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Night Sky: The Moon and Taurid Meteor Shower

Inwood Hill Park 350 Dyckman St, , Manhattan

Our Urban Park Rangers will be your guides to the solar system, discussing the science, history, and folklore of the universe. The Taurid Meteor Shower produces 5-10 meteors per hour. In between, we will use telescopes to explore the night sky.

Free

Waste Not 6: Cyclifiers

Glass Corner, Parsons East Building, Room E206 25 East 13th Street, New York

In this talk, Jan Jongert presents Superuse Studios, developing from a design office using waste flows into a multidisciplinary creative studio exploring the circular economy. He shows how realizing small scale design, buildings, start-ups, collaborative networks, urban plans, and digital tools contribute to the development of a new resource-based design practice.

Free

Who is Responsible for Climate Change? Implications for United Nations Talks, Shareholders, and Liability.

Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104 435 West 116th Street, New York

The question of responsibility for climate change lies at the heart of societal debate over actions to address it. This symposium explores the conceptual territory of climate responsibility, and scientific, legal, ethical and policy bases for assigning responsibility to countries and to other entities - from individuals to emitting industries to the fossil fuel companies at the base of the carbon supply chain whose responsibilities are now being actively debated in shareholder resolutions and calls for institutional divestment.

Free