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September
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Climate Week NYC: A Talk with Bill McKibbenBill
McKibben's
groundbreaking
1989
classic,
The
End
of
Nature,
first
brought
the
idea
of
global
warming
to
public
consciousness.
But
now
the
stakes
are
even
higher-as
climate
change
shrinks
the
spaces
where
civilization
can
exist,
and
technologies
such
as
artificial
more...
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| 201BOT807 | 09/26 | Th | 10:00am-11:00am | McKibben | NYBG | |
October
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21st Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: All Three SectionsThree outstanding landscape designers from around the world - Kim Wilkie, Daniel Vasini, and Andrea Cochran - showcase their signature projects, working methods, and design philosophies. This year's influential trio feel passionately about the need to co-design with nature and more... | |||||
| 202LAN801A | 10/07 | Mo | 6:30pm-7:30pm | Wilkie Vasini Cochran, FASLA | SCAN | |
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21st Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: Kim WilkieAs pressures on food, water, and atmosphere intensify, the responsibilities and concerns of landscape architecture are increasing as well. It is more about the life in the soil than the polish on the pavers. In his work, Kim Wilkie breathes more... | |||||
| 202LAN801B | 10/07 | Mo | 6:30pm-7:30pm | Wilkie | SCAN | |
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Sir Robert Watson: Saving a Livable World: Andrew Carnegie Distinguished LectureLast May the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published its comprehensive, landmark report on the state of our natural world — and its implications for species, ecosystems, and society are dire.Vital ecosystems are deteriorating more more... | |||||
| 202GAR817 | 10/10 | Th | 6:00pm-8:00pm | Watson | CHRISTIES | |
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21st Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: Daniel Vasini"Landscape architecture is about illusion," says Daniel Vasini. "You create an illusion when you see it from far away, when you get closer, when you're under it. Creative Director in New York for award-winning international design firm West 8, Vasini more... | |||||
| 202LAN801C | 10/21 | Mo | 6:30pm-7:30pm | Vasini | SCAN | |
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A Gardening Life: James Alexander-Sinclair"Gardens are never finished and most of the pleasure is in their creation rather than their completion." So says James Alexander-Sinclair, one of the UK's foremost garden designers and one who relishes collaborating with his clients. He will take us more... | |||||
| 202LAN265A | 10/22 | Tu | 1:00pm-3:00pm | Alexander-Sinclair | NYBG | |
November
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21st Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: Andrea Cochran"The edges become diaphanous, the spaces ephemeral." Andrea Cochran, FASLA, blurs lines - between nature and the built environment, between exterior and interior, between our need for expansion and for refuge. Her landscapes have a permeable quality and make visitors more... | |||||
| 202LAN801D | 11/04 | Mo | 6:30pm-7:30pm | Cochran, FASLA | SCAN | |
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A Call to Action: Protecting Earth's BiodiversityA recent UN report predicts that climate change, invasive species, pollution, and other anthropogenic disturbances will have a disastrous effect on biodiversity worldwide. Any careful observer of nature in our region has witnessed significant changes to our local flora over more... | |||||
| 202HRT839 | 11/15 | Fr | 10:00am-3:30pm | Tallamy Westbrooks Sears, Ph.D. | NYBG | |
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The Art of Photographing Landscapes: Ngoc Minh NgoNgoc Minh Ngo's images of gardens and landscapes -from Lowther Castle in England to the wildflowers of Morocco-go "beyond mere beauty and into the sublime." With illustrations of her own work, she will demonstrate how she developed her poetic vision more... | |||||
| 202LAN265B | 11/19 | Tu | 1:00pm-3:00pm | Ngo | NYBG | |
December
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Farming in the Concrete Jungle: Ben FlannerCo-founder of Brooklyn Grange, the world's largest rooftop soil farm, Ben Flanner shares his insights about the future of urban agriculture and what it takes to run a commercial farm on manufactured land. Located on three roofs in New York more... | |||||
| 202LAN265C | 12/17 | Tu | 1:00pm-3:00pm | Flanner | NYBG | |
January
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A Gathering of Stones: Dan SnowStone underlies all earthly life. It is grist for loam and the bedrock of megacities. But because it's so ubiquitous, it tends to disappear in plain sight. Dan Snow's work brings stone into sharp focus by elevating this humble, natural more... | |||||
| 203LAN265D | 01/21 | Tu | 1:00pm-3:00pm | Snow | NYBG | |
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20th Annual Winter Lecture Series: The Garden Came First: All Three SectionsThis year's series spans styles and settings to showcase the distinctive home gardens of three celebrated gardeners, designers, and plantsmen — Deborah Nevins, Isabel Bannerman, and Sean Hogan. Whether a private retreat, a romantic dreamscape or a plant collector's paradise, more... | |||||
| 203GAR801A | 01/30 | Th | 10:00am-11:30am | Nevins Bannerman Hogan | NYBG | |
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The Garden Came First: Deborah NevinsDeborah Nevins is one of the world's most sought-after landscape designers—creating ambitious, innovative projects for high-profile clients worldwide—yet her own, understated two-acre space on Long Island's East End is intimate and contemplative. The house and gardens were built to maximize more... | |||||
| 203GAR801B | 01/30 | Th | 10:00am-11:30am | Nevins | NYBG | |
February
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Plants for Reclaimed Land: Andi PettisHow do you decide which plant species work best on a tough site? Which should be removed, which contained, which cultivated? Drawing on her experience turning once-feral urban landscapes such as Governors Island and the High Line into thriving natural more... | |||||
| 203LAN265E | 02/18 | Tu | 1:00pm-3:00pm | Pettis | NYBG | |
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The Garden Came First: Isabel BannermanTrematon Castle, Cornwall, UKWith a body of work that is dramatic, romantic, and grounded in classical tradition, Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been called "mavericks in the grand manner, touched by genius" and " the Bonnie and Clyde of more... | |||||
| 203GAR801C | 02/27 | Th | 10:00am-11:30am | Bannerman | NYBG | |
March
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Federal Twist: James Golden's Daring Dance with NatureJames Golden set out to create a wet prairie in western Jersey. Faced with heavy clay, standing water, and a derelict woodland setting, he didn't mulch or amend the soil or spray herbicide. Instead, he planted right into the existing more... | |||||
| 203LAN265F | 03/17 | Tu | 1:00pm-3:00pm | Golden | NYBG | |
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The Garden Came First: Sean HoganPlantsman extraordinaire Sean Hogan has nurtured a thriving horticulture community in the Pacific Northwest, altering that region's perspective about plants, as well as long-held ideas across the U.S. and Europe. Hogan's former home-a "garden with house attached" squeezed onto a more... | |||||
| 203GAR801D | 03/26 | Th | 10:00am-11:30am | Hogan | NYBG | |
