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Food Waste: Where Are We Now?

Brooklyn Foodworks 630 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Food Waste has been a part of our vocabulary for several years now and we have reached momentum in the space. Come and join the dialogue with a leader in sustainability, a chef and a voice for the food insecure. We promise a lively discussion, thought provoking ideas and solutions to take back to your own kitchens.

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Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water

Columbia Law Schoool Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106, New York, NY, United States

Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city's people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.

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Can Virtual Reality Foster Global Citizenship?

Civic Hall 156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor, New York, NY, United States

2016 has been heralded as the “year of virtual reality” but few people know about its potential outside of a futuristic gaming technology. However, a market-driven…

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Experience Creative Climate Awards

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office 1 E 42nd St., New York, NY, United States

Join us for our sixth Creative Climate Awards, an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works. Our Creative Climate Awards program uses creativity to share knowledge, broaden the climate conversation, educate, and incite action.

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Creative Climate Awards Opening

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office 1 E 42nd St., New York, NY, United States

The Opening will feature interactive and performance art pieces done by submitting artists Vangeline Dance Theater, Mechthild Schmidt Feist, and Danielle Boudrand.

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Urban Sustainability Day!

Common Ground Compost East 11th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A, New York, NY, United States

Get your “hands dirty” and join us outdoors at the East Side Outside Garden with Common Ground Compost to prepare the urban garden for the fall and to learn about their business’ environmental sustainability based model.

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Film: Merchants of Doubt

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office 1 E 42nd St., New York, NY, United States

Start the night with "Urban Tumbleweed", a live performance from the Vanessa Long Dance Company. Stay for a screening of documentary, Merchants of Doubt.

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Digital and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change

Civic Hall 156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor, New York, NY, United States

As global institutions like the United Nations are turning their attention to human rights and climate change, local groups have been fostering the links between natural environments and digital environments for more than a decade.

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Environmental Law: Time to Reboot by James Gustave Speth

Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104 435 West 116th Street

James Gustave Speth is co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was a professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council…

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Central Park Moonlight Ride

Columbus Circle 59th St. and Central Park West, New York

A fun, relaxing auto-free ride through Central Park highlighting its beautiful ponds, waterways, vistas, and structures.

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Central Park Youth Basketball Clinics

North Meadow Recreation Center

Take your kids outside to enjoy the Park and to learn and enhance their athletic skills through small group instruction and competitive games in these…

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Harlem Harvest Festival

A. Philip Randolph Square St. Nicholas Avenue btwn 116th Street and 117th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join the community at Harlem Park to Park for day-long Harlem Harvest Festival! The event is an urban interpretation of a traditional “state fair” with fresh produce, breweries, prepared foods and harvest specialties.

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