Compost Crew at Sherman Creek
Every Saturday, the Compost Crew helps process all of the food scraps collected at the Inwood Greenmarket with organic waste recovered from NYRP’s landscaping operations.…
Billopp Shores: The Ebb and Flow of Man and Nature
This retrospective exhibition offers a glimpse of man and nature’s impact on the development of the waterfront in Conference House Park.
Why I love the QueensWay
The QueensWay would transform an abandoned railway in Queens into parkland.
Discovery Day
Go to Freshkills Park for an opportunity to discover the trails and hills of the landfill-to-park project!
Randall’s Island Park: Urban Farm Exploration Days
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.
Gowanus Wild @ Brooklyn Public Library
Gowanus Wild is an urban wilderness series which aims to turn concepts of nature photography on their head by finding the beautiful in what most consider to be a man-made environmental catastrophe: the Gowanus Canal and surrounding neighborhood.
Adventures New York City
Join NYC Parks for Adventures NYC, and discover adventure right here in your own backyard! Get ready to hike, bike, climb and paddle as NYC Parks and the great outdoors are celebrated.
Brooklyn Eco Bike Tour
Learn about Brooklyn’s environmental challenges and successes on NYC H20’s leisurely and informative bike ride along Jamaica Bay!
Minetta Brook Walk
Before NYC became concrete and asphalt, the island was covered by rivers, streams and marshes. Greenwich Village’s Minetta Brook is one such watercourse and still makes its presence known in the basements of the structures built on top of it; some are still visible if you know where to look.
Join urban explorer Steve Duncan of Undercity.org as he shows us the Minetta’s 1.5 mile buried path and explains the waterway functioning both today and in the past!
Eighth Annual New York City Wildflower Week
NYC Wildflower Week presents a full week of free events to showcase the 53,000 acres of open space and 778 native plants in NYC’s 5 boroughs. The goal of the week is simple: to encourage New Yorkers to get to know the nature in their own back yard and to inspire them to protect this natural heritage for future generations. Most events are FREE and open to the public!
Insouciant coyotes take Manhattan
An adventurous coyote led police on a futile chase through Riverside Park on the Upper West Side, the second to be seen in Manhattan in April, and the sixth NYC coyote sighting of 2015, a record-breaking pace.
Prospect Park: Natural Areas Conservancy Lecture
Learn about native plants and ecological features in Prospect Park, one of Brooklyn’s last remaining native forests.
Living with Urban Coyotes
New York City is home to an amazing abundance of wildlife.
NYC Parks Urban Park Rangers will guide you to the best wildlife viewing spots in the urban jungle. Learn about the basic biology of these super smart and energetic animals.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Roots of Resilience
In keeping with the notion of sankofa—remembering the past in order to move forward—this year’s theme, “Roots of Resilience,” will examine the ways in which sustainability is tradition, not trend.
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.