What’s on your plate? Where does it come from? What effects does it have on the environment and your body? What can you do to help? This 52 minute documentary that takes an unadulterated look into the food you eat, and how you can make a difference to your health and the environment by the food choices you make.
Join the Green Festival Marketplace by exploring over 250 exhibitors, learning from over 50 inspirational speakers, indulging in some delicious vegan or vegetarian food and learning all you need to know to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Spend a morning on QBG Farm and learn how composted food scraps nourish the soil to grow healthy food in NYC. Tasks will vary by day, but may include weeding, harvesting, planting, and composting activities.
Come to the Cocktail Party Fundraiser in support of Fort Tryon Park.
Celebrate the end of summer at this annual cocktail benefit overlooking the Heather Garden and Hudson River. Sample an assortment of wines from Cabrini Wines, brews by Dyckman Beer Co., and delectable foods from the New Leaf Restaurant. All proceeds go to sustaining the park!
Come discover Randall’s Island Urban Farm – all are welcome at these free events! An urban farm expert will be on site to answer questions. You can discover a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, meet the chickens, and learn about the rice paddies.
Riverdale RiverFest is an annual community festival to celebrate the Hudson River. It takes place each June at the edge of the Hudson River, on the grounds of the College of Mount Saint Vincent.
Since starting in 2008, this event has become an annual staple of community life. Now, it is the place to go to learn about local sustainability initiatives while sampling local food, art and music.
Open House New York invites you to a very special lecture with Karen Karp, president of Karp Resources, to kick offThe Final Mile: Food Systems of New York, a new year-long series of tours and talks exploring the architecture of New York City’s multi-layered food system.
A panel on how food supply can adapt to growing global demand and environmental pressures featuring panelists from Whole Foods, Chipotle, and more. Keynote speech on “Beyond Meat.” Food and drink reception afterward.
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!
Join Fred Gerber, Director of Education Emeritus for an adult workshop on starting your summer vegetables indoors.
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 eight futuristic, stainless steel-clad digester eggs at Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek wastewater plant are designed to process as much as 1.5 million gallons of waste every day.
Join the Urban Green Council at this exciting event to learn more about the eggs, results from the plant’s recently completed food waste pilot program, and the three-year full-scale demonstration project that will be launching there soon.
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.
This film takes a look at the secret chambers of a major manufacturer of food, where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow.