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Watershed Relief Map Presentation

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

New York City hosted the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens. To show off the city's water system that tapped mountain springs as far as 100 miles away, the Cartographic Survey Force, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, constructed a 3-dimensional model of the system out of wood and plaster for @ $100,000 (about $1.5 million in today's dollars).

You can now see the map for yourself and hear about its story from NYC water educator Matt Malina.

Free

Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Mulchfest 2015

The Salt Lot 2 Second Avenue , Brooklyn, NY, United States

Help the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!

Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.

Trash: New York City’s Battle with Garbage

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

This class will trace New York City's protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.

Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!

$10

Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

The Brainery in Prospect Heights 190 Underhill Avenue, 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?

Come learn at this evening class offered at the Brooklyn Brainery!

$10

Washed Up Transforming a Trashed Landscape Alejandro Duran

Hunter College East Harlem Art Gallery 2180 Third Avenue , New York, NY, United States

Washed Up is an ongo­ing project by Mexican-born, New York-based artist Ale­jan­dro Durán that addresses the issue of plas­tic pol­lu­tion mak­ing its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve.

Come see how this Ale­jan­dro Durán addresses these issues through art!

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

Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul

Columbia University Morningside Campus Union Theological Seminary, Room 101 80 Claremont Ave, New York, NY, United States

The Earth Institute presents Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul, with author and journalist, Elizabeth L. Cline.

The hastening speed and obsolescence of modern consumer goods--expressed in its most extreme form within fast fashion--has fundamentally reshaped society, culture, economics, and ultimately our sense of selves.

Free

Freshkills Park Series: Landfill Infrastructure

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

The ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City, using state of the art ecological restoration techniques in an extraordinary setting for recreation, public art, and environmental investigation.

Learn more about the infrastructure that makes the park possible from Laura Truettner, Manager for Park Development.

$8

Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel

The Mohawk Group 71 West 23rd Street (18th Floor), New York, NY, United States

The eight futuristic, stainless steel-clad digester eggs at Brooklyn's Newtown Creek wastewater plant are designed to process as much as 1.5 million gallons of waste every day.

Join the Urban Green Council at this exciting event to learn more about the eggs, results from the plant's recently completed food waste pilot program, and the three-year full-scale demonstration project that will be launching there soon.

$10 – $15

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

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

MoMA’s Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities

The Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY, United States

In 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe.

To engage this international debate, Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises.