Sloth: Is Your City Making You Fat?

Join a panel of scientists, urban planners, and fitness experts for a talk on how designing and building better cities and towns may make us a healthier—and leaner—nation. Part of the Science and the Seven Deadly Sins Series.

Implications of A Data-Driven Built Environment

Our intent is to look at the potential data pool for the entire real estate industry and draw out the value between data sets and determine what data we should be collecting in order achieve sustainability and market transformation goals.

Nature and the City: What Good is Urban Conservation?

There's a new energy across the United States about recapturing nature in cities, but can these efforts rebuild biodiversity? Leading scientists, authors, and urban conservationists discuss the science behind and promise for today’s urban conservation efforts. The third installment of our four-part series Discourses on Nature and Society.

Finding the Needle in the Data Haystack: The Implications of a Data-Driven Built Environment

There is an increasing focus on policy, standards, and interoperability of building data. Without the proper tools, the virtual tsunami of building data can overwhelm potential users. This event draws out the market transformation opportunities.

Energy for the Next 20 Years: Protecting the Environment and Meeting Our Demands

How can Earth possibly meet its growing energy demands without destroying the environment? Experts on wind, nuclear, hydropower and other energy forms debate the most promising paths forward. The first installment of our four-part series Discourses on Nature and Society.

Sixth Annual New Energy Symposium

Keynote speakers will discuss challenges in new energy technologies. Entrepreneurs in emerging cleantech start-up companies will pitch their business plans to a panel of financial industry experts.

Trash Talk: Options for Converting Our Solid Waste to Energy

Waste-to-energy technologies are an emerging solution to solid waste disposal. Considering that most municipal solid waste (MSW) is destined for the land fill, does waste-to-energy offer a more sustainable option?

This event is sold out.

Is Nuclear Power a Plausible Long-term Option for New York State?

New York State has identified nuclear energy as a potential candidate for its long-term, clean-energy portfolio. This event examines the assumptions underlying its inclusion, prospects for financing it, and benefits that new nuclear technologies might deliver.

The True Cost of Water

The focus of this panel discussion is the importance of economic optimization of water usage in the present and in the future to establish long-term sustainability of water resources.

Emerging Infectious Diseases in Response to Climate Change

Climate change has led to higher rates of emerging infectious diseases worldwide, reemergence of diseases previously under control, and redistribution of diseases across the planet. This symposium examines these complex relationships.

Sustainable MTA: Beneficial Uses of Groundwater

The MTA pumps 8-13 million gallons of groundwater daily to keep subway tunnels dry. Currently, the water is treated as a liability and is routed into the city sewers. This panel discussion will explore possible beneficial uses of this groundwater.

New York City Before Europe

Hear these authors speak on the ecology and landscape of New York City prior to European settlement. Discussion of the human and environmental history of our region, which informs the sustainable use of local resources, will follow.

Green Science: Bioindustrial Processes

This highly interdisciplinary group brings together scientists and engineers with key stakeholders and policy makers from academia, business, and government who are interested in understanding the broad range of scientific methods and disciplines that underlie key environmental challenges. This year's focus will be on issues related to global warming with an emphasis on energy sources, energy storage, and carbon management.

Carbon Capture: IGCC and TIPS

This meeting will present a panel of experts who will describe current approaches to capturing CO2, including Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) and ThermoEnergy Integrated Power System (TIPS) technologies.