NYU Wagner presents “ElectriCITY: The Future of the Sustainable Grid”
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Next Tuesday, March 29th, our very own Sara Jayanthi will be one of the moderators at NYU Wagner’s “ElectriCITY: The Future of the Sustainable Grid” forum.
This half-day forum, sponsored by Wagner Environmental Policy and Action, will examine the electricity system in New York City – where it comes from, how it’s delivered, and how it’s used. Industry leaders, policymakers, and academics will discuss challenges and solutions to integrating renewables into the grid as well as demand management and efficiency innovations.
Tuesday, March 29th
8:30am-12:30pm
The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue
2nd Floor
295 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
Register Now
Please visit wagner.nyu.edu/events/wepa-03-29-2011 for more information about this event.
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NYC The Future Metropolis Volume III
Thursday, March 17th, 2011| May 8, 2011 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
SAVE THE DATE:
Future Metropolis Volume III
“Water in New York”
May 8, 2011
5-7pm
University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002
Tickets on sale in Early April
Future Metropolis Volume III: “Water in New York” is part of the
New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for The New City,
running May 4-8, 2011.
For more information about the festival, please visit:
http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/
New York City The Future Metropolis is an ongoing series of events focused on creative thinkers who are using their expertise to make New York City a more sustainable place to live, work, and do business. Each event is an exciting, fast-paced showcase of pioneering ideas and cutting-edge research, presented in a way that both inspires innovation in green industry professionals and remains accessible to the general public.
The theme of the next installment in the series will be “Water in New York.” This theme will cover the water bodies surrounding the city, the ways that water gets used in the city, and the cultural significance of water to New York. The speakers will cover a wide range of topics that relate to water, for example: harbor ecology, rain/grey water harvesting, green infrastructure, the impact of hydrofracking on NYC’s water supply, creating an innovative waterfront, designing landscapes and buildings with water in mind, learning from and on the water, and art created with or in response to NYC’s water.
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Burning In the States: NYC Teens Go Solar
Monday, March 14th, 2011Courtesy of Morgan Robinson, one of the directors of Burning In the Sun (which had its premier at Solar 1 in 2009 as part of the Solar-Powered Film Series), we are proud to share this related video he put together. This 7-minute piece looks at a group of students from Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School who worked with Solar One’s Chris Neidl to make small-scale solar projects like lanterns and mobile charging units. It’s a wonderful look at the work of some wonderful students who want to find ways to bring these technologies to people in the developing world. Thanks, Morgan!
Burning In The Sun has gone on to screen all over the country, and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at Doc Utah last September. The movie can be bought on DVD via Indieflix and should be coming to Netflix soon, so we urge you to check it out.
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[im]pure essence: reflections on water by young artists at the 14th Street Y
Friday, March 11th, 2011| March 15, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
[im]pure essence is the result of a unique collaboration between the student artists of LaGuardia Arts High School; the community of the 14th Street Y; WATER, the secret life of objects, a multi-media climate change play focusing on water and its indispensable (and sometimes scary) role in human life; and Solar One, NYC’s green energy, arts and education center.
To create the work in the show, 14th Street Y staff collected stories, memories, myths and impressions about water from a variety of their constituents, including small children and seniors. The stories were then given to the WATER creative team, and passed on to the artists. Using mostly reclaimed and recycled materials from Materials for the Arts, the student-artists used the stories as a starting point for their work. The work is being displayed in the LABA gallery in the lobby of the Y, and has been starting many conversations among the Y community!
On Tuesday March 15, we’ll be having a reception with all the work on display, some drinks and snacks, activities like making origami creatures and collecting “water confessions” from our guests. These will be invaluable in helping us develop WATER: the secret life of objects, and increase our understanding of the essential role water plays in our human world.
The artists showing their work in the show are: Athena Beck, Rachel Berger, Cleo Bergman, Galeena, Grace Felton, Jade Johnson, Yasmin Kelly, Cindy Lee and Alyssa Rosete. Check out a preview below!
[im]pure essence Closing Reception
Tuesday March 15, 2011
7:00-9:00pm
At the 14th Street Y
344 East 14th Street between 1st and 2nd Aves
Free & Open to the Public
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NYC The Future Metropolis II – Now Online!
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011If you missed Solar One’s presentation of NYC The Future Metropolis back in February, or if you’d like to re-watch something you saw there, we’ve posted videos of all of the speakers on our YouTube channel. Here’s Solar One’s Diallo Shabazz talking about Green Jobs:
Head over to YouTube to check out the rest of them. And thank you to all of our speakers and everyone who came out – the event was a great success!
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