Climate Change Tours in NYC

The 2025 schedule will be posted in March for site visits with experts and practitioners across a broad range of climate change topics.

I will post the spring 2025 schedule for climate change tours in NYC in March.

Each tours will consist of a visit to one or two sites that relate to a wide range of climate-change topics.

The goals for these site visits are for you to:

  • See first-hand what is happening on many climate change fronts. 

  • Benefit from a deep dive into these topics with experts and practitioners.

  • Pose your questions during these informal discussions.

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Climate Change Topics for Site Visits

Here is a list of some of the topics and sites that will likely be included:

  • Sustainable design and engineering for homes and buildings

  • Sustainable design and engineering for parks and public spaces

  • Resiliency projects - private, institutional and municipal

  • Energy efficiency strategies and tools

  • Home and building retrofits

  • Innovation in modeling, engineering, prototyping and prefabrication

  • Renewable energy projects (solar, wind, geothermal, battery) and utility initiatives

  • Developments in public transportation, electric vehicles and micromobility

  • Building out electric charging infrastructure for cars, trucks and buses

  • Reconfiguring our public spaces for multiple uses

  • Climate tech, green manufacturing and the circular economy

  • Sustainable fashion and textile recycling

  • Vessels and port operations

  • Watersheds, filtration plants and delivering drinking water to the city

  • Wastewater treatment and stormwater infrastructure projects

  • Green rooftops: rainwater harvesting and renewable energy

  • Solid waste, recycling and composting

  • Urban farms - rooftop, hydroponic and more