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Ethical Reasoning and Place-based Learning Facilitator: Prof. Karen Goodlad Presented by BWRC at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Ethical Reasoning and Place-based Learning Facilitator: Prof. Karen Goodlad Presented by BWRC at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Keynote Lunch Speaker: Congressman Jerrold Nadler Website: https://nadler.house.gov/
Joanne Witty has had a long and varied career as a lawyer, environmentalist, political activist, and author. She has been a central figure in the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, as President of the Local Development Corporation that created its master plan, and as Vice-Chair of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation – the entity building
Join us for a lively conversation about environmental justice and gentrification along the Brooklyn waterfront when professors Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis discuss their new book, Green Gentrification:
The Red Hook Winery, located on a pier along the Brooklyn waterfront was founded in 2008. Come hear one of the winery’s three winemakers, Christopher Nicolson, speak about using grapes from New York State vineyards in the Finger Lakes and the L.I. North Fork regions to create a variety of unique wines that exhibit New
Panel discussion: Art at the Water’s Edge: Building Community along Brooklyn’s Waterfront Join us for a panel discussion of artists who use the Brooklyn waterfront as subject, inspiration, material, and place for their art. Moderated by BWRC’s Robin Michals, the panelists, each working in a different media, will explain what draws them to the waterfront
Two days before Earth Day 2018, the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) will present a full-day conference on what climate change has done, is doing, and will do to the
Join us on Friday, October 12th and hear representatives of Riverkeeper and the Newtown Creek Alliance discuss their comprehensive, four-part vision plan for the remediation and restoration of the Newtown Creek. The Plan emphasizes the importance of understanding the innate complexity of an industrial urban ecosystem, from storm surge vulnerability to community health outcomes. Learn
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There's still time to register for Living in Brooklyn: Housing along the Waterfront on Friday, April 12th. BWRC's full-day gathering will feature discussions on the future of affordable housing in Brooklyn's waterfront neighborhoods. As