BF+DA Sustainability+Technology Book Fair
Come and meet 12+ authors who have published books focused on ethical design, sustainability, technology, design and fashion !
Bringing Together New York’s Urban Farm Educators
With the rise of urban agriculture comes the rise of urban agriculture education. Find out more at the City Growers Education conference with the help of various presenters, panels and exciting workshops !
TEDxFultonStreet
Tickets to TED cost $8,500-$30,000, but come experience one day of it for free! We will present the realtime proceedings of one day of the TED 2016 Conference, screened on a large projector via Livestream, and will take place in a private room of a restaurant.
MulchFest
Bring your holiday tree to a designated city park to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city!
Brooklyn Eco Bike Tour
Learn about Brooklyn’s environmental challenges and successes on NYC H20’s leisurely and informative bike ride along Jamaica Bay.
The tour will be led by BK ecology enthusiasts Adam Schwartz and Matt Malina.
Expo Gowanus
EXPO Gowanus is a free event created by the Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC), featuring Design, Stewardship and Investigation projects that beautify and enhance the health of the Gowanus Canal and Watershed.
Made in Brooklyn: Food Waste to Biofuel
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.
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.
Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul
The Earth Institute presents Fast Fashion: Disposable Society and the Soul, with author and journalist, Elizabeth L. Cline.
The hastening speed and obsolescence of modern consumer goods–expressed in its most extreme form within fast fashion–has fundamentally reshaped society, culture, economics, and ultimately our sense of selves.
Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide
With the Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.
But what is a Superfund exactly?
This class will focus on citizen participation in the Superfund process and conclude with a discussion of current and future sites in the five boroughs.
Freshkills Park Series: Landfill Infrastructure
The ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City, using state of the art ecological restoration techniques in an extraordinary setting for recreation, public art, and environmental investigation.
Learn more about the infrastructure that makes the park possible from Laura Truettner, Manager for Park Development.
The Brooklyn Waterfront: Past and Present
In this class at the Brooklyn Brainery, the development, decline, and rebirth of the Brooklyn waterfront, from 19th century port to 21st century playground.
Lower East Side Ecology Center: Mulchfest 2015
Come recycle the holiday cheer with the NYC Compost Project Hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center at this season’s Mulchfest, located at Tompkins Square Park!
Trash: New York City’s Battle with Garbage
This class will trace New York City’s protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.
Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!
Superfund: A Citizen’s Guide
With the Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, Superfund has become a colloquial term and a buzzword in New York City.
But what is a Superfund exactly?
Come learn at this evening class offered at the Brooklyn Brainery!
Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Mulchfest 2015
Help the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!
Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.
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.
Film Showing: Food Design
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.