CUSAP x Climate Week Closing Celebration

Saturday, September 25, 2021, 6 - 10pm

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As part of Cooper Union x Climate Week 2021, Paul Garrin AR'82 will discuss smart local energy solutions for the Lower East Side centering around avoided costs, retrofitting, and microgrids, based on a practice he calls “Ecolibrium” This will be followed by a celebration of Climate week, and Cooper’s climate initiatives with music, vegan food, and a plant raffle hosted by CUSAP, as well as a natural dyes activity/ workshop hosted by BioArt lab. Bring your clothes, fabric, or paper to dye, or use some of our second-hand finds. 

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Cooper Union x Climate Week 2021 is a series of lectures and events that aim to engage our community in assessing the role of the climate crisis in our day-to-day lives. This year, we'll focus on the themes of reconstruction and deconstruction as we imagine all of the work ahead of us. The Cooper Climate Coalition aims to promote curiosity, interdisciplinary dialogue, and sustained engagement with the climate crisis.  

Located at 41 Cooper Square, on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.