Borrowed Light is an outdoor sound and sculpture installation by artist Sari Carel set to open in Sunset Park in May 2015.
The project features abstract geometric architectural forms, incorporating field-recorded sounds from the park’s local fauna.
A series of related community workshops and performances will accompany the project throughout the summer.
Transition activists, permaculturists, and urban agriculture advocates gather to plan impactful collaboration between our networks and movements! Potluck brunch, no charge to attend!
A full day of local and Mid-Atlantic regional Transition and Permaculture exhibits and resiliency presentations!
Come out and learn how to build raised bed gardens! We will build a community garden with raised beds on a grassy lot on Beach 67th St., alongside Rockaway residents and NYC Transition movement activists!
A Reggae, Calypso, Soca dance party-potluck with special presentations by Rockaway neighbors from around the world celebrates the deep Rockaway cultural roots that anchor resilient recovery.
Enjoy great food, music, short Transition and Permaculture talks that kick off the Rockaway Health Festival and Transition-Permaculture Convergence to follow on Saturday June 27th.
Join NYC H20 and NYC Audubon for a beach cleaning event at Plumb Beach, Brooklyn!
Join NYU Wagner for an engrossing conversation with one of the nation’s leading experts on property law, land use, and affordable housing—Vicki Been.
On April 10 at the Pratt Institute architects, historians, urban advocates, and city officials will present case studies of completed work, addressing design excellence and community priorities.
Celebrate the changing seasons with an evening of enlightening and entertaining works from the journalist Elizabeth Royte and John KixMiller, the author of The Protectors of The Wood, a series of illustrated adventure novels about a group of misfit teenagers saving the world from climate change. KixMiller will be joined by the four-piece Protectors of the Wood Band.
Join NYC H2O as Dr. Michael McGuire author of The Chlorine Revolution recounts the story of how chlorine first got introduced into municipal drinking water supplies.
The Earth Institute and the School of Continuing Education MSSM Practicum present an introduction to how sustainability standards and metrics can advance the integration of sustainability in communities. The talk will center on the STAR Community Rating System, a national certification program that promotes health, inclusion, and prosperity.
A lecture given by Katherine Gajewski, Director of Sustainability in the City of Philadelphia on the strategies of implementing successful urban sustainability programs in the face of political and fiscal obstacles.
Composting can seem too hard for the average citizen, but in this class, you’ll learn how easy it can be. We’ll talk through the basics of indoor vermicomposting (composting with worms) and how you can do your part to reduce your food waste.
Each participant will construct a bin, fill it with bedding, add some red wiggler worms, and watch them go to work!
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.
How do we create the City We Need for the future where women and girls will reach their potential and realize their human rights?
Make your neighborhood more sustainable and resilient with Transition Neighborhoods (TN).
Learn how!
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”.
Join Fred Gerber, Director of Education Emeritus for an adult workshop on starting your summer vegetables indoors.