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We meet every month in different locations around New York City. Newcomers of every discipline are welcome. For more information, join our email list. Recent Events Greening Your Office Date: Tuesday, November 7, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Location: Cook+Fox Architects (641 6th Avenue, 8th Floor) Are you interested in learning how to take the first step in making your office “green”? Join o2NYC for a discussion on eco-friendly strategies in the workplace. This event will begin with a tour of Cook+Fox Architects, whose new office in Chelsea is striving to achieve a Platinum rating from the US Green Building Council under LEED for Commercial Interiors. See the office’s new green roof and learn about materials, indoor air quality, energy conservation and other green strategies, as well as in-house policies for purchasing, printing, staff education, etc. The tour will be followed by an open discussion on how to lead the effort (or build on existing initiatives) in your own office. About Cook+Fox Read about Cook+Fox's work for Bank of America Open Forum on Droog Design with o2NYC, at the Museum of Arts & Design Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006 6:00 PM Location: Museum of Arts & Design (40 West 53rd St, New York, NY) o2NYC played host, in collaboration with the Museum of Arts & Design, to an open forum on internationally renowned Dutch design consortium, Droog Design. Jennifer van der Meer, o2NYC's Chair, led a discussion on how Droog’s alternative vision of design challenges our thinking about materiality, physicality, and consumption, and the implications it has for sustainable design. Attendees were encouraged to share their response to the exhibition. A reception sponsored by Risqué, a New York City-based design research consultancy, followed the discussion. About Droog Design Droog Design in Businessweek About Risqué Consulting CitySol 2006 Date: Sunday, September 24th, 2-6 pm Please visit the new CitySol 2006 site o2NYC's Annual Summer Picnic o2NYC held its annual summer picnic on Thursday, August 24th in Brooklyn's Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. With its view of the Manhattan skyline, the Park was a great place to watch the free film offered by "Movies with a View", and discuss the latest green issues. Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park "Movies with a View" Reception at Bitforms Gallery with organic winery, Appellation Wine Co., and organic chocolatier, Green & Black's Ltd Date: Wednesday, July 26, 6:30 - 8pm Location: Bitforms Gallery (529 W 20th St., between 10th and 11th Ave.) o2NYC had a great turnout for our July Meeting-Reception at Bitforms Gallery, where people enjoyed fine organic wine served by Scott Pactor, owner (and wine connoisseur) of Appellation Wine Company. Scott offered a sampling of organic, sustainable, and biodynamic wines from France, Austria, and Chile, which were accompanied by an assortment of Green and Black’s premium organic chocolates. And the dynamic exhibit of award-winning work by Bjoern Schuelke and R. Luke Dubois’s solar kinetic exhibit, made for a very dynamic and successful venue. Bitforms Gallery Appellation Wine Green & Black's Ltd HauteGREEN 2006 
From all accounts, HauteGREEN was a great success! The exhibit at 70 North 6th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ran from May 20th through its culmination with a reception the evening of May 22nd, which was attended by some 700 people, including designers, ICFF-goers, and press from all over the world. It showcased the best in sustainable design, from furniture, lighting, and housewares, to fashion and accessories. Each of the 40 pieces on exhibit was chosen from over 200 submissions, by jurors Kimberly Oliver, Principal of American Success Machinery, Graham Hill, founder of treehugger.com, and well-known design writer, Aric Chen. On Saturday, Kakee Scott organized a discussion with about eight of the featured designers, which focused on their work, design process, and strategies to further enable sustainability. Some good news to report is that we expect to get some great coverage for the exhibit in coming months, from prominent design publications including Dwell, Blueprint, the London Observer, and Surface. Please check the site for updates on any related articles that may be available. Of course, HauteGREEN would not have even been possible without the selfless efforts of so many people, so we would like to thank Bart Bettencourt, Kimberly Oliver, and Rebecca Silver, who collaborated in producing the exhibit. And we would also like to thank Kakee, for planning the discussion on green design on opening day, Warren for his great design for the HauteGREEN website, and Alice, Ben, Chris, Colleen, Danny, Hope, Kelli, Kiel, Martin, Matt, Maureen, and Rich, for putting in long volunteer hours to make it all happen. o2NYC Monthly meetings Wednesday, April 26th, 6:30-8:00 pm Eco-library discussion group At the offices of Perkins Eastman 115 Fifth Avenue at 19th St., 3rd Floor A first look at o2NYC's new ecodesign book list developed by o2NYC board member, designer, and Parson's instructor, Erika Doering, which will be posted to our site soon. Attendees helped inform the list and eachother with recommendations and reviews of books from their own eco-design libraries. o2NYC got in touch with the graphic design industry at its booth at AIGA NY's Grow Conference on Saturday, March 24, 2006. 9 am- 6:30 pm. Much thanks to o2NYC member and Grow Conference organizer, Marc Alt for including us, and to Don Carli from the Institute for Sustainable Communications for his help. Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Business coaching for eco-entrepreneurs with Stefan Doering of Best Coaches, Inc. Co-hosted with Green Ground Zero. Stefan Doering of Best Coaches, Inc., ran this workshop on the basic steps to organize and run a group support team using his program. The course was geared specifically to environmental entrepreneurs, in both small businesses and corporations. Stefan runs 90 day team coaching programs for entrepreneurs and teaches environmental entrepreneurialism at Columbia University. Visit the Best Coaches website. 
Thursday, February 9, 2006 6:00 - 7:30 PMBeyond Green Exhibit visit and forum At the Museum of Arts and Design - 40 West 53rd Street Free museum entrance for o2NYC members (with card), pay-as-you-wish for all others A gallery visit and public forum hosted by o2NYC and the Museum of Arts and Design on the new exhibit, Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, which explores how sustainable design philosophies have resonated with an emerging generation of international artists. Several of our members, including our previous co-chair, Bess Williamson and artist Jackie Brookner, led a discussion about the exhibit and current topics in environmental art. Beyond Green is co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. Running February 2, 2006 - May 7, 2006 at the Museum of Arts & Design. Visit their website at www.madmuseum.org.  
Tuesday, December 13, 6-11 pm, Green Drinks Holiday Party Co-Hosted by: o2NYC, Green Home NYC, AIA COTE, Green Ground Zero, Brooklyn Green Drinks, and Greenlinks at Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring Street 
Thursday, October 20, 2005 7 - 8:30 pm At the Municipal Art Society, 457 Madison Avenue between 50th and 51st. o2NYC hosted a green graphic design and packaging roundtable, bringing together several of New York's green-minded graphic designers including Elena Ruano Kanidinc, Cynthia Fetty, Julia Reich, Marc Alt and others from AIGA NYC Minneapolis-based designer (and o2-USA) liaison) Wendy Jedlicka and others for a discussion of the big green topics and a sharing of information, resources and advice. In addition, Wendy Jedlicka gave us a report from her attendance at the Sustainable Packaging Forum in Philadelphia.  CitySol! Solar music party, green power sign-up drive and ecodesign market, Saturday, October 1, 2005. 1-7 pm at Solar1 in Stuyvesant Cove Park 2420 FDR Drive (at 23rd Street)
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Thursday, September 22, 2005. 6:30-8:30 pm. At Green Map System's offices, 131 Essex #2B.Alistair Fuad-Luke released an updated edition of his "Eco Design Handbook" this past April, a comprehesive guide to 570 green products and 125 green materials. He stopped in with o2NYC to lead a discussion on 'how sustainability thinking expands the role of design.' Thursday, September 15, 2005, 7 pm - 9 pm, 457 Broome Street, No. 9 (at Mercer St.) All about our favorite ecodesign site- treehugger.com Graham Hill, creator of treehugger.com and o2NYC member spoke with us about the progress of treehugger.com from it's beginning one year ago to it's current state- a massive international database of green design and a constant feed of the latest and greatest green tidbits achieving 10,000 unique hits every day. Graham gathered feedback on the site to help inform future designs for it. Thursday, August 18, 2005, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm at the Slow Food USA office- 20 Jay Street, Third Floor, Room 313 Annual picnic at Empire- Fulton Ferry park under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges 7:45- 9:00 pm. Eco-design show and tell: Attendees gave short presentations of their own green design project or a favorite eco-design example to show to the group at this month's show and tell. Afterward, we gathered for a late summer potluck picnic on the Brooklyn waterfront. Thursday, July 28, 2005. 6:30-8:30 pm. A green retail shop hop! o2NYC visited two of New York's greenest retail shops for an inside look- 3R Living in Brooklyn, and IIKH in Manhattan. Mark and Samantha from 3RLiving and Jim from IIKH gave us some background on the products in the store, how and from where they select products, how they market themselves and their products, what their customers ask and want, what criteria they use for products, and what their success stories and obstacles have been. More past meetings... Assignment: Green In 2003, o2NYC hosted Assignment: Green, an exhibit and symposium on green design education in New York City, at the Municipal Art Society. The curated exhibit, held from March 13 - April 29, 2003, covered New York area college level student work and spanned several design fields including architecture, planning, interior design, product/industrial design, fashion, and graphics/communication design as well as related business and policy fields. Read more. Green events in NYC. Please link to these websites for calendars of other green events in NYC. green-links' events page GreenhomeNYC's events page |
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