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Our Earth’s future: One-day course at the Natural History Museum
In a special one-day event , Dr. Debra Tillinger will lead an exploration of the science of the Arctic and Antarctica, examining how changes in these two regions of Earth reflect and shape the impacts of climate change. Participants will hear from guest speakers …
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Brooklyn beach clean-up
Plumb Beach Brooklynjoin NYC H20 and NYC Audubon for a beach cleaning event at Plumb Beach, Brooklyn, on Saturday, April 18, from 10am-1pm. Free tranportation by bus from Union Square (Manhattan provided). Click here for more information and to register.
South Bronx Unite environmental justice bike tour
Brook Park E. 141st and Brook Avenue, Bronx, NY, United StatesParticipants of all ages will visit sites along the community-designed Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan, including the proposed Lincoln Avenue waterfront park, the 132nd Street pier and the historic Port Morris gantries. Participants will also learn about local organizing campaigns …
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“EcoCinema Cafe”: 3-day environmental film festival at John Jay
John Jay 899 10th Ave #623, New York, NY, United StatesFrom April 21 through 23, 2015, in the John Jay Cafeteria, Lindsey Kaymen (Director of Environmental Health and Safety) will present the annual “EcoCinema Cafe” film festival a joint project of the college’s Sustainability Committee, the Environmental Education Fund (EEF) and …
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“Can’t stop the water”: On campus film event for Earth Day
John Jay 899 10th Ave #623, New York, NY, United StatesIn connection with the environmental film festival, "EcoCinema Cafe," come to a special screening of "Can't stop the water" in room L.63 at John Jay (new building). It tells the true story of a Louisiana tribe who are being displaced because their …
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City Council member Antonio Reynoso will speak on campus about environmental justice
John Jay College New Building 524 W. 59th St., Room 1.108, New York, United StatesCity Council member Antonio Reynoso, who chairs the committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Managment will be the inaugural speaker for a new seires, called "City and State Champions of Justice" at John Jay College, on Monday May 4, 2015, …
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NYC H2O presents an Old Croton Aqueduct bike tour
New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, United StatesIn 1842, the Croton Aqueduct began providing water to NYC from the Croton River from approximately 40 miles north. In the decades before the aqueduct's completion the city had suffered through epidemics of Asiatic Cholera and Yellow Fever because water came from increasingly …
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Hudson River Park mulch-a-thon
Join your friends and neighbors this spring and lend a hand alongside Hudson River Park staff to plant, weed, mulch and prune—while basking in the spring sunshine. From Chambers Street to 59th Street along Manhattan’s west side, Hudson River Park …
Public talk: Geoengineering the Earth’s climate
Columbia University Morningside Campus Alfred J. Lerner Hall, Satow RoomColumbia University's The Earth Institute presents the fourth of the 2014-2015 Sustainable Development Seminar Series, Geoengineering the Earth's Climate; Risks, Opportunities, and Governance Challenges, with Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Michael …