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Pier 1 Salt Marshes Coastal Cleanup

Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park Old Fulton Street and Furman Street, Brooklyn, United States

  Coastal Cleanup Volunteers give back to the community by helping us remove hundreds of pounds of trash from Pier 1 salt marshes and beaches.…

Free

National Learn-to-Row Day: Free Basic Rowing Lesson

Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY, United States

Join Row New York for National Learn to Row day on June 3, 2017, for a totally free event, and learn the basics of a sport that will stay with you for a lifetime. We’ll introduce you to basic rowing techniques and get you out on the water.

Bonus: explore our beautiful boathouses on tours being offered throughout the day. You can choose from two of our boathouse locations: the Meadow Lake Boathouse in Queens and the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse in Manhattan. Our Queens boathouse invites any person with a disability to join us for adaptive rowing sessions.

Free

Bridge Golf Foundation Water Fair

MIST Harlem 46 W. 116th Street (btwn Lenox Avenue and Fifth Ave.), New York , NY, United States

In partnership with The Eagle Academy, Columbia Water Center, and the physics department at The City College of New York, The Bridge Golf Foundation is…

Free

World Ocean Festival

Gantry Plaza State Park 4-09 47th Road, Long Island City, NY, United States

A public event to #saveourocean! On June 4th, we’re inviting ocean lovers from across the world to join a collective voice standing up for the…

Free

City of Rising Waters: A Symposium

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York

To mark the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy -- a watershed moment for New Yorkers' awareness of the devastating impacts of climate change -- join us for an…

$35 – $40

When the Waters Come, Will Our Cities Survive?

Interface 140 W 30th Street, New York, NY, United States

From Superstorm Sandy to the recent devastating effects of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, natural disasters make it difficult to ignore the rapid changes our…

World Wetlands Day at Seagirt Avenue Wetlands

Beach 6th Street and Seagirt Avenue Beach 6th St & Seagirt Ave, Queens, NY, United States

Join NYC Parks Stewardship as we celebrate World Wetlands Day! Urban wetlands provide a variety of benefits including improved water quality and storm water retention.…

The Future of Domestic Hot Water in NYC

GROHE 160 Fifth Avenue (Entrance on W 21st street) New York, NY 10010, New York City, United States

As buildings in New York City become more reliant on renewable and stored energy, air source heat pump (ASHP) domestic hot water systems will likely…

$15

City Design in Times of Proliferating Informality and Climatological Crisis

The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

This lecture by Alfredo Brillembourg will explore the work of ETH Zurich Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design…

Free

The Future Sea Level in Lower Manhattan

Barclay and Church St. Barclay and Church St. (north of Calatrava/WTC station), New York, NY, United States

Led by Richard Reiss, New York chapter of Citizen's Climate Lobby and City Atlas   The leaders of the New York chapter of Citizen’s Climate…

Plumb Beach Cleanup

Plumb Beach Plumb Beach Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Plumb Beach is part of Gateway National Recreation Area, and is located 3 miles east of Coney Island on Jamaica Bay. Its beautiful and diverse…

Plumb Beach Cleanup

Plumb Beach Plumb Beach Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Bus transportation will be provided from Union Square leaving at 9 am. We will have an optional ecology lesson with a marine biologist after the…