NYC events this week...

Monday Nov 17, 7pm
Drill, Baby, Drill? The Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Reserve and NYC's Drinking Water - Weighing the Risks.
Speakers: Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, NRDC and Joe Levine, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
http://solar1.org/events/greenrenter/
RSVP by calling 212.505.6050 or by e-mail to greenrenter@solar1.org

Tuesday, November 18, 12 to 2pm
Purpose in Business: Women's Career Priorities
1633 Broadway @ 50th St. 36th Floor
Women's Network for a Sustainable Future
Pre-registration required: www.wnsf.org

November 19, 2008,7:00-8:30PM
Biodiesel and New York: Considering the Prospects, Challenges, and Controversies in the Five Borough Context
NYU's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor.
* Brent Baker, President and CEO, Tristate Biodiesel
* Daniel Falcone, Vice-Chair of Policy, The Bio-Fuels Industry Committee, The Environmental Business Association of New York
* Hon. Council Member James Gennaro, 24th District, Committee on Environmental Protection, Chairman.
* John Nettleton, Senior Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
* Luis Torres, Associate Director for Community and Public Affairs, Center for Sustainable Energy, Bronx Community College, City University of New York.
www.solar1.org

Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 8:30AM-12:15PM
The Politics of Food: A Conference on New York's Next Policy Challenge
Registration 8:30AM-9:15AM
Morning Session 9:15AM-10:30AM
Breakout Sessions 10:45AM-12:15PM
Featured Speakers
Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
Maya Wiley, Esq., Director, Center for Social Inclusion
H.E. Father Miquel d'Escoto Brockmann, President, United Nations General Assembly
Presentation
Thomas Forster, New School Food Studies Program Faculty
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/special_events/politics_of_food/schedule.html

November 19th from 7-8:45 PM
Can NYC Become an Exemplary Eco-City?
Cantor Ballroom, Kaufman Building, NYU Stern
Councilman James F. Gennaro, Ariella Rosenberg Maron and Greenopia's
Janna Olson

Friday, November 21, 1:00 to 4:30pm
New York Host City Preparatory Meeting for 2009 UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) Sessions on Sustainable Agriculture
at Baha'i International Community United Nations Office 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120 (first floor), near the northeast corner of First Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets
To discuss initial plans for the Intergovernmental Planning Meeting (February 23-27) and CSD 17 (May 4-15), 2009
RSVP ipsa@igc.org
Notes of the meeting will be available at http://www.sustainablefoodmonitor.org