The Big Picture: How Can Design Change the Way We Live
A roundtable discussion hosted by the Barnard Architexx on the power design has over our lives.
Joel Towers
“We’re educating students who will go out into the world and have 60 years or more of productive and engaged life. What is the world going to be like 60 years from now?”
Ride for Climate presentation with David Kroodsma
Former Stanford climate change researcher David Kroodsma has bicycled from California to the southern tip of South America, from Turkey to the east coast of China, and across the U.S. twice.
Join David for a slideshow of his best photos and videos!
Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: City Politics and Sustainability
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.
Planning in Silence: The Challenge of Hybrid Water Provision
A look at urban water reform in African countries from the perspective of its users.
Earth2Class Workshop: The Source and Solution to Groundwater Arsenic Contamination
E2C is a unique science/math/technology resource for K-12 teachers, students, the general public, and geoscientists. It is a collaboration among researchers and an Earth Science educator at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; technology integration specialists from Colégio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brasil; and classroom teachers from New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere. It centers around Saturday Workshops for Educators held at Columbia’s Lamont Campus in Palisades N.Y.
Exploring Creative Community Resilience
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”.
Resilient New York: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Face of Climate Change
Learn how New York City has implemented and planned solutions to a post-Sandy society through urban planning and architecture.
Queens Botanical Garden: Indoor Gardening Workshop: Start your Summer Veggies Indoors
Join Fred Gerber, Director of Education Emeritus for an adult workshop on starting your summer vegetables indoors.
New York City Green Festival
Green Festival® is a vibrant, dynamic marketplace where companies and organizations come to showcase their green products and services, and where people go to learn how to live healthier, more sustainable lives.
Passive Housing 101: An Introduction
Are you newly interested in the Passive House concept and wanting to learn more? Please join New York Passive House to find out what the Passive House standard entails.
Ken Levenson, NYPH President will present the basics of Passive House design and showcase typical sustainable strategies used to achieve substantial energy savings.
Meet and Greet with Environmental Education Advocacy Council
Come out to meet Environmental Education Advocacy Cuncil’s Steering Committee Officers, network with EEAC members representing environmental and science education organizations across NYC, and find out how to become a Steering Committee Officer!
Pioneers Bar has 19 yummy beers on tap, jumbo Connect Four, and life-size Jenga! EEAC will provide snacks for everyone.
AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 2)
What does it take to imagine? We live in an era of environmental crisis and political unrest when complex systems and data analysis dictate projections of an uncertain future. Interiorists study existing places and are charged to imagine new worlds.
In AfterTaste 2015 the Parsons School of Constructed Environments draw inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.
On February 27 & 28, 2015, imagination alchemists, designers and experts gather to think and enact new possibilities and alternative paths through the interior of the imagination.
Urban Forest Protection in New York City
A lecture through Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation about urban forest protection and restoration in New York City given by Timon McPhearson.
Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Ethical Issues in Responding to a Global Disease Crisis – Ebola and Beyond
This session explores the ethical issues in dealing with infectious disease threats in a global environment. Issues from the current Ebola crisis are explored to understand the nature of these issues, and to generate lessons to guide future responses.
Inspirations for the Design of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Leading designer of Brooklyn Bridge Park shares inspirations in this free talk!
Nature’s Workshop: Weather Exploration and Monitoring
A family-friendly educational event in Marine Park.
Food For Thought
In a world that continues to struggle with agricultural challenges to support the global population, developing sustainable solutions for crop production, agricultural resource use, access to food, and food waste is critical.
Come hear from the New York Area Sustainability Group’s expert speakers as they point out problems in our food system, and discuss the changes that need to take place to solve these issues.