Riding the Waves Exhibit
The new Lenape Gallery at Conference House Park Visitor Center presents Riding the Waves, a new exhibit of the Museum of Maritime Navigation and Communication.
Free
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Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Join 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.
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Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide
Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide
With 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
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Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution
Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution
Hunter 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
3 events,
596 Acres presents Reviewing Renewal on the Queens Museum Panorama
596 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
Washed Up Transforming a Trashed Landscape Alejandro Duran
Washed Up is an ongoing project by Mexican-born, New York-based artist Alejandro Durán that addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve.
Come see how this Alejandro Durán addresses these issues through art!
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Explore Dead Horse Bay, New York’s Best Kept Secret
Explore Dead Horse Bay, New York’s Best Kept Secret
Hike 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
3 events,
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Book Launch: Sustainability Policy – Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy
Book Launch: Sustainability Policy – Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy
The Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University present a book launch, Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy. Authors Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, and Alison Miller will be discussing their new book, published by Jossey-Bass in January 2015.
Free
4 events,
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The Field of Sustainable Finance: Foundations and Future Growth
The Field of Sustainable Finance: Foundations and Future Growth
At the nexus of sustainability and management is the growing field of Sustainable Finance an interdisciplinary field with elements of corporate sustainability and financial principles including green accounting and carbon accounting, environmental markets, project finance, asset management and sustainable investment, and the impacts of environmental issues on capital markets.
A mix of academics and practitioners will discuss how sustainable finance has developed and evolved as a field. They'll debate what we mean by sustainable finance itself and explore the key players and drivers, as well as what it will look like in the future.
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The High Line as Urban Accelerator: A Conversation
The High Line as Urban Accelerator: A Conversation
The High Line has stimulated tremendous growth in its Chelsea neighborhood and sparked new thinking about multi-use, shared public spaces.
Join High Line co-founder Joshua David for a conversation with architectural critic Paul Goldberger and Vishaan Chakrabarti of SHoP Architects about the impact of this repurposed elevated rail line on the city and its economy.
$16
4 events,
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Choices Conference: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 1
Choices Conference: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 1
Interested in sustainable business strategies in New York City?
Join the Sustainable Cities Club of The New School and business leaders of Wyndham hotels, Jones Lang Lasalle, Telepan restaurant and Helpsy fashion to discuss where New York City stands as a sustainable city, what opportunities exist to fill a market demand and how we form municipal policies to increase the City’s sustainability and resiliency.
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Alligators in the Sewer Day with screening of Cast in India
Alligators in the Sewer Day with screening of Cast in India
Celebrate Alligators in the Sewers Day, an unofficial annual holiday that Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione initiated four years ago to mark the birth of one of New York City's greatest true urban legends.
Join NYC H2O for an afternoon of fun-filled festivities including a screening of the documentary Cast in India about the making of manhole covers. Michael Miscione will recount the 1935 sighting and briefly discuss other great NYC urban legends -- some true, some not.
Free
4 events,
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Choices: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 2
Choices: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 2
Interested in sustainable business strategies in New York City?
Join the Sustainable Cities Club of The New School and business leaders of Wyndham hotels, Jones Lang Lasalle, Telepan restaurant and Heplsy fashion to discuss where New York City stands as a sustainable city, what opportunities exist to fill a market demand and how we form municipal policies to increase the City’s sustainability and resiliency.
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Inspirations for the Design of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Inspirations for the Design of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Leading designer of Brooklyn Bridge Park shares inspirations in this free talk!
Free
3 events,
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Nature’s Workshop: Weather Exploration and Monitoring
Nature’s Workshop: Weather Exploration and Monitoring
A family-friendly educational event in Marine Park.
Free
2 events,
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The Brooklyn Waterfront: Past and Present
The Brooklyn Waterfront: Past and Present
In this class at the Brooklyn Brainery, the development, decline, and rebirth of the Brooklyn waterfront, from 19th century port to 21st century playground.
$10
3 events,
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The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges
The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization and the American Institute for Architecture New York Chapter are co-organizing a high-level discussion, which will cover key developments in the area of sustainable urbanization, entitled “The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges”.
This event will bring together high-level experts and representatives from national and local governments, non-governmental organizations, academia, foundations and industry.
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Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul
Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul
The Earth Institute presents Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul, with author and journalist, Elizabeth L. Cline.
The hastening speed and obsolescence of modern consumer goods--expressed in its most extreme form within fast fashion--has fundamentally reshaped society, culture, economics, and ultimately our sense of selves.
Free
2 events,
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A History of New York City Transportation – From Horsecars to Helicopters
A History of New York City Transportation – From Horsecars to Helicopters
By some estimates, for every New Yorker you see walking around on the streets, there’s one New Yorker underground, riding the train. That’s right - 1/2 of New York’s population is on some form of public transportation at any given moment.
This class covers NYC transportation from the early days, when the best you could hope for was a mud-spattered omnibus ride, through the first steam-powered elevated railroads, all the way up to the Pan Am building helicopter shuttle.
$10
4 events,
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Make Your Own Household Cleaner
Make Your Own Household Cleaner
There are plenty of reasons why making your own surface cleaner is an excellent idea.
Whether you're concerned about saving money, the environment, or your health, this simple DIY project will make a difference!
$13
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Freshkills Park Series: Landfill Infrastructure
Freshkills Park Series: Landfill Infrastructure
The ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City, using state of the art ecological restoration techniques in an extraordinary setting for recreation, public art, and environmental investigation.
Learn more about the infrastructure that makes the park possible from Laura Truettner, Manager for Park Development.
$8
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The History of the Gowanus Canal
The History of the Gowanus Canal
Nestled between the hip and hardly inexpensive neighborhoods Park Slope and Carroll Gardens is the Gowanus Canal: Brooklyn’s most infamous toxic waste site.
This class if for anyone who’s read about the Gowanus but wants to know more about how it got there, why its so polluted, and why people feel so compelled by it.
$10
4 events,
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Food For Thought
Food For Thought
In a world that continues to struggle with agricultural challenges to support the global population, developing sustainable solutions for crop production, agricultural resource use, access to food, and food waste is critical.
Come hear from the New York Area Sustainability Group's expert speakers as they point out problems in our food system, and discuss the changes that need to take place to solve these issues.
$12
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Meet and Greet with Environmental Education Advocacy Council
Meet and Greet with Environmental Education Advocacy Council
Come out to meet Environmental Education Advocacy Cuncil’s Steering Committee Officers, network with EEAC members representing environmental and science education organizations across NYC, and find out how to become a Steering Committee Officer!
Pioneers Bar has 19 yummy beers on tap, jumbo Connect Four, and life-size Jenga! EEAC will provide snacks for everyone.
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February Forum: Sustainable Transportation
February Forum: Sustainable Transportation
A sustainable transportation system is one that is accessible, safe, environmentally-friendly, affordable, and can meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs.
Come learn more about sustainable transportation at this free forum organized by GreenHomeNYC!
Free
2 events,
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Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen, China
Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen, China
Learn more about the history and space of "urban villages" in Shenzhen, China.
Free
2 events,
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Transition Neighborhoods Strategy Session
Transition Neighborhoods Strategy Session
Make your neighborhood more sustainable and resilient with Transition Neighborhoods (TN).
Learn how!
Free
2 events,
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Gotham: New York City’s Best Writers: Richard Ford
Gotham: New York City’s Best Writers: Richard Ford
Hear Richard Ford speak on "Let Me Be Frank with You," a story of reconciliation after Hurricane Sandy.
Free
2 events,
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Winter Tree Identification
Winter Tree Identification
Add a bit of excitement and arboreal enjoyment to your winter walks with a lesson in tree identification! Look closely at the tree's wintry bits: buds, bark, and fruiting bodies and your snowy sojourns will be evermore enchanting.
$13
6 events,
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New York University Urban Seminar Series: Donald Davis on The Spatial and Social Frictions in the City
New York University Urban Seminar Series: Donald Davis on The Spatial and Social Frictions in the City
Columbia professor of Economics Donald Davis will discuss spatial and social frictions in the city.
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Urban Forest Protection in New York City
Urban Forest Protection in New York City
A lecture through Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation about urban forest protection and restoration in New York City given by Timon McPhearson.
Free
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Sustainability Practice Network ‘De Blasio Administration: Freshman Year Report Card’ Panel Discussion
Sustainability Practice Network ‘De Blasio Administration: Freshman Year Report Card’ Panel Discussion
A year ago, Bill de Blasio won the NYC mayoral election handily with an impressive campaign touting progressive change. Appealing to a shrinking middle class, his platform promised to address income disparity, universal pre-K, more affordable housing, and build on his predecessor’s environmental programs.
Join the Sustainability Practice Network's panel of experts to discuss these realities and look ahead to year two of Mayor de Blasio’s administration.
Free
4 events,
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Inwood’s Changing Forest: Tree Inventory, Social and Ecological Assessment
Inwood’s Changing Forest: Tree Inventory, Social and Ecological Assessment
Speakers from the NAC, DPR and FS will present preliminary results from the Inwood Hill Park project at the Payson Center.
The presentation will include maps and measurements on the trees that have been surveyed for the project thus far, as well as an overview of social and ecological data collection citywide, with an emphasis on Inwood Hill Park’s unique natural areas.
In addition, preliminary data from the ongoing four-season survey of park users will be presented.
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Resilient New York: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Face of Climate Change
Resilient New York: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Face of Climate Change
Learn how New York City has implemented and planned solutions to a post-Sandy society through urban planning and architecture.
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Made in New York City: The Reinvention of Local Manufacturing
Made in New York City: The Reinvention of Local Manufacturing
For decades, American and urban manufacturing charted a steep decline, a byproduct of globalization and outsourcing. Today, however, manufacturing is returning to our shores and entering a renaissance in major cities.
Come learn about what's being made in NYC today and what you can do to support local manufacturing. We'll cover industrial policy, business incubators, R&D, hybrid manufacturing, and the craft food movement, among other highlights.
$10
4 events,
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Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Join 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.
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Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel
Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel
The eight futuristic, stainless steel-clad digester eggs at Brooklyn's Newtown Creek wastewater plant are designed to process as much as 1.5 million gallons of waste every day.
Join the Urban Green Council at this exciting event to learn more about the eggs, results from the plant's recently completed food waste pilot program, and the three-year full-scale demonstration project that will be launching there soon.
$10 – $15
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Brutal! Paul Rudolph’s Postwar New York Interiors: A Conversation with Timothy M. Rohan and Donald Albrecht
Brutal! Paul Rudolph’s Postwar New York Interiors: A Conversation with Timothy M. Rohan and Donald Albrecht
Learn more about architect Paul Rudolph and his unconventional methods evident in his apartment interiors of the late twentieth century. Professor Timothy M. Rohan of University of Massuchussets will lead the discussion.
$16
3 events,
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From ‘Improvement’ to ‘Slum Rehabilitation’: Urban expansion and the fates of cooperative housing in Bombay
From ‘Improvement’ to ‘Slum Rehabilitation’: Urban expansion and the fates of cooperative housing in Bombay
A lecture on Bombay slub rehabilitation and the intersection of the built environment and urban identities given by Professor Nikhil Rao of Wellesley College.
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AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)
What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.
In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draws inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.
Free
2 events,
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AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)
What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.
In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.
On February 27 & 28, 2015, imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination.
Free
3 events,
Patterns of Interest: Photography by Stephen Mallon
The Kimmel Galleries of New York University are pleased to present Patterns of Interest: Photography by Stephen Mallon, Included in this exhibit are 20 photographic works by artist Stephen Mallon, whose work bridges the gap between fine art and photojournalism.
Free
Remembering Yesterday: Queens and Its World’s Fairs
Remembering is both a collective and a personal activity. In this exhibition, both are on display in relation to two World’s Fairs that took place in Flushing, Queens in 1939/40 and 1964/65.
Within this exhibition, collective memory is represented by shared experiences of the Fairs and personal memory by the memorabilia drawn from the collections of people who attended and fondly recall the Fairs.
Open Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 2:30 – 4:30 pm. Through May 31, 2015.
$3.00
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The World’s Park Community Forum 1
The World’s Park Community Forum 1
Do you want to participate in creative improvements to Flushing Meadows Corona Park?
Anyone interested in the future of Flushing Meadows Corona Park is invited to come to the Queens Museum for presentations as well as activities for all ages that will invite community members to thoughtfully engage with, and contribute, bold ideas for improving the access, circulation, and overall connectivity of the park with its surrounding communities.
Free