Sustainability Working Group Meeting
350.org has a Sustainability Working Group that meets every second Wednesday of the month in room #508. Please join us! This week they will be organizing…
Rebuild by Design and Seaport City: NYC’s coastal future takes shape
Rebuild by Design is an on-going search for policy-based solutions for protecting New York, and other vulnerable coastal cities. It’s no surprise that the finalists of the Rebuild by Design competition proposed projects for storm protection that reflect the New York ideals of creativity and practicality.
The New York Conference on Water
The New York Conference on Water will explore what New Yorkers can do to preserve and protect this precious resource.
Studying climate change in Central Park
To a New Yorker, trying to explain the value of Central Park is a bit like trying to explain the value of the air we breathe, but a Columbia report makes a more practical list of the park’s many benefits.
The business case for fast action on climate
This morning the Risky Business project released, “A Climate Risk Assessment For the United States.” The group formed to evaluate the economic risks of climate change in the United States and found that they are both immediate and immense.
Seeking individual responsibility, Part 2: Balance
Some advocates aren’t waiting for regulations to change their behavior, and are doing it themselves.
The power of local governments to plan for climate change
In a country where the president has been forced to work around Congress on climate strategy, the onus may be on local governments to take the challenge of long-term climate planning into their own hands. And local governments around the U.S. and the globe seem to be attempting just that, according to the results of the Urban Climate Change Governance Survey.
An alternative to cap and trade for the Clean Power Plan
Tomorrow Obama will announce a new plan to reduce greenhouse gases. One way that states might meet their expected emission limits is to implement fee-and-dividend policies.
Seeking individual responsibility, Part I: Prioritize
New technology won’t be ready fast enough to solve climate change. We also need to reduce our individual demand for energy.
Bob Inglis: can one man restart our climate politics?
Progress on climate change in the U.S. is paralyzed by the now-historic level of polarization between Republicans and Democrats, and by the way overt…
The Architectural League Prize Night and Exhibition
Attend an exhibition of the work of and lectures by the winners of this year’s Architectural League Prize.
Reimagining the city’s edge
New waterfront projects lead the way in mitigating the risks of climate change and building coastal resiliency.
The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer and More Open World
Andrew Winston will explore “the mega challenges of climate change, scarcity, and radical transparency that threaten our ability to run an expanding global economy and that are profoundly changing business as usual.”
Sunday Meeting – A Status Report on Civilization’s Most Challenging Ethical Problem: Climate Change
This talk will explain why climate change must be understood essentially as a civilization challenging ethical problem: climate change.
Looking deep into the future of Manhattan
Eric Sanderson’s new interactive urban design website, Mannahatta2409.org, challenges users to see the natural landscape that is still possible within the city.
LDEO Spring Public Lecture Series: Ocean Acidification and Climate Change
The Earth Institute’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Spring Public Lectures presents, “Ocean acidification and climate change,” with Brbel Hnisch, Associate Professor.
Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren’t We?
There is no issue more urgent than climate change, yet government, corporations, and the public are reluctant to change. The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School for Public Research presents the 31st Social Research conference, “Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren’t We?.
The jetstream and the potholes
The country is in a deep freeze today, but in NYC it’s the yo-yoing temperatures that stand out. Meterologists wonder if a stuttering jet stream, caused by declining Arctic sea ice, is behind the swings.