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Sustainable Holiday Night Market
Annual Sustainable Holiday Market — featuring sustainable brands, local makers, and community partners. No registration required — just show up and shop small for good!
Sip & Spark: Lightning Talks on Sustainability
Spark + Sip is an evening of fast-paced, 5-minute lightning talks from NYC changemakers who are reimagining what a sustainable future looks like — from circular design and community composting to local food systems and creative reuse.
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Climate Week NYC Event
Climate Week NYC - Sip & Solutions Happy Hour and Facilitated Networking
Idealist.org
Sep 23 from 6:30pm to 9pm EDT
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A Sustainable Summer Social
Join us to celebrate the start of summer and hang out with other passionate sustainability community members. We’ll have local makers selling their sustainable goods and educators in the climate space helping you get involved in climate action.
Sip & Solutions - March 2025
Sip on refreshments while you socialize and network with other passionate members of your community. This is a facilitated networking event that includes topics around the climate crisis and how you can create change and make a difference.
Sip & Shop: A Sustainable Holiday Market
Shop, mingle, learn and enjoy local food and beverages at our third Sustainable Holiday Market!
Sip and Solutions: A Climate Themed Happy Hour Event
Sip on refreshments while you socialize and network with other passionate members of the Sustainability community!
This is a facilitated networking event that includes topics around the climate crisis and how you can create change and make a difference.
Attendees will break out into groups and spend about 20 minutes at each station. Each station will explore topics related to climate change and sustainability and will include sample conversation starters. We'll also have representatives from local and national organizations at the stations to help you get involved in that topic. Don't forget to grab a drink as you move on to the next one!
Sip & Socialize: A Sustainable Rooftop Happy Hour
Kick off the summer in NYC and fight climate change
Join us for an afternoon full of climate education and mingling with other passionate sustainability community members. We’ll have local makers selling their sustainable goods and educators in the climate space helping you get involved in climate action. Celebrate the start of summer with us!
There will be music, refreshments, snacks, and sustainability trivia!
Tickets will be released on Eventbrite soon. Check back for updates or follow @zerowaste.nyc for the latest news on our events.
April Workshop: A Celebration of Earth Month
Get your buzz on and talk about the pressing issues around climate change and how YOU can actually do something about it!
We’re hosting a happy hour and incorporating a speed dating style group talk activity so you can get real with other like-minded, passionate individuals who also want to make a change.
Each table will explore topics like renewable energy, sustainable fashion, and regenerative agriculture and will have interesting articles and sample questions. Plus, there will be representatives from local and national organizations at each table to help you get involved. And don't forget to grab a drink as you move to the next station!
And don’t worry, you do not need to be an expert on any of these topics! We want to foster conversation between people from all different perspectives, no matter what your background is.
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March Workshop: Sustainable and Ethical Fashion: A ReFashion Week NYC Event
Event details and panelists to be announced soon.
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January Workshop: Exploring "Throw-Away" Culture: A Fireside Chat w/ Robin Nagle & Maggie Lee
When a sanitation worker hauls away your trash bin and dumps it in a truck, all that garbage seems to magically disappear—but, as many of us know, that’s simply not the case. Where does our trash and recycling go? Why do we produce so much of it? Has it always been this way?
Robin Nagle, author of the book Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City, and Maggie Lee, Director of Cultural and Educational Programs at the Sanitation Foundation, hope to answer these questions and foster a dialogue about the origins of “throw-away” culture, the impacts it continues to have on New York City and our environment, and who should ultimately be held responsible.
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2nd Annual Sustainable Holiday Market
Shop, mingle, learn and enjoy local food and beverages at our 2nd annual Sustainable Holiday Market!
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How to Have a Low Waste Holiday Season
The holiday season doesn't need to be wasteful. Learn how to celebrate with a lower environmental footprint!
Join us for a lively discussion on this important topic.
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How Can Our Food System be More Sustainable?
How can we build a healthy, resilient, and sustainable global food system?
Join us for a lively discussion on this important topic.
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How You Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis: A Climate Week NYC Event
Wondering how you can help fight climate change?
What can you do as a single individual to help solve the biggest crisis of our lifetime?
Well, more than you think! Join us for a lively discussion on this important topic and learn how you can participate in the fight for climate justice and environmental protection on a local, state, and federal level. Hear from a panel of thought leaders, network with like-minded guests, and enjoy local food and drink in a beautiful space in Brooklyn.
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May Workshop: The Power of Reuse in a Circular Economy - A Circular City Week Event
May Workshop: The Power of Reuse in a Circular Economy - A Circular City Week Event
Panelists to be announced.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
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June Pop-Up
SAVE THE DATE for our June Pop-Up!
June 18, 2022
12pm - 4pm
More info to come!
April Workshop: Trends to Watch in Sustainable Fashion - A ReFashion Week NYC Event
Trends to Watch in Sustainable Fashion: A ReFashion Week NYC Event
Panelists to be announced.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE
March Workshop: How to Ease Into Low Waste Living
The term "zero waste" can be intimidating, but lowering your impact and living more sustainably doesn't have to be a complete upheaval of your life. This workshop will feature a panel of experts who have successfully made a transition to a low waste lifestyle. They'll share their tips and advice on how you too can start to make changes and more sustainable choices.
Panelists to be announced.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
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NYC Compost Ambassador Workshop
In partnership with DSNY, this workshop will provide simple, actionable ways that you can help increase the number of curbside composting sign-ups in your neighborhood and ultimately, help to expand the service across NYC.
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Sustainable Holiday Pop-Up
To promote sustainability and low waste during the holidays, Zero Waste NYC Workshop and Sanitation Foundation are teaming up with Farm To People to host a holiday pop-up!
Shop local, sustainable merchants and socialize with other community members in a beautiful warehouse space.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided, as well as fun activities like secondhand fashion demos, a mending workshop, and a zero waste gift wrapping station.
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How to Have a Low Waste Holiday Season
Learn how to lower your impact this holiday season.
Panelists to be announced soon.
Location: Patagonia, 426 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024
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Community Based Free Stores
The story behind this NYC initiative and how you can start one in your neighborhood.
Location: TBD
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What's New in Zero Waste? A Climate Week NYC Event
What's going on in the zero waste/sustainability in NYC? We talk about it all in this workshop!
Panelists will be announced soon.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
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Creative Ways to Compost Part II
A lot has happened since the curbside compost program was paused over a year ago in NYC. What did composting look like pre-COVID, throughout the pandemic, and what does the future hold?
Panelists will be announced soon.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
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Sustainable Food Systems Part II
Let's continue our conversation from December and talk about food waste, food equity, local food, and composting.
Panelists will be announced soon.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
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Innovation in Sustainability & Waste Part II: An Earth Day Event
Part II of our conversation around the amazing advancements happening in the sustainability world. Find out what's going on and how you can support innovative companies and brands that are changing the world.
Panelists will be announced soon.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Waste & Energy
This month, join us for a discussion on the heated topic of waste-to-energy. Our expert panelists will talk about the benefits and drawbacks of waste to energy and other ways in which waste and energy are interconnected.
Panelists:
Bob Guarnaccia: Vice-President - Major Accounts, Royal Waste Services, Inc.
Sylvia Khurrum: Senior Engineer in R&D at Con Edison
Jennifer McDonnell: Resource Recovery Program Manager | NYC Environmental Protection
Robin Nagle: Anthropologist-in-Residence, DSNY and Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies at NYU.
This is an official Circular City Week event! Find even more events at https://www.circularcityweek.com/events2021
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Zero Waste Fashion: A ReFashion Week NYC Event
Every year, to raise awareness about textile waste and provide fashionable solutions, The New York City Department of Sanitation’s donateNYC program hosts ReFashion Week. This month's workshop is about all things fashion from secondhand shopping, to supply chain, to end-of-life waste and equity and inclusivity within fashion.
Panelists will be announced soon.
*30% of proceeds from tickets sold for ALL of our workshops are donated to the Sanitation Foundation.
Check out our website and follow us on Instagram at @zerowastenycworkshop