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Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Major Speech on Sustainability Challenges and Goals for New York City Through 2030
At an event hosted by the League of Conservation Voters, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will deliver a major speech outlining sustainability challenges and goals for the City of New York through the year 2030. This will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw.
December 11, 2006
Green Apple Talk #2: The Urban Environment
A discussion exploring the connection between urban planning, architecture, and contemporary design. How can we make our buildings, transportation and cities better for both the environment and people? What decisions can people make in the urban environment that can have a positive impact, both now and into the future? Featuring Buzz Poole, editor of Green Design, Alex Marshall, author of Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities, and urban planner and blogger Shin-Pei Tsay. Moderated by best-selling author Bryan Keefer.
December 11, 2006
Merry Gridlock III
A Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods traffic analysis predicts gridlock conditions could be almost daily events in the current Atlantic Yards plan. To highlight the need for further regional analysis and better area-wide traffic solutions, the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods will be holding an information event. This is an opportunity to point out how Atlantic Yards will exacerbate the already traffic-packed intersection of Atlantic, Flatbush, and 4th Avenues. Volunteers will be holding signs, distributing literature, and helping pedestrians navigate these dangerous intersections.
December 8, 2006
Memorial Service for Eric Ng
Directly after the memorial ride there will be a memorial service at St. Mark's Church. Friends & family will share stories, show photos, and play music.
December 7, 2006
CUNY Sustainability Conference
The first annual CUNY Sustainability Conference will discuss the critical issues of energy and environmental sustainability. This conference recognizes CUNY's emerging role as a leader in addressing these issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on these issues as they affect the nation, New York State, and New York City, but all of these impacts will be discussed within the context of global concerns. These front page issues include: the impacts of rapidly rising global energy use and fossil fuel demand; the connection between fossil fuel-based energy production and potentially devastating climate change; and the social, political and economic effects of rapid urbanization and its influence on energy use. This invitation is extended to faculty and students from all disciplines, as well as to colleagues and counterparts throughout the environmental arena who may currently be conducting research or have an interest in the themes of this conference.
December 7, 2006
Contested Streets Screening and Panel Discussion
Screening of Contested Streets (57 min) and Grand Street (6 min)
December 7, 2006
Contested Streets Screening
Contested Streets is a Transportation Alternatives-produced, Cicala Filmworks-made documentary that explores the rich diversity of New York City street life before the introduction of automobiles and shows how New York can follow the example of other modern cities that have reclaimed their streets as vibrant public spaces. Contested Streets features new footage of reclaimed streets in London, Paris and Copenhagen and interviews with New York savvy notables such as Kenneth T. Jackson, Mike Wallace, Bob Kiley, Majora Carter, Kathryn Wylde, Enrique Peñalosa, James Howard Kunstler and many more.
December 5, 2006
Charles Komanoff: The Real Energy Crisis and the Way Out
The onrushing climate crisis is overturning decades of conventional wisdom on energy. Our problem isn't that oil and other fuels are too expensive: it's that they're not expensive enough.
December 5, 2006
Manhattan Community Board 3 Meeting About New Bike Lane
Manhattan Community Board 3's Transportation Committee is holding a public meeting on the new bike lanes on Grand Street in the Lower East Side. The Community Board's pdf-formatted agenda lists this as an "informational presentation by the Department of Transportation on Grand Street Bicycle Facility Design."
December 5, 2006