Farm and Compost Volunteer Days
Join the NYC Compost Project and lend a hand at our sustainable farm or learn how composted food scraps nourish the soil. Learn how to…
Paths to Climate Action
Much progress in sustainability is underway, so why aren’t we seeing sweeping results? Why aren’t corporations, consumers, and policy makers exercising their power enough? The…
SHOP at Urban Air Market: Brooklyn
Urban Air Market is excited to launch in Brooklyn with a one day pop-up marketplace for sustainable design. DIY activites, sustainabilty workshops, wellness resources, and interactive art. PLUS shopping from a curated selection of makers of jewelry, apparel, accessories, art, and home decor.
Free to attend!
Preserving the Summer Harvest: Learn to Make Jam with the Brooklyn Fräulein
Join the Brooklyn Fräulein, Nicole Rutsch, to learn the basics of making both sweet and savory jams. Once we’ve made our introductions we’ll take a tour…
Ben’s Secret, Spicy, Salsa Workshop!
You knew he made hot sauce but did you know he was a master of salsa? Until now he’s kept his salsa skills a secret,…
Beekeeping 101: Honey Extraction
Harvest, filter, jar, and taste the freshest honey in NYC! So, you’ve spent the summer learning all about bees now it’s time to reap the…
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…
Bicycle Powered Gelato Making Workshop
Come pedal the Sweetcycle – a stationary bike capable of pedal powering an ice cream churn. While pedaling gelato, Kate Zuckerman, pastry chef and owner…
Compost Dinner
As people who spend our days farming, we strive to see as little food waste as possible. Simply stated, wasted food is wasted energy. So…
Pier 1 Salt Marshes Coastal Cleanup
Coastal Cleanup Volunteers give back to the community by helping us remove hundreds of pounds of trash from Pier 1 salt marshes and beaches.…
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…
Earth Week: Going Beyond “Green”
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center for an interactive showcase of community-based participatory research led by New School faculty and students addressing the impacts…
Permaculture and Urban Eco-System Design
Permaculture has the potential to transform the future, but first we have to bring it mainstream. How do we scale permaculture to redesign the massive agricultural, food, and consumer culture systems for long-term health and sustainability? What is the way forward given the sociopolitical challenges we currently face? How can a focus on local actions collectively alter a global system? Our experts will be discussing these questions and more at our permaculture forum on April 3rd, 2017.
5th Annual Sustainable Living Empowerment Conference
Free and open to the public, the purpose of this conference is to inspire and empower attendees so they become active participants toward the goal…
Is New York’s Future Sustainable?
The Gotham Center for New York City History, presents a program on ‘A History of Environmental Impact, and Planning for More Growth’ Ted Steinberg, author…
Earth Week: University Center Sustainability Tours
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the New School Buildings for a special Sustainability Tour of The New School University Center. The University…
Water & Power: A California Heist
Gonna be a lot of irate citizens when they find out that they’re paying for water they’re not gonna get. — Jack Nicholson as J.J.…
Earth Week: University Center Sustainability Tours
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the New School Buildings for a special Sustainability Tour of The New School University Center. Tours will be guided by Erik Eibert, Assistant Director for Sustainable Initiatives. Tours will leave from the lobby of the University Center at 3pm and 4pm. This event is part of Earth Week at The New School, sponsored by the Tishman Environment and Design Center.