This seminar features Leon G. Billings and Thomas C. Jorling, two senior staff members who led the Senate environment subcommittee which originated and developed major environmental legislation in the 1970s, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Superfund Act.
Learn about the process that led to these seminal laws from the writers of the legislation themselves!
Come join Loomstate, Lower East Side Ecology Center, and Open Source Landscape and help build a bio-swale at Catherine Slip to create more permeable surfaces in the city and clean the water the enters our waterways.
Make way for the High Line’s newest addition: a floating park at the Spur.
Typhoon Haiyan is a glimpse of what a densely populated world colliding with a radically changing climate system could look like.
A sailboat, filled with local produce and other goods, sails from Vermont to New York City, delivering its Northeast Kingdom bounty along the way.
Find out how to bring play streets, speed cameras for school zones and other safety improvements to your neighborhood, and take the first steps to implement them
As a bustling community attached to the massive built environment of the city, it was easy to overlook how vulnerable Coney Island and the neighborhoods around it have always been to the full force of the Atlantic.
Anniversary events and actions, hosted by Occupy Sandy and many others, are free and all are welcome.
Neighborhood Leadership Institute: Group Structure Saturday, October 19 | 11:00am-2:00pm Downtown Manhattan Build and maintain an effective neighborhood association or community group. Workshops are for…
Bring neighbors together to work on issues that matter to you! Workshops are for volunteer-led groups and individuals interested in working on community improvement projects.…
It is important to consider not just the ecological components of sustainability, but also the social ones.
Sandy-affected New Yorkers march to City Hall to put pressure on mayoral candidates to commit to an equitable rebuilding of the city
Public critiques and counter-campaigns have drawn attention to Google’s corporate slogan “Don’t be evil,” pointing out their hypocrisy and subverting the slogan with the protest rally: “Don’t fund evil.”
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Featuring Nepo Soteri: a guitarist, singer and composer who survived the Rwandan civil war. His music is directly influenced by the raw rhythms and stylized sounds unique to such African countries as Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia, from which spring the roots of American jazz.