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TEDXManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat

Union Square Hospitality Group CEO and Founder Danny Meyer and Food Tank co-Founder and President Danielle Nierenberg are among those who will take the stage at TEDxManhattan, “Changing the Way We Eat,” on March 7, 2015, in New York City.

With an exciting roster of experts and innovators, TEDxManhattan raises public awareness about critical issues facing the food system while fostering collaboration within the food movement.

In order to be inclusive, TEDxManhattan also invites communities, organizations, and individuals to organize viewing parties worldwide for the live webcast of this one-day TEDx event!

The World’s Park Community Forum 1

Do you want to participate in creative improvements to Flushing Meadows Corona Park?

Anyone interested in the future of Flushing Meadows Corona Park is invited to come to the Queens Museum for presentations as well as activities for all ages that will invite community members to thoughtfully engage with, and contribute, bold ideas for improving the access, circulation, and overall connectivity of the park with its surrounding communities.

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.

Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

With the Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.

But what is a Superfund exactly?

This class will focus on citizen participation in the Superfund process and conclude with a discussion of current and future sites in the five boroughs.

Winter Tree Identification

Add a bit of excitement and arboreal enjoyment to your winter walks with a lesson in tree identification! Look closely at the tree’s wintry bits: buds, bark, and fruiting bodies and your snowy sojourns will be evermore enchanting.

Sustainability and the Startup

This event will feature four perspectives from leaders in this space, on what it’s like being at a startup in the sustainability community, where they see opportunities and challenges, and how they see this community helping to advance sustainability goals.

New York City Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party

Transition is a community organizing response to climate change, resource depletion and financial instability. There are 1,100+ Transition groups in 44 countries and over 150 initiatives in the US.

All are welcome to the NYC Transition Neighborhoods Info-share Party! Be part of the NYC neighborhood-specific resilience building conversation: Fun, food from around the world and purposeful conversation.

Oculus Book Talk: Urban Alchemy

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will present Urban Alchemy, Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities, published by New Village Press. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with William Morrish on the intersections of public health and urbanism.

Choices: How Everyday Decisions Can Make a Lasting Impact Day 2

Interested in sustainable business strategies in New York City?

Join the Sustainable Cities Club of The New School and business leaders of Wyndham hotels, Jones Lang Lasalle, Telepan restaurant and Heplsy fashion to discuss where New York City stands as a sustainable city, what opportunities exist to fill a market demand and how we form municipal policies to increase the City’s sustainability and resiliency.

Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide

With the Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.

But what is a Superfund exactly?

Come learn at this evening class offered at the Brooklyn Brainery!

New York City Sustainability Jam

The Global Sustainability Jam is 48 hours of great creativity, learning, meeting talented people and having fun!

You will be working with people of various backgrounds who you might never have met before, bouncing ideas off one another and turn your ideas into real-world solutions related to “Sustainability”.

Doc New York City screening of A Small Section of the World

Have you ever wondered how many hands it takes to create a cup of coffee?

And how many of those hands belong to women?

A SMALL SECTION OF THE WORLD is an inspirational story about a group of women from a remote farming region of Costa Rica whose ideas sparked a revolution in the coffee growing world.