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Project for Public Spaces’ Great Neighborhood Book Launch Party
A celebration with great neighborhood stories, wine and cheese, and live music to promote The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Placemaking by Jay Walljasper.
May 31, 2007
Exhibition: The Park at the Center of the World: Five Visions for Governors Island
The exhibition features five landscape architecture and architecture teams selected to present their design visions for the future open spaces on the 172-acre Governors Island. Governors Island's open space will include the two mile Great Promenade that provides outstanding views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor, a new park, and restoration of the landscape in the Island's National Historic District. Showcasing conceptual and illustrative designs by the five teams for the open space of Governors Island, the exhibition provides a platform for public feedback before the jury will take place in late June 2007. A design team will be selected by mid summer.
May 31, 2007
PlaNYC Neighborhood Presentation: Astoria
If you want to know more about what PlaNYC offers for your neighborhood and you live in Astoria, please join Transportation Alternatives as it presents to residents, workers and business owners.
May 31, 2007
Car-Free Grand Concourse
Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr. presents Bronx on the Move, a series of family fitness events. Power walks led by Health People, Inc., dance workshops instructed by Contemporary Ballet Theatre, relay races and other games offered by Montefiore School Health, tips on healthy cooking and eating, jump rope contests, hopscotch, roller skating and other … Continued
May 31, 2007
Panel: Mayor’s Plan for 2030: Exploring Implementation
New York New Visions presents: NYC2030 Green Issues
May 30, 2007
Panel: Sustainability-Driven Corporate Innovation
A corporation's organizational framework must facilitate and encourage employee innovation and risk-taking. Frequently, integral decision making must occur at lower employee levels where people have the greatest information on products, markets, customer feedback and relationships. It is critical that innovation across employee levels is encouraged and supported, but how can a corporation ensure innovation and more importantly, sustainable innovation? How do companies internalize a culture and process to ensure consistent innovation? GE's 'Ecomagination' initiative to double global revenue from environmental products by 2012 has radically shifted public attention from the company's reputation as an environmental laggard to a new role as an eco-innovator. Other companies such as Pfizer (green chemistry) and Toyota (hybrid technology) claim growing markets for their products among both consumers and businesses. Arthur D. Little's recent report, The Innovation High Ground, finds that as many as 95% of companies believe that such 'sustainability-driven innovation' has the potential to deliver business value and almost 25% believe it definitely will. Where are sustainability-driven innovators headed and what can other companies learn from them?
May 29, 2007
Lecture: Oil, Law, and Sustainability in the Amazon Rainforest
A lecture by Judith Kimerling of Queens College.
May 29, 2007
Lecture: The Rising Tide: Urban Population & Climate Change
A lecture by Deborah Balk of Baruch College.
May 29, 2007
Lecture: New York Meets Nor’easters: Are Our Coasts Prepared?
A lecture by Frank Buonaiuto and Haydee Salmun of Hunter College.
May 29, 2007
Lecture: The Open Window: Getting to Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings
A lecture by Michael Bobker of the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems.
May 29, 2007