brooklyn Navy Yard farm for some fresh air and loosen up with Sarah Schumann of Prospect Heights’ Shambhala Yoga and Dance Center.
Come join Loomstate, Lower East Side Ecology Center, and Open Source Landscape and help build a bio-swale at Catherine Slip to create more permeable surfaces in the city and clean the water the enters our waterways.
Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future will be hosting a panel and discussion with social innovation experts to directly address sustainability in the context of entrepreneurship.
Come check out the world’s largest rooftop farm in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard!
The Red Hook Food Vendors will open for the 40th year in a row, serving up Mexican, Guatemalan and other Latin American fare at the soccer fields and park on Clinton and Bay Streets in Brooklyn,
A walking tour of the Sherman Creek park led by the New York Restoration Project.
A Union Square Greenmarket event with several visiting food vendors.
On June 7th and 8th, FIGMENT New York will be kicking off another amazing summer of free art and events on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
Discover how to "read" buildings for information about the City's growth and development and look at the city's architecture from a design perspective in this 2-hour walking tour. You'll never walk down the street the same way again!
In this workshop, Liz Spencer of The Dogwood Dyer will cover the basics of the itajime technique, as well as natural dyeing with freshly-harvested, local plants.
Celebrate the 10th birthday of the Greenbelt Nature Center by embarking upon a quest in search of knowledge and fun.
Jim Fischer, a beekeeper the Director of Education of NYC Beekeeping, will be speaking about bees.
The Lower East Side Ecology Center is leading an interactive workshop to teach attendees about the proper care of street trees.
Green Light New York is hosting a panel discussion on our city's lighting systems, regarding the issues of public surveillance and energy consumption.
Revelry By the River is Solar One’s annual Awards Dinner and a celebration of sustainability in New York City. Each year, Revelry honors individuals and companies leading the way in improving New York City’s environmental quality.
Join The Asia Society for an exclusive preview of a yearlong investigation by Mother Jones and Climate Desk into China’s nascent fracking boom, followed by discussion of China’s energy future moderated by Climate Desk producer James West, in conversation with Mother Jones reporter Jaeah Lee, Asia Society’s Orville Schell, energy adviser Ella Chou, and Gasland director Josh Fox.
Queens residents hankering for outdoor exercise classes should head to Socrates Sculpture Park, where on weekends throughout the summer free yoga, Tai Chi, and kayaking and canoeing will be offered.
Courtesy of Madison Square Park Conservancy The Madison Urban Club for Kids (M.U.C.K.) has officially launched! This horticultural workshop series is designed to provide local…
The Red Hook Food Vendors will open for the 40th year in a row, serving up Mexican, Guatemalan and other Latin American fare at the soccer fields and park on Clinton and Bay Streets in Brooklyn,
Join the community-led planting and restoration day on Ruler’s Bar and Blackwall marsh islands in Jamaica Bay.
Energy week is a "for the industry, by the industry" five-day event that creates synergy between the diverse members of the energy sector.
Slow Money NYC will present a workshop about B Corp Certification. "B Corp is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA…
The fascinating story of three landscape designers who transformed the wealth of the Gilded Age into timeless American landscapes and became leading figures in a profession dominated by men.
Judith Enck of the EPA will be discussing President Obama's Climate Action Plan.
Catch an open lecture at Columbia University by Stephen Viederman, an expert on sustainable investing, discussing the role of financial markets in response to climate change.
Come to a celebration of music and summer. As part of Make Music New York, Friends of the High Line will present bluegrass tunes among the tall grass of the park.
GrowNYC's community "swaps" provide the perfect opportunity to find new homes for things you no longer need. Bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing, house wares, games, books, & toys that you no longer need, and take home something new-to-you, free!
Come celebrate Governors Island’s treasures: Common terns and oysters!
This summer, NYC Audubon is offering eco-cruises that will gave great views of such birds as the Black-Crowned Night-Heron, Glossy Ibis, Double-Crested Cormorant, Egret, and many more
Aaron Rose documented a “sun-baked melting pot” of beachgoers of all ages, ethnicities, and walks of life, each one utterly unselfconscious, absorbed in a world of his or her own in Coney Island.
Scarecrow is a new site-specific installation by artist Žilvinas Kempinas and the largest installation in Socrates’ 28-year history that activates the invisible forces of nature.
Attend an exhibition of the work of and lectures by the winners of this year's Architectural League Prize.
An orientation for people who would like to volunteer for GrowNYC's Greenmarkets around the city.
Please join the Emerging Professionals at The New School for their June forum as they discuss SRI with Louis Berger of Washington Square Capital Management and Colm O’Connor of Kleinwort Benson Investors.
Join the AGRION network for a night of mingling, best practice sharing, and hor d’oeuvres.
Come check out the world’s largest rooftop farm in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard!
An orientation for people who will volunteer for GrowNYC's recycling programs.
The Architectural League of New York's 133rd Annual Meeting will feature a tour of Sims Municipal Recycling, Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility.
LUMEN, organized by Staten Island Arts, is not a traditional film festival or gallery art experience. It is a one-day, 6-hour festival that features video and performance art by emerging artists and more established artists at the forefront of their media.
GrowNYC's community "swaps" provide the perfect opportunity to find new homes for things you no longer need. Bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing, house wares, games, books, & toys that you no longer need, and take home something new-to-you, free!
Join North Brooklyn Boat Club this summer for their bi-monthly open paddles where trained guides take participants on short tours to the mouth of the East River.
The streets of New York City are never so festive, outrageous and energized as they are during the annual Pride March.
The Columbia University Graduate Programs in Construction Administration and Sustainability Management and IBC Groups invite you to a lecture/discussion and reception to learn about cool roofing and coating systems.
In celebration of the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the World’s Fairs, Tomorrow’s World will include never before exhibited vintage images from the Parks Photo Archive and private collections that illustrate the dynamic evolution and conversion of a vast industrial wasteland into New York City's fourth largest park.
There is so much to do at Bryant Park, Come visit and find out!
Join 596 Acres and Rockaway Wildfire for a community conversation about how they and you can influence the immediate use and long-term development of vacant public land on Rockaway Peninsula.
Every Saturday until August 30, there will be a bird walk leaving from Van Cortlandt Nature Center. The walks will be guided by NYC Audobon or Urban Park Rangers.
Socrates Sculpture Park presents Eat the Rainbow with GrowNYC Greenmarket. In this interactive (and delicious) workshop, find out how easy and beneficial it is to eat a colorful array of farm fresh produce every day.
Bike the neighborhoods, parks and greenways of the biggest borough in New York City on the Tour de Queens.
Join the Obscura Society for a historic walking tour of Midtown Manhattan's great real estate holdouts and the stories behind the various tenants who stood their ground, refusing to budge.
This Sunday, Time's Up will be host a beach ride! Join us for the leisurely bike ride out to Rockaway Queens Beach (Fort Tilden) to enjoy an endless summer afternoon of swimming and relaxing on the beach.
