As a lead up to the People’s Climate March, on Monday, September 15, 2014, from 10:00 a.m.-noon, nuclear activists and experts will discuss problems related to nuclear power at the United Nations Church Center (44th St. and 1st Ave., Manhattan). …
New Yorkers are in for an exciting moment in history, poised to make a major contribution to the generations that come after us. The People’s Climate March is gearing up to be a massive march in support of sustainability and environmental justice. …
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SEIU Local 1199 is sponsoring an international forum on the occasion of the People’s Climate March entitled “Jobs, climate change, and system change” to take place on Thursday, September 18, 2014, from 6-8 p.m. at 310 W. 43rd St., 7th …
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Join the John Jay community in viewing the documentary “Disruption” during the community hour (1:40 p.m.-2:40 p.m.) on Wednesday September 17, in room 1.108 in the New Building. It will be shown again, for those who can’t make the first …
Disruption: A film about climate change being shown on campus! Read more »
On Monday, Bristol County, MA, District Attorney Sam Sutter surprised climate activists when he dropped criminal charges against Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara, who had blocked a daily shipment of 40,000 toms of coal to the Brayton Point power plant …
Political Science Professor, SEJ faculty member, and nature photographer Jennifer Rutledge captures the Hudson River at low tide, a few dozen miles upriver from NYC. City dwellers know the Hudson from boardwalks and bridges; further upriver the Hudson has gentles banks …
In preparation for the People’s Climate March, local, national, and international environmental leaders will be discussing why a new international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases should be pursued by world leaders on September 20, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. at the …
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Distinguished History Professor Gerald Markowitz will discuss the problem of lead poisoning negatively impacting America’s children during a brown bag lunch on November 10, 2014, at 1:40 p.m. at John Jay College (Manhattan). Bring your own lunch and join fellow students, environmental scholars, …
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In a milestone for environmental law, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Babier found BP the primary culprit in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, judging BPs conduct “reckless” and grossly negligent. The U.S. attorney …
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Join the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center at the opening reception for the art exhibition World of Matter on September 9, 2014, at 6 p.m at the James Gallery (365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5103, Manhattan). The exhibition …