Explore the link between historic preservation and green design to see how preservation can enhance energy efficiency. This workshop will give owners/stewards of historic houses and multi-family properties tips on restoring their buildings in a way that is sensitive to the historic element and contributes to sustainability.
New York City has the slowest bus system in the country. Getting it to move faster requires re-imagining how buses operate in the city. Explore the options being piloted in New York, as well as successful Bus Rapid Transit models around the world, in a discussion moderated by Aaron Naparstek, editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. He will be joined by Joan Byron of the Pratt Center for Community Development and co-founder of COMMUTE; Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign; and Bruce Schaller, Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability at the New York City Department of Transportation.
Join Dan Barber, Executive Chef/Co-owner of Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Blue Hill; Michael Hurwitz, Director of Greenmarket; and Ian Marvy, Director and co-founder with Michael Hurwitz of Added Value and its Red Hook Community Farm, for a panel discussion on being a "locavore" in the country's largest metropolis. Gabrielle Langholtz, editor of Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, will moderate the conversation. Reservations required.
Ashok Gupta, Air & Energy Program Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, will moderate a discussion on practical near-term opportunities and barriers associated with the deployment of solar, wind, and nuclear technologies with Greg Kiss, Founding Partner, Kiss + Cathcart Architects; Peter Mandelstam, Founder and President, Bluewater Wind; and Gil Brown, professor and coordinator of the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Massachusetts. Presented in conjunction with Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City.
Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City will reveal the island of Mannahatta on September 12, 1609, the moment of Henry Hudson's arrival – a fresh, green new world at the moment of discovery. Through multimedia, historical artifacts, and maps, the exhibition looks at the rich landscape of the island and its transformation into a dense metropolis, where the ecological principles of diversity, density, and interdependence operate much as they did 400 years ago.
New York City played an important role in making the automobile an icon of modernism. Join Phil Patton, automobile design expert and co-curator of the Museum's exhibition Cars, Culture, and the City, for an in-depth look at how New York influenced the design of early cars and parkways and promoted speed and glamour from Gatsby's Rolls Royce to the Ford Mustang.
Ashok Gupta, Air & Energy Program Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, will moderate a discussion on practical near-term opportunities and barriers associated with the deployment of solar, wind, and nuclear technologies.
In the past decade the city has been the setting for some extraordinary projects aimed at bringing historic buildings back to life. This half-day symposium will showcase some of those projects, highlighting the various and sometimes controversial approaches to preserving the past while accommodating the needs of modern life. Panelists include interior designer Eric Cohler; interior designer Jamie Drake; architect Cleary Larkin of Beyer Blinder Belle; senior designer of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Frank Mahan; architectural historian Matthew Postal, and executive director of the Historic House Trust Franklin D. Vagnone. Join the panelist for a discussion on bringing New York historic building back.
This lecture and cocktail reception will be given in anticipation of the upcoming November 2009 exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. The event will be moderated by exhibition curator Donald Albrecht, and proceeds will benefit the installation, which will focus on the Finnish architect and his work in New York.
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