Diogenes searches for answers from Google
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.”
Young people mobilizing for climate justice
Climate change mobilizes youth activism in NYC’s most vulnerable communities
Book review: The City and The Coming Climate
New York has persevered through two heat waves so far in summer 2013, including a day that broke the Con Ed record for peak energy use. When will we experience the next heat wave and how bad will it be?
Political, economic repercussions of Obama’s climate change plan
The president wants everyone to be a climate change communicator.
Incredible green roof on P.S. 41
Kids at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village now have a green roof to use as a learning lab — and the school saves energy too.
International Research Institute for Climate & Society And Climate Forecast Briefings
The Climate Forecast Briefing will present the current and predicted ENSO status, the Climate Predictions for the upcoming months, and a discussion on the verifications…
Climate Institute CEO John Topping optimistic about changing climate
Can we “slow climate change until it is within the capacity of natural ecosystems and humans to adapt”?
View the Solar Impulse Plane at JFK International Airport
Solar Impulse – the solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg – has successfully landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International…
Cool Biz Thursdays: Green Business Outreach Volunteer Opportunity
The Human Impacts Institute (HII) is engaging businesses and consumers to reduce their energy waste and harmful emissions into NYC air, and protect…
Green Series: The Billion Oyster Project
Urban Assembly New York Harbor School leads the effort to cultivate the most natural ecosystem engineer: oysters
We could really use some faster trees…
In his recent lecture, Dr. Wallace Broecker outlines carbon capture as our most promising option…
Summer program at HSBC children’s garden at Queens Botanical Garden (every Monday – Thursday)
Photo credit: www.queensbotanical.org Come to the summer program at HSBC children’s garden at Queens Botanical Garden to let your children participate in a practical,…
Women in Green, Pecha Kucha Forum
This June Forum where several established “women in green” will take the stage to talk about the myriad paths that lead them to where they are now in the sustainable…
Kim Stanley Robinson: utopia and how to get there
According to writer Kim Stanley Robinson, we must abandon the ‘middle way’ of coping with crisis, and understand that utopia is possible. But how?
Art and Science’s Responses to Climate Change
Artist-engineer Natalie Jeremijenko and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt will discuss art and science’s responses to climate change at MoMA PS1.
New York Grand Opera cancelled because of climate change
In an age of unpredictable weather patterns – how will public art and performance communities adapt to environmental changes?