"The Future Now: Energy Progress in the 21st Century” is the guiding theme of this year’s Energy Symposium, organized by students of CBS and SIPA. Several hundred participants will explore how key drivers are impacting the energy business and policy-making and how innovation can deliver the necessary energy progress to avoid a looming energy crisis. To learn more about the Symposium, please click here: http://www.cuenergysymposium.com

Discover the natural world in the midst a thriving urban industrial park on this bicycle and walking tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where we will explore New York City’s waterways, terrestrial ecosystems and urban farms. This two-hour bicycle tour is offered to private groups on weekends, subject to availability. Public bicycle tours are offered 1-2 Sundays of October in the afternoons and evenings.

When: Friday, October 25, 2013 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Where: The New School Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (Room I202), Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street Register at http://lovinsatparsons.eventbrite.com/ To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Amory B. Lovins, one of the world's leading experts on energy systems, will give a talk on how to imagine a world without fossil fuels, without climate change, and with safe, affordable energy for all. He will demonstrate how smart businesses are creating an explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels, and how the US can get completely off oil and coal by 2050.