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Frack Off!

ICP Museum 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States

There are 500,000 active gas wells in the U.S. Each well can be fracked 18 times. Approximately 40,000 gallons of chemicals are used per fracturing, chemicals that include toxins and carcinogens like lead, mercury, hydrochloric acid, and formaldehyde.

In sum: 72 trillion gallons of water and 360 billion gallons of chemicals are needed to run our current gas wells.

Panelists discuss the environmental impacts of fracking and efforts to resist the industry at local and national levels.

$10 – $15

A Talk with R. Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic Institute, Germany, and Ecologic Institute, United States

Urban Future Lab 15 MetroTech, 19th Floor , Brooklyn, NY, United States

Active in the international and European dimensions of environment and resources, climate and energy, and sustainable development policies for 25 years, R. Andreas Kraemer has been Director of Ecologic Institute since its foundation in 1995. In April 2008, he became chairman of the Ecologic Institute in Washington DC.

Gain insight into the world of environmental policy!

Event organized by Urban Future Lab and NYC ACRE.

Free

Freshkills Park: A Model for New York Recycling and Environmental Justice

National Academy Museum 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Co-organized by the National Academy and CIVITAS, Art, Design and the Urban Environment is a discussion series that explores how artists and architects—as well as activists, grassroots organizers, scientists, urban planners, and city agencies—can work together to improve urban environments in meaningful ways.

This discussion will focus on Freshkills Park as A Model for New York Recycling & Environmental Justice.

Free

Make Your Own Household Cleaner

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

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

Meet and Greet with Environmental Education Advocacy Council

Pioneers Bar 138 West 29th Street, New York, NY, United States

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.

Free

AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)

The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY, United States

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

AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)

The New School, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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

New York City Safe Energy Coalition Meeting

New York Environmental and Justice Law Project Suite 701, 11 Park Place , New York, NY, United States

NYCSEC, New York City Safe Energy Coalition, is devoted to closing Indian Point and more. Started by Ken Gale to address three related issues: closing Indian Point, growing the renewable energy industry, and making NYC buildings more efficient.

The group meets the first and third Thursday of every month. at 6:30 pm for a potluck and 7:00 pm sharp for the meeting.

Free

Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Ethical Issues in Responding to a Global Disease Crisis – Ebola and Beyond

Columbia University Morningside Campus Alfred J. Lerner Hall, Satow Room 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This session explores the ethical issues in dealing with infectious disease threats in a global environment. Issues from the current Ebola crisis are explored to understand the nature of these issues, and to generate lessons to guide future responses.

Free

From the Right to Light to the Right Lights

The New School, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In this public program, speakers will present lighting design work for public interest that range from ongoing projects in informal settlements in Haiti to participatory workshops in low-income housing environments.

In a panel following the presentations, speakers will debate the role that socially-engaged lighting design practices play and how lighting education can support a stronger social culture in practice and discourse in the field of lighting design

Free

Oysters: A History of Limits and Possibilities

Threes Brewing 333 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

This spring season the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is hosting a 4-part series examining the theme "Living Things in an Urban Ecosystem", where invited panelists bring their perspectives on the living infrastructure of New York City, provoking questions about our human and environmental relationships within an urban environment.

Free

Our Land: Local Action, Global Impact

Fashion Institute of Technology Seventh Avenue at 27 Street , New York, NY, United States

FIT’s Ninth Annual FIT Sustainable Business and Design Conference.

This conference is free and open to the public.

Free