| September 24, 2009 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 6:00 pm |
Tomorrow, from 11:30 am to 6:00 pm, head over to the Green Brooklyn Green City event. Alongside the Greenmarket farmers’ market, attendees can visit interactive exhibitor booths, tour the greenmarket, make art from recycled products, attend a free workshop, drop their textiles for recycling or a large-scale textile sculpture and more.
Workshops include:
The State of the Climate
12:00pm-1:00pm, Court Room in Borough Hall
Is the doomsday scenario inevitable? Or is there still time to turn things around? Leaders in the field will discuss the science of climate change and its impacts on a local and global scale.
Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Hugh Hough, Presenter, The Climate Project; President, Green Team USA
Dr. William Solecki, Professor of Urban Environmental Change, Hunter College; Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
Green Your Business
1:30pm-2:30pm, Court Room in Borough Hall
Discover new innovations in green buildings in New York City, implementable practices to green your operations from the ground up, and connect with the resources needed to minimize the impact of your own business.
Vanessa Knight, Director, Sustainable Business Network of New York City
Andrew Kimball, President and CEO, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Jim Holiber, General Manager, Green Depot
Local vs. Organic: Why We Care
3:00pm-4:00pm, Court Room in Borough Hall
You’re in the grocery store with an ear of locally and conventionally grown corn in one hand and an ear of organic corn from across the country. What do you do? Join experts in a lively discussion on how we grow and get our food.
Michael Hurwitz, Director, Greenmarket Program
Anna Lappe, Bestselling author and noted environmentalist
Justone Bossert, Red Jacket Orchards
For more information, visit: http://www.cenyc.org/greenbrooklyngreencity
