A climate museum start-up seeks interns as we prepare our first exhibitions. This competitive internship program offers students the opportunity to participate in the early stages of a bold and ambitious new climate initiative. Find us on Idealist to learn more: goo.gl/DoQgze
April 7 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm FREE for high school and college students! Do you have a passion for helping the environment? Join us for STEM Night: Conservation and Energy at the New York Hall of Science to explore the wide range of opportunities in conservation, energy and environmental science. Hear from guest speakers,...
The NYC Compost Project works to rebuild NYC’s soils by providing New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to produce and use compost locally. The project is funded and managed by the NYC Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Recycling and Sustainability. Learn more at nyc.gov/compostproject....
“What would it Mean to Understand Climate Change?” will be held on November 29th from 3:30PM – 5:30PM on the 2nd floor of the Heyman Center for the Humanities (see http://heymancenter.org/visit/ for directions). During this seminar, leading scholars from the fields of climate science (Isaac Held, NOAA/Princeton),...
April 22, 2015 9:15 am – 4:30 pm SUNY Orange – Kaplan Hall Great Room, Newburgh, NY This workshop will focus on diverse initiatives for incorporating green infrastructure in planning, education, watershed restoration, smart growth and resilience initiatives for small cities and other community centers in the region. ...
When: Friday April 10, 2015, 7:00pm Where: Hunter College Room 714 (West Building) It can be argued that using chlorine in drinking water created the biggest improvement in public health in modern history. Typhoid fever was not eradicated in the U.S. until the widespread use of water disinfection was realized. Michael...
Today, at the UNISDR World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, C40 officially launched for public comment the City Climate Hazard Taxonomy, a structured description of the key climate hazards that cities are facing. The Taxonomy was developed by C40 and ARUP with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Cities are...
Monday, March 30, 2015, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Please join NYC Parks, Partnerships for Parks, the Harlem River Working Group and The High Bridge Coalition at these community forums to review plans for celebrating the bridge’s reopening, and consider how your group could enhance those plans. Partner with us to make...
When/Where: Friday March 13 at 7pm – Hunter College West Building Room HW714 The High Bridge is slated to reopen as a walkway in summer 2015. Come hear Bryan Diffley, the Project Manager of the renovation, speak about NYC’s oldest standing bridge. An engineering treasure, the High Bridge was built in 1848 to bring...
with Adam Parris, Executive Director, Science and Resilience Center at Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn College, CUNY When: February 26, 2015, 12:30pm Where: Baruch – Newman Vertical Campus – Room 14-285 Light lunch will be served Adam is a physical scientist who has previously served as division chief for Climate Assessment...
Dylan Gauthier joined the Institute as Media Coordinator and Webmaster, building the CISC website and facilitating digital media production and development, since late 2010, and currently works with the Institute as a Fellow in Digital Media. Dylan is a media artist, designer and educator and has worked as a media consultant,...
Richard Reiss is a research fellow in communications, and is the co-founder and editor of City Atlas, the Institute’s partnership for public communications about the future of New York City. City Atlas launched with a Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund award in October, 2011. Over 100 interns from schools...
Hunter College’s East Harlem Art Gallery and CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Presents: Oceans of Trash: Tackling Marine Plastic Pollution A program in conjunction with the exhibition Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape, photos by Alejandro Durán. Saturday, January 31, 2015 2:30 – 5PM with reception to...
In 2001 the MTA retired its fleet of Redbird subway cars. It gave the trains to states on the Atlantic coast to serve as artificial reefs for fish. The program has been successful in supporting the web of undersea life and attracts game fish, which in turn draws sport fishermen and scuba divers to the reefs. New Jersey,...
Two years since Superstorm Sandy, the world is a different place. Everyone is talking about “resilient coastal cities”, but what does that really mean? What can we learn from inherently sustainable and resilient natural systems? And how can we apply nature’s adaptive strategies to our urban harbors? THE...
Learn about Brooklyn’s environmental challenges and successes on NYC H20’s leisurely and informative bike ride along Jamaica Bay. Climate change, rising sea levels and intense storms like Hurricane Sandy have persuaded city planners of the value of marshland in storm water management. A century ago the...
Do you have an Android phone? Do you use a car on a regular basis? Become a Citizen Scientist! The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities is partnering with CUNY’s Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI) to promote enviroCar. Developed by the 52°North R&D network, and the Institute for...
Summer/Fall 2014 Job description: Tour guide NYC H2O is seeking guides to lead tours for school groups at historic reservoirs in NYC Parks, including the Central Park Reservoir, Ridgewood Reservoir in Brooklyn, the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx, and Silver Lake in Staten Island. Tour guides receive a $1,000 stipend...
Published in the September 7th edition of the New York Times: “IF the Chesapeake Bay is America’s Estuary, then its largest tributary, the Susquehanna River, could arguably be called America’s River. But we certainly don’t treat it as a national treasure: This once magnificent watercourse, which runs through...
John Waldman talks about the challenges facing New York Harbor’s wildlife. New York Harbor has a long history that starts way back in the 1600s. It’s home to all kinds of species and wildlife, but throughout the 19th and 20th centuries the harbor was filled with trash and sewage sending the harbor on a downward...
APPLICATION DEADLINE AUGUST 15, 2014 The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) manages a system of 19 interconnected reservoirs that supply drinking water to over 9 million consumers in New York City and surrounding areas. NYCDEP’s Climate Change Integrated Modeling Project (CCIMP) is an ongoing...
A new book on urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services was published this fall, 2013, by Springer. This is the first comprehensive cross scale examination of the complex relationships between these processes. The volume was commissioned by the United Nations Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) and includes...
The Urban Sustainability Extension Service in the South Bronx The Urban Sustainable Extension Service (USES) will work with Sustainable South Bronx to engage South Bronx residents around issues of community sustainability. USES will implement a series of small-scale projects aimed at improving the pedestrian experience...
A note from John Waldman: “After six years of research and writing (and a lifetime of experiences and involvement with diadromous fishes!), I am happy to announce publication of Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations. The book is my attempt to re-inspire efforts to reverse a badly...
Prof. Ramasubramanian has been named an American Council on Education Fellow for the 2013-2014 year. The ACE Fellows Program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen institutions and leadership in American higher education by identifying and preparing promising senior faculty and administrators for responsible...
