Neighborhood Leadership Institute: Group Structure Saturday, October 19 | 11:00am-2:00pm Downtown Manhattan Build and maintain an effective neighborhood association or community group. Workshops are for…
Find out how to bring play streets, speed cameras for school zones and other safety improvements to your neighborhood, and take the first steps to implement them
Música para todos!
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.
Free movie screening and discussion about climate resilience at Coffeed cafe.
This seminar features Leon G. Billings and Thomas C. Jorling, two senior staff members who led the Senate environment subcommittee which originated and developed major environmental legislation in the 1970s, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Superfund Act.
Learn about the process that led to these seminal laws from the writers of the legislation themselves!
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?
This class will focus on citizen participation in the Superfund process and conclude with a discussion of current and future sites in the five boroughs.
Our discussion will survey the key findings from the NPCC report and how they are currently being integrated into the work of NYC ORR and addressed in policy agendas dealing with climate resiliency and public health.
The annual Global Citizen Festival tackles that effort, bringing together some of music's biggest stars—Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Pearl Jam and many more are on this year's bill—to raise awareness around the fight against poverty, hunger and climate change throughout the world.
The organizers of the People’s Climate March (now the People’s Climate Movement) are calling for a National Day of Action this October 14 to demand bold action on climate change.
Our People's Climate Movement Pop-Up at the Flatiron Plaza will be a central location where people can show their support for climate action in 60 seconds or less.
The Gowanus Canal Conservancy Clean and Green Program is a volunteer-based program that meets on Saturdays or Sundays from March to November to make the canal and its watershed more open, clean, and alive.
Join us as we examine the role of urban young people in promoting policy action on climate change. During this interactive event we will discuss how children and youth can and are providing solutions for greater resilience in the urban environment as well as fostering social inclusion.