Join us for a night of pop-up performance, visual art, music and libations to come together and support organizations doing work for the environment, for climate awareness and to inspire and incite our own calls to action.
Our debut event on April 30th in DUMBO will showcase over 50 business models that value environmental and social initiatives by bringing like-minded organizations together for commerce, arts, and education.
Come join us at EXPO Gowanus: a neighborhood carnival of art, science, and toxic waste. Learn about issues facing our neighborhood, while having a fun day in the park!
The NYC Food Waste Fair is bringing together sustainability experts and the food industry to learn how to reduce costs and get the most out of our food, while helping New York City’s environment.
Join the NYC Compost Project and other community partners on Saturday, August 12 (rain date Sunday, August 13), for our Food Waste Reduction Bike Tour! Using the EPA’s Food Reduction hierarchy, this bike tour will visit projects across the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens that are actively pursuing these concepts.
Come share what you’ve been experiencing with the changing climate in your garden and discuss what to do about it with Dr. Darcy Telenko, regional vegetable extension specialist for the Cornell Vegetable Program, who currently serves twelve western New York counties, where she focuses on fresh market vegetable production, weed management, and climate change resiliency.
Join Dreamit Ventures and AgTech X for networking and discussion with the visionaries who are reimagining urban rooftops for a more sustainable future.
As a follow-up to our December 11th panel on The Future of Green Infrastructure, this class will examine a range of topics as they pertain to Green Roofs and Solar Green Roofs.
Would you like to support the expansion of green businesses in your community? Local leaders can play a key role in helping green businesses thrive in their communities through planning, outreach, and incentives.
From the organizers: Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! Bring seeds to swap—seeds you have saved yourself from plantings, half-used favorite packs or never-opened things you found you couldn't use. We are offering seeds collected in our OSH landscape & gardens (pollinator plants, job's tears, agastache, etc.), leftovers that we re-ordered new, unusual things people have given us…
image courtesy Lisa Nett From the organizers: Get outside and appreciate trees! Embrace tree identification using bark, tree form, and other dangly bits as clues. Search for signs of Spring in the trees! Walks meet rain or shine. This walk will take place in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and the exact meeting location will be…
Inside the warmth of the Brooklyn Grange's indoor loft classroom, Carin will provide you with a crash course in apiculture, walking participants through a brief history of beekeeping, the issues around beekeeping today, and the importance of apiculture in maintaining a healthy food system.
This year’s conference will lead community conversations regarding issues of urban ecology, wellness, stewardship, and the connections required of concerned citizens engaged in transforming lives and neighborhoods. In addition to workshops, panel discussions, breakout sessions, and more, this year’s Making Brooklyn Bloom will mark the conference’s return to the Palm House, where visitors are invited to network with dozens of NYC greening organizations.
In early spring the edible seedlings and young shoots of flavorful invasive plants like garlic mustard, day lilies, ground elder, and mugwort are beginning to show themselves. Come and learn to spot them on a brisk walk in Prospect Park.
UNDERSTORY is a plant lab, urban ecology event and workshop series to be held in Brooklyn, New York on April 28 & 29, 2018.
