Designing to Avoid Disaster
Thomas Fisher, a professor and Director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss the fracture-critical nature of many of the…
Community Garden Clean-Up Day at Green Oasis
Community Garden Clean-Up Day at Green Oasis Community Garden
Designing Green Roofs and Rooftop Farms
Calling all architects, landscape designers, urban planners, sustainability coordinators and greening professionals of all stripes! Whether you’re responding to an affordable housing RFP, or designing a…
Designing Green Roofs and Rooftop Farms
Calling all architects, landscape designers, urban planners, sustainability coordinators and greening professionals of all stripes! Whether you’re responding to an affordable housing RFP, or designing…
Women in Energy Spotlight: What is going on in the energy start up world today?
Please join NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, Energy Policy International Club (EPIC), and the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program for a…
Deep Energy Retrofit: Warren Hall at Cornell University
Learn how Cornell University’s Warren Hall—a 130,000 square foot pre-war building with historic masonry—was renovated into a modern LEED Platinum home for the University’s undergraduate…
Free Energy Workshop
If you are interested in learning more about how to make your home more energy efficient, and the financial and environmental benefits, please join us !
Digital and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change
RSVP here. As global institutions like the United Nations turn to their attention to human rights and climate change, local groups have been fostering the…
Digital and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change
As global institutions like the United Nations are turning their attention to human rights and climate change, local groups have been fostering the links between natural environments and digital environments for more than a decade.
Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water
Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city’s people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.
Garden City|Mega City: Rethinking Cities for the Age of Global Warming
Explore how cities can be both a solution for population increase and global warming by taking a look at urban areas all over the world.
Time to Choose Screening
Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions, presented by Gathr.
Downtown Brooklyn Community Discussion: Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX)
Come learn more about the Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) and share your thoughts !
Demand a Renewable Energy Plan with Teeth
Attend the Clean Energy Standard public hearing in lower Manhattan to ensure that Gov. Cuomo’s “Clean Energy Standard that aims for a 50% renewables by 2030 goal…
The Road From Paris: An Agenda for Action
What is the role of community development and the community design professions in addressing climate change?
Nuclear Energy and the Clean Energy Future
Join us to examine the role of nuclear energy in America’s transition towards a lower-carbon energy system as well as legal and policy options for supporting nuclear energy.
Earth Day Clean Energy Vehicle Showcase
This year for Earth Day we are presenting a showcase of electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and other alternative fuel technologies to the public to spread the word about these environmentally friendly vehicles that run on clean energy.
Smartphone Apps for Citizen Scientists Workshop Series: 3. Soil Contaminants
The Earth Institute presents the Smartphone Apps for Citizen Science Workshop Series, “Soil Contaminants”. Join us for the third in the series on Environmental Apps for Citizen Scientists.