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Choices: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 2

The New School Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States

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.

Free

The Brooklyn Waterfront: Past and Present

Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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

Transition Neighborhoods Strategy Session

Friends Meeting House 15 Rutherford Place, 15th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues, New York, NY, United States

Make your neighborhood more sustainable and resilient with Transition Neighborhoods (TN).

Learn how!

Free

Winter Tree Identification

Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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

Exploring Creative Community Resilience

The New School 6 East 16th Street (12th floor), New York, NY, United States

Climate-adapted neighbourhoods. Green boulevards. Community food forests.

Around the world, more and more cities are committing to ambitious projects aimed at building resilience in light of climate change.

On February 24, 2015 we will convene at The New School to draw from the experiences of grassroots organizers, co-design champions, urban planning professionals, storytellers and representatives from many other fields of social innovation (that’s you!) to explore how to make resilience a collaborative and inclusive process of “civic imagination”.

Free

The World’s Park Community Forum 1

Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

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

Women, Climate and Cities: : An Intersectional Perspective

The New School, Orozco Room, Room 712, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street , New York, NY, United States

This event will focus on women’s role in raising awareness as well as providing solutions to climate change issues specifically within the urban context.

Participants will examine what women have brought to the table in the climate movement as well as the specific benefits of having a gendered approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, namely, in terms of disaster risk recovery, green jobs and urban infrastructure such as public transport.

Free

TEDXManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat

TimesCenter 242 W 41st Street, New York, NY, United States

Union Square Hospitality Group CEO and Founder Danny Meyer and Food Tank co-Founder and President Danielle Nierenberg are among those who will take the stage at TEDxManhattan, “Changing the Way We Eat,” on March 7, 2015, in New York City.

With an exciting roster of experts and innovators, TEDxManhattan raises public awareness about critical issues facing the food system while fostering collaboration within the food movement.

In order to be inclusive, TEDxManhattan also invites communities, organizations, and individuals to organize viewing parties worldwide for the live webcast of this one-day TEDx event!

Free

Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

Brooklyn Brainery 190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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.

$10

United Nations Habitat: the City We Need

Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium United Nations Plaza First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY, United States

How do we create the City We Need for the future where women and girls will reach their potential and realize their human rights?

Free