The New School Divested, Now What?
Join the ACIR (Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility) at The New School, as they host a panel on how to increase the impact of The New School’s commitment to divest from fossil fuels!
Joel Towers
“We’re educating students who will go out into the world and have 60 years or more of productive and engaged life. What is the world going to be like 60 years from now?”
Ride for Climate presentation with David Kroodsma
Former Stanford climate change researcher David Kroodsma has bicycled from California to the southern tip of South America, from Turkey to the east coast of China, and across the U.S. twice.
Join David for a slideshow of his best photos and videos!
Earth2Class Workshop: The Source and Solution to Groundwater Arsenic Contamination
E2C is a unique science/math/technology resource for K-12 teachers, students, the general public, and geoscientists. It is a collaboration among researchers and an Earth Science educator at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; technology integration specialists from Colégio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brasil; and classroom teachers from New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere. It centers around Saturday Workshops for Educators held at Columbia’s Lamont Campus in Palisades N.Y.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Roots of Resilience
In keeping with the notion of sankofa—remembering the past in order to move forward—this year’s theme, “Roots of Resilience,” will examine the ways in which sustainability is tradition, not trend.
Earth2Class Workshop: New Insights on Ocean Acidification
Earth2Class presents “New Insights on Ocean Acidification”, with Taro Takahashi,Taro Takahashi, Ewing Lamont Research Professor, Division of Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute; Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Columbia University.
The State of Sustainability Policy: Progress and Opportunity
The technological, social, cultural, economic and political transition to a sustainable economy has begun, and public policy is playing a critical role in this transition.
Practitioners from the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and the U.S. federal government will join experts from the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs to discuss the many ways that federal and local governments can support a transition to a sustainable economy based on renewable resources.
A new book about what we don’t know
Gernot Wagner is an economist who focuses on what he doesn’t know. Tail events, the black swans, the unknown unknowns. The future.
Transition Neighborhoods Strategy Session
Make your neighborhood more sustainable and resilient with Transition Neighborhoods (TN).
Learn how!
Exploring Creative Community Resilience
Climate-adapted neighbourhoods. Green boulevards. Community food forests.
Around the world, more and more cities are committing to ambitious projects aimed at building resilience in light of climate change.
On February 24, 2015 we will convene at The New School to draw from the experiences of grassroots organizers, co-design champions, urban planning professionals, storytellers and representatives from many other fields of social innovation (that’s you!) to explore how to make resilience a collaborative and inclusive process of “civic imagination”.
How can global finance…help the globe?
Can global finance rapidly shift gears to trigger a new wave of sustainable investing?
Countdown to Paris: Update on Global Climate Treaty Negotiations
In the six months since the People’s Climate March in NYC, UN negotiators have been working on proposals for the global climate treaty conference that will take place in Paris in December 2015. Please join 350NYC and the NY Society for Ethical Culture for an evening of discussion among climate leaders, including attendees at the preliminary talks in Lima and Geneva.
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)
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.
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)
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.
Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel
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.
The Field of Sustainable Finance: Foundations and Future Growth
At the nexus of sustainability and management is the growing field of Sustainable Finance an interdisciplinary field with elements of corporate sustainability and financial principles including green accounting and carbon accounting, environmental markets, project finance, asset management and sustainable investment, and the impacts of environmental issues on capital markets.
A mix of academics and practitioners will discuss how sustainable finance has developed and evolved as a field. They’ll debate what we mean by sustainable finance itself and explore the key players and drivers, as well as what it will look like in the future.
Fueling Our Future: Going North: Leadership in the Arctic
The Arctic has grown in importance as a focal point on international security, environmental protection, and climate change, as well as a new frontier for trade, shipping, and resource exploration.
Join CGA Clinical Associate Professor and Academic Director Carolyn Kissane for a conversation on Canadian and U.S. leadership in the Arctic, emerging priorities in the region, and how these developments might affect international energy and environmental policy.
Women, Climate and Cities: : An Intersectional Perspective
This event will focus on women’s role in raising awareness as well as providing solutions to climate change issues specifically within the urban context.
Participants will examine what women have brought to the table in the climate movement as well as the specific benefits of having a gendered approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, namely, in terms of disaster risk recovery, green jobs and urban infrastructure such as public transport.