Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city’s people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.
In 2012, NY/NJ Baykeepeer established the EcoVolunteer program, designed to introduce adult volunteers to the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary through education, hands-on research and restoration experiences. Currently, our EcoVolunteers assist with monitoring oysters in the Bronx River at Soundview Park and also with salt marsh restoration and living shorelines in Freshkills Park on Staten Island.
‘2016 marks the point where we realize that climate change is deeply intertwined with problems like poverty, inequality, and the long-term sustainability of the planet.’
The March for a Clean Energy Revolution will be a peaceful action expressing our power through our voices, presence, and creativity. We will demonstrate the…
New York has been hit with a number of catastrophic events over the past 15 years, but the city has been facing and responding to disasters for the past 150 years. Join the Museum’s curatorial and collections team to learn about historic events like the Blizzard of 1888, Hurricane of 1938, and the 1965 Blackout and their impact on the development of transportation infrastructure.
Explore how cities can be both a solution for population increase and global warming by taking a look at urban areas all over the world.
Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions, presented by Gathr.
The planetary crisis today cannot be adequately understood as a conflict of “humans” and “nature.” Learn how the making of planetary crisis is rooted in capitalism’s peculiar way of organizing nature, one committed to “putting nature to work” for free or low cost.
How can art-making facilitate environmental and social awareness? Mindfulness and creative exploration of our surroundings can help to ground us within our locational context as individuals, and help clarify the ways in which we affect our surroundings, and how our surroundings affect us.
Please join us for the Civic Art Lab 2016 opening event and an evening featuring talks by artists/sustainability professionals Grace Johnson and Chloe Holden.
Come enjoy Civic Art Lab 2016’s opening event, featuring talks by artists and sustainability professionals Chloe Holden and Grace Johnson.
The evening will feature performances that reflect on the intersection of sustainability, community, and the arts. Sliding scale donations for drinks and performances. All donations for this evening support the performers. Artists to be announced.
Come hear current experts from a range of sectors discuss climate change and share their solutions-based approaches.
Thirty Million is a film made to explore the issue of sea level rise in Bangladesh and lift the wider concerns of rising seas into the public domain. After all, Bangladesh isn’t the only country with a coastline.
“By the middle of this century we will trigger runaway climate change — a process beyond our control. What do you do if you have…
Can a new initiative from Daniel Doctoroff and Google advance the civic conversation on climate change?
The KEEN + Wild & Scenic Live Monumental Film Tour is a collaborative effort to bring the best films about the places we love and play to communities around the country. Each stop will feature one hour of engaging and inspiring short films, ending with Live Monumental.
Attend the Clean Energy Standard public hearing in lower Manhattan to ensure that Gov. Cuomo’s “Clean Energy Standard that aims for a 50% renewables by 2030 goal…