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Upcoming Event: An Evening With Andrew Revkin, Science Writer for The New...

Including Discussion with Queens College Experts What made the location of a city desirable in the past was certainly based on accessibility to water. It is no coincidence that most large cities are–or...

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CISC on WNYC

And Reporting Live from the Better West Coast Apologies to readers who have been looking to the Sustainable Cities Blog for upcoming events, running commentary and all things green and considered in...

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Governors Island Kick Off Tomorrow!

It is Going to be Hot…Literally Join CISC as we bring in the real start to our summer at Governors Island for the 3rd annual Science, Art Exhibition and Lecture Series. First up is Laura...

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Cities Respond to Climate Change

At the New School Lots of talk of urbanization. Lots of talk of climate change. We need more talk about the two together. Solar 1 does their part in talking about the need for dealing with our botched...

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Electric Fish Deliveries

Supported in Part by CUNY I recently heard about an exciting initiative that in part exists thanks to our friends over at The Center for Sustainable Energy. The project is actually a van–an electric...

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Who Opens their Windows in the Winter?

Or rather, Who Doesn’t? Starting this week, the Sustainable Cities blog will feature one post a week (on Tuesdays) that deals more with the day in and day out sustainability experience of New Yorkers....

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Stimulus and Remediation

How Brownfield Clean Ups Efforts are Benefiting Happy monday readers. If you celebrated last week with non-pork or yesterday with pork products, happy holidays. I am just coming from The First Annual...

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Curb Catastrophic Waste in Your Home

Our regular readers have probably noticed that for the last few weeks we have been posting about upcoming events being held on Governors Island. These have all been sponsored and organized by our host...

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The Hudson Quadricentennial

If you haven’t heard by now, the Institute is hosting a full day tribute to and celebration of Henry Hudson’s voyage on the Hudson 400 years ago. Ours is with a twist though. We aren’t interested only...

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PlaNYC 2.0 is seeking your input

PlaNYC was officially unveiled on Earth Day 2007 as a constellation of objectives to make a “Greaner, Greater New York,” including steps to reduce the city’s total carbon footprint by 30% by 2030....

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