Citywide, stronger business case for green buildings
The belief that business and the environment cannot thrive together is challenged by the success of several green residential developments in NYC.
Ecofest’s 25th Anniversary!
Celebrate EcoFest’s 25th Anniversary with a free, fun-filled day in Times Square!
Diogenes searches for answers from Google
Public critiques and counter-campaigns have drawn attention to Google’s corporate slogan “Don’t be evil,” pointing out their hypocrisy and subverting the slogan with the protest rally: “Don’t fund evil.”
The future of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
How will the historic site–New York’s largest and oldest industrial facility–look in a year? In ten? We take a look at one new, “green” piece of the industrial fabric.
Who really owns that brand in your shopping cart?
Can this app give you more control over your life?
Book review: The City and The Coming Climate
New York has persevered through two heat waves so far in summer 2013, including a day that broke the Con Ed record for peak energy use. When will we experience the next heat wave and how bad will it be?
Climate Institute CEO John Topping optimistic about changing climate
Can we “slow climate change until it is within the capacity of natural ecosystems and humans to adapt”?
Watch midtown Manhattan’s explosive growth (and hear about it from Paul Newman)
Cube Cities traces the lifetime of midtown Manhattan through growth animation
Book review: Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Cheap oil built the modern American landscape. Now what? Eric Sanderson has some ideas.
Urban foraging: a lost art?
In the world of NYC foraging, appetites, and sometimes tensions, are high. Here’s our guide to the landscape.
Rainwater Harvesting Workshop
Join Adam Katzman’s workshop on constructing your own personal rainwater harvesting system! Katzman teaches you how to create a efficient rainwater harvesting system with a…
Queens Botanical Garden’s Eco-House (through 7/31)
The Eco-house is a exhibit by the Community Environmental Center. It is a interactive exhibit that allows you to see behind the walls and underneath…
12 x 12 Project: sustainable off-grid house model through 7/31
Come to the Queens Botanical Garden to view the 12×12 Project. The 12×12 project is a model display of a sustainable, off-grid tiny house with…
Solarize Brooklyn: Solar Energy Education Session
Thinking about using solar energy for your house? Come to Solarize Brooklyn, an event where you can learn more about using alternative energy for your…
E-Waste Recycling Event
Photo credit: uitsnews.iu.edu Don’t know what to do with old or broken electronics that are lying around at home? Come to the summer E-waste recycling…
Solar State of Play: Innovative Models that are Driving the Market Forward
Solar One and NYC ACRE are bringing solar professionals, upstart financiers, and venture capitalists together in a panel discussion about solar energy and its future…