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AfterTaste 2015: Inside Imagination (Day 1)

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 draws inspiration from artists, educators, writers, and scientists who work to transcend what we know, to catapult culture into areas inspired and new.

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.

Make Your Own Household Cleaner

There are plenty of reasons why making your own surface cleaner is an excellent idea.

Whether you’re concerned about saving money, the environment, or your health, this simple DIY project will make a difference!

Frack Off!

There are 500,000 active gas wells in the U.S. Each well can be fracked 18 times. Approximately 40,000 gallons of chemicals are used per fracturing, chemicals that include toxins and carcinogens like lead, mercury, hydrochloric acid, and formaldehyde.

In sum: 72 trillion gallons of water and 360 billion gallons of chemicals are needed to run our current gas wells.

Panelists discuss the environmental impacts of fracking and efforts to resist the industry at local and national levels.

Freshkills Park: A Model for New York Recycling and Environmental Justice

Co-organized by the National Academy and CIVITAS, Art, Design and the Urban Environment is a discussion series that explores how artists and architects—as well as activists, grassroots organizers, scientists, urban planners, and city agencies—can work together to improve urban environments in meaningful ways.

This discussion will focus on Freshkills Park as A Model for New York Recycling & Environmental Justice.

A Talk with R. Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic Institute, Germany, and Ecologic Institute, United States

Active in the international and European dimensions of environment and resources, climate and energy, and sustainable development policies for 25 years, R. Andreas Kraemer has been Director of Ecologic Institute since its foundation in 1995. In April 2008, he became chairman of the Ecologic Institute in Washington DC.

Gain insight into the world of environmental policy!

Event organized by Urban Future Lab and NYC ACRE.

NatureFest 2013

NatureFest, created by the Staten Island Museum is celebrating its 11th year of highlighting Staten Island’s natural treasures for nature lovers of all ages, sizes…

Youth as Untapped Capital

Youth, a vast global neighborhood replete with its own government, social networks, and modes of learning, was the subject of a panel at IDEAS CITY.

Sounds of the City

The constant noise of New York City – how does it affect us? stillspotting nyc, a project of the Guggenheim Museum, is addressing this question.…