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100+ Free Online Courses to Learn about the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Laurie Pickard Sep 3rd, 2019
In 2015, the United Nations came together to adopt Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) covering topics such as health, inequality, climate change, and more. Since their adoption, the SDGs have served as a platform for organizing global, national, local, and individual action.
With the help of SDG Academy, a free online education platform from the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Class Central has pulled together a giant list of courses that will teach you about the SDGs. The SDG Academy alone has produced 20 courses on cross-cutting issues related to the SDGs – such as human rights, resilience, and environmental security. This list also includes courses sourced from various other MOOC platforms, all organized by which goal they address. Overall, SDG Academy helped us to identify more than 100 courses on sustainable development from global universities including Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and MIT.
Whether you're interested in poverty reduction, human rights, food security, public health, education, or any other sustainable development topic, these courses will help you join efforts to achieve prosperity for both people and planet.
SDG 1: No Poverty
SDG 2: No Hunger
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 5: Gender Equality
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 12: Responsible Production and Consumption
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals
Cross-Cutting the SDGs
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
The Challenges of Global Poverty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology via edX
This is a course for people who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty. Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? What is economic life like when living under a dollar per day? Are the poor always hungry? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? Is microfinance invaluable or overrated? Learn what economists have to say about these and other questions.
From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding Economic Development
University of Oxford via edX
How can poor societies become prosperous and overcome obstacles to do so? Professor Sir Paul Collier is one of the world's leading scholars on this question, and in this economics course you will have the opportunity to learn from him directly.
Improving Children's Lives: Reducing Child Poverty and Inequality Around the World
University of York via FutureLearn
Why do some countries do better than others in giving their children a good start to life? Can governments improve children's lives by learning from the best performing countries? This course explores these questions using a combination of articles, videos, animations, articles, interactive data visualisations, discussions, and research "bites".
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Organic Farming for Sustainable Agricultural Production
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and NPTEL via Swayam
Organic farming is a system of agricultural production based on ecological principles, promotion of biodiversity, biological cycles, and organic matter recycling to maintain and improve soil fertility and environmental sustainability. This course is designed to train students on organic farming practices, quality analysis of the products, environmental impact assessment, and health benefit of organic food.
Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Coursera
There is a growing global need in agricultural production for a workforce that is capable of integrating knowledge of animal health with an understanding of consumer preferences in the context of economic reality, business efficiency, and ethical constraint. In this course, you will learn about the impact of infectious disease on sustainable animal-based food production by understanding the science of growth, immunity, and infection and by learning the problem-solving skills needed to advance animal health and food production through optimal management practices.
Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors
We face the immense challenge of feeding over 9 billion people by the year 2050. To meet these demands, yields will have to more than double using the same amount of natural resources. But each year, estimates suggest that 1/3 of all food produced is lost or wasted, making postharvest loss a critical global food security and sustainability issue of today. This course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical, technical, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally.
Inclusive Energy Systems – Exploring Sustainable Energy for All
Delft University of Technology via edX
For the first time in history, the number of world citizens without access to electricity services has dropped below one billion, but still more than 2.8 billion people lack access to clean and affordable cooking fuels. Rather than tackling the technological dimension of the formidable challenge to provide an inclusive energy system with renewable and climate-neutral energy resources, this course will focus on its social and institutional dimension by introducing the principle of the 4 As of energy services — Accessibility, Availability, Affordability, and Acceptability — which will enrich your perspective as an engineering professional.
Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Sustainability
SDG Academy
This course explores the key challenges to ensuring a healthy and sustainable diet for our growing world population, as well as the central role of agriculture in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Starting with a historical overview of the past 50 years of agricultural development, the course highlights key technological advancements and interventions to produce more and better quality food while simultaneously achieving social and environmental goals.
Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective
The Mediterranean region is one of the most biodiverse in the world, home to a complex and intricate patchwork of cultures, climates, and cuisines. This course discusses the challenges and opportunities of the agricultural sector in the Mediterranean basin. It summarizes global-to-local challenges related to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); outlines the history and culture of agriculture ; explains agricultural data with a focus on rural development models and value creation; explores EU policy frameworks and international agreements related to food and agriculture in the Mediterranean; and highlights emerging opportunities in the sector.
Sustainable Food Security: Food Access
Wageningen University via edX
Learn the basics of food access decision-making. In other words, who decides what ends up on your plate. Spoiler alert: it's not just you!
Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production
Learn the basics of crop production and find out how to feed the future world population without depleting our planet's resources!
Sustainable Soil Management: Soil for Life
Learn why soil is so important, how it's being threatened and what we can do to protect this natural resource so vital to our lives.
University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
This course explores the concepts driving current food production science (population growth, urbanization, emerging affluence, resource constraints, and underlying biological limits) with a focus on livestock production. Each of the major food animal species (dairy, swine, beef, and poultry) will be covered in terms of their universal life cycles, constraints to production and emerging societal issues.
Global Food Security: Addressing the Challenge
Lancaster University via FutureLearn
How we will feed an extra two billion people by the middle of this century? Focusing both on UK agriculture and on food supply chains in other parts of the world, this course examines how food has shaped our environmental and social landscapes.
Systems Science and Obesity
Johns Hopkins University via Coursera
Systems science has been instrumental in breaking new scientific ground in diverse fields such as meteorology, engineering and decision analysis. However, it is just beginning to impact public health. This course introduces basic tools in systems science to better understand the obesity epidemic in human populations. Learn how a systems approach can be applied to other non-communicable diseases both nationally and internationally.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Global Public Health
This course covers the basic tenets of public health and the importance of social determinants, the global burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and the appropriate public health responses. Learn about the importance of health systems in promoting the health of populations, and the different methods employed around the world to achieve universality in access to health services.
Health and Society
Harvard University via edX
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the major social variables—social class, race, gender, poverty, income distribution, social networks/support, community cohesion, the work and neighborhood environment—that affect population health.
An Introduction to Global Health
University of Copenhagen via Coursera
This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today.
Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective
Four physician-anthropologists – Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, Anne Becker, and Salmaan Keshavjee – draw on experience working in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Americas to investigate the field of global health, how global health problems are defined and constructed, and how global health interventions play out in both expected and unexpected ways.
Childbirth: A Global Perspective
Emory University via Coursera
This course will review challenges for maternal and newborn health in the developing world, where a great many women and babies are suffering from complications during pregnancy, childbirth, and the days following birth. Through lectures, case studies and readings, course participants will learn about delivery challenges for maternal and newborn health services and how to utilize community-based strategies to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies.
Healthy Aging in 6 Steps
This course will teach you to make healthy choices and adjustments to your lifestyle and environment to help you live a healthier, happier and longer life.
Climate Adaptation for Human Health
Yale University via Coursera
The world's climate is changing, and among the most significant negative consequences is to human health. While climate change is a global health issue, its health impacts vary across geographies and populations. In this course, you will learn why taking action to plan for and adapt to climate change is necessary for protecting human health, as well as what kinds of actions are most appropriate for a particular location and population. You also will learn tools and strategies to effectively plan for and enact adaptation actions that build resilience to climate change's negative effects.
Caring for Vulnerable Children
University of Strathclyde via FutureLearn
Learn about risk and vulnerability among children, how children grow and develop, and how we can provide them with meaningful relationships and secure attachments. The knowledge you gain from this course may prompt you to explore or extend a career in child care or social work services.
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development
Children are the common basis for all dimensions of sustainable development. Beyond mere survival, children have a right to thrive, develop to their full potential, and live in a sustainable world. This course draws from research in neuroscience, psychology, economics, anthropology and program implementation and evaluation in order to discuss Early Childhood Development and explore its role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Education for All: Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion
University of Cape Town via FutureLearn
Millions of children around the world are excluded from access to education because of a disability – robbing them of their potential and diminishing our society. On this course you will learn about inclusive education, understanding what barriers there are to learning and how to challenge them.
The Right to Education: Breaking Down the Barriers
University of Glasgow via Future Learn
Does education for all, really mean all? What are the barriers to participating in education? How do you include "all" in the classroom? This course will answer these and other questions, and help you join the movement to get children the world over into education.
Teaching for Change: An African Philosophical Approach
Stellenbosch University via Future Learn
African philosophy of education has emerged as an educational challenge for many involved in contemporary education. In this course you'll learn more about this philosophy, why it's being examined, how it potentially responds to teaching and learning and what can be done to improve education in a just manner.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Challenging Poverty, Vulnerability, and Social Exclusion
Learn about the establishment of human rights and their linkages to many other global issues in sustainable development. Learners in this course discuss and debate the complex intersection of politics, gender, social norms, economics and power that have shaped – and will continue to shape – human rights worldwide.
International Women's Health and Human Rights
Stanford University via Coursera
This course focuses on women's health and human rights issues from infancy through old age. Topics include education, female genital mutilation, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, violence against women, women in war and refugee settings, women's economic empowerment, sex work and sex trafficking, aging and end of life.
Understanding Violence Against Women: Myths and Realities
In this course you will learn about the roots of violence against women, the principles of gender inequality at its centre and most importantly, how to challenge entrenched attitudes that impact women the world over.
Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons for Healthcare Workers
This course introduces participants from the healthcare sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV; health outcomes; seminal research; and clinical best practices for GBV prevention, support, and management.
Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration
European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
Drawing from expertise and examples at the global and regional level, this course provides participants with multiple perspectives and examples of practices in a field that is at the crossroads of gender, migration and human rights studies. Addressing the root causes of forced and economic migration and ensuring that the human rights of women and girls are protected throughout the migration process are essential steps towards a stronger recognition of their equal dignity.
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Water, Society and Sustainability
The global water scenario faces multiple challenges, including inequity in water access, entitlements across social and spatial lines, floods and droughts, and disputes over corporate control of limited water resources. It is important to explore the complex and cyclical processes through which water shapes, and, is in turn shaped by society. The course is located at the intersections between water, technology, science, and society. It combines theoretical approaches and empirical case studies to introduce and familiarize students with the water-society relationship: the contemporary challenges and prospective potentials.
Sustainable and Affordable Sanitation Solutions For Small Towns: Policy, Planning and Practice
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and NPTEL via Swayam
Sanitation is huge challenge in a country like India. Conventional, centralized solutions have important limitations. Decentralized solutions can be sustainable and affordable. However, these haven't received enough attention in policy and practice. The objectives of this course are to understand the sanitation challenges faced by India and to explore decentralized forms of sanitation planning.
Sustainable Development: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
RWTH Aachen University via edX
This course focuses on sustainable development and global changes and pays special attention to the challenges in developed and developing countries and their transition from unsustainable to sustainable practices. By the end of the course, you will have a solid understanding of the connection between water, energy, and food, and you will be able to manage resources in a sustainable and effective way — skills and knowledge that are key for sustainable future.
Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems: the Nexus between Water, Energy and Food
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona) via Coursera
In this course you will become familiar with the ideas of the water-energy-food nexus and transdisciplinary thinking. You will learn to see your community or country as a complex social-ecological system and to describe its water, energy and food metabolism in the form of a pattern, as well as to map the categories of social actors.
International Water Law
University of Geneva via Coursera
This course provides the necessary background to understand and examine the regulation applicable to transboundary freshwaters, especially rivers, lakes and aquifers. It presents the principles and legal standards that govern the use, sharing, management and protection of these resources.
Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems
University of Manchester via Coursera
This course explores what can be done to solve the complex problem that half a billion people worldwide do not have improved water supplies and two billion do not have improved sanitation. Develop the skills you need to address this major global challenge of the 21st century.
Introduction to Drinking Water Treatment
Learn about urban water services, focusing on conventional technologies for drinking water treatment.
Introduction to the Treatment of Urban Sewage
Learn about urban water services, focusing on basic sewage treatment technologies.
The Challenge of Global Water Security
Cardiff University via FutureLearn
An introduction to the challenges of water security on a local and global scale.
Irrigation Efficiency: more food with less water
KU Leuven University via edX
Learn to improve the efficiency of different irrigation system components over varying scales in order to extract less water from our resources while producing more food.
Water Resources Management and Policy
Develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. This course looks at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations.
Assure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
From Fossil Resources to Biomass: A Chemistry Perspective
The upcoming years are all about exploring and implementing the opportunities that biomass as a renewable energy source gives us. In this course, you will learn how to create a sustainable future by moving away from dependence on fossil resources to biomass resources for the production of food, chemicals, and energy-carriers. You will learn what biomass is, how to produce biomass renewable energy and biomass fuel, and how to make bio-based products.
Technologies For Clean And Renewable Energy Production
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and NPTEL via Swayam
With economic development, the demand for clean energy is increasing substantially while the availability of fossil fuels is decreasing around the world. This course deals with the production of energy from different fossil fuels through clean methods as well as renewable resources. It is intended to help learners keep up with the latest developments and technologies for cleaner energy production.
From Fossil Resources to Biomass: A Business and Economics Perspective
In this course, we explore how to create a sustainable future by moving away from dependence on fossil to biomass resources for the production of food, chemicals, and energy-carriers. The key is using microorganisms and catalysts to create bio-based products. Here, we will focus on the end of the supply chain: how to market and sell those products within a profitable business model.
Politics and Economics of International Energy
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris via Coursera
The course discusses global trends in energy consumption and production, various available scenarios for potential developments in the coming decades, the availability of oil reserves and the evolution of the oil industry. Learn about renewable energy sources, nuclear energy and EU energy policy.
Global Energy and Climate Policy
SOAS University of London via Coursera
This course offers an introduction to the theoretical and practical understanding of how energy and climate change policies are designed, shaped, advocated and implemented. As energy markets go truly global, domestic energy policies are becoming more and more entangled with wider issues of international governance.
Our Energy Future
University of California, San Diego via Coursera
This course is designed to introduce students to the issues of energy in the 21st century – including food and fuels – which are inseparably linked – and will discuss energy production and utilization from the biology, engineering, economics, climate science, and social science perspectives.
Wind Resources for Renewable Energies
Ecole Polytechnique via Coursera
Learn about basic meteorology, the specific dynamics of turbulent boundary layers and some standard techniques to estimate wind resources regardless of the type of turbine used or the level of efficiency achieved. Get hands-on experience applying what you have learned about wind resource assessment to real data sets.
Discover the power of solar energy and learn how to design a complete photovoltaic system.
Learn how to make the transition to 100% renewable energy from wind, solar and biomass for electricity, heat and fuels for a sustainable future.
Solar Energy Engineering MicroMasters
Master the technical knowledge required to start or further your career in solar energy.
Catalytic Conversions for Biobased Chemicals and Products
Design new (bio)catalytic conversion routes that allow you to use biobased feedstocks to their highest potential as building blocks for chemicals, materials and fuels.
Energy Principles and Renewable Energy
University of Queensland via edX
This course provides a foundation for understanding the basics of everything related to energy and the challenges associated with transitioning to a sustainable energy future.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Development
Unemployment. Inflation. Protectionism. Economic bubble. Debt. Fiscal deficit. These are not just terms in an economics textbook; these are real-life challenges that are dominating the media and that carry major societal implications. Explore the different macroeconomic "pathologies" at play in the modern day global economy, drawing from the lessons and experiences of the past and incorporating the significant biophysical pressures facing the planet today.
Global Trends for Business and Society
Learn to analyze rapidly changing global trends, their effects on consumer and labor markets, financial systems, and geopolitical relationships among countries all over the world. Through real-world case studies, both historical and contemporary, you'll examine how changes within one society affect others.
Global History of Capitalism
Princeton University via edX
By looking at capitalism through a global lens, this course investigates multiple types of explanations and impacts on local, national, regional and global levels. Students will examine a range of different topics deeply connected to the evolution of capitalism; including labor relations, migration, commodities, consumption, finance, war, imperialism, development, energy, and the environment.
Forced and Precarious Labor in the Global Economy: Slavery by Another Name?
University of the Witwatersrand via edX
Led by some of the world's leading authorities in the field, this course provides an introduction to the role of forced and precarious labor in the global economy. Drawing upon examples from across the world, the course specifically focuses on supply chain work, migrant work, and sex work.
Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy
Global Labour University via Iversity
Billions of workers around the world have no regular income or do not even earn a wage sufficient to live a decent life. This course offers a mix of video lectures and interviews, readings, online resources and exercises to gain both knowledge and practical skills to understand the landscape of wage setting.
Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part 1: The Role of the State
Tel Aviv University via Coursera
Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part 2: Maximize Social Wellbeing
If you really care about the big questions in the economies and societies of the 21st century, such as inequality of income or wealth, and its correlation with economic growth, this set of courses is meant for you. The knowledge you gain can truly change your outlook on our world.
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Becoming a Changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation
University of Cape Town via Coursera
Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting out, this course will take you on a journey of exploring the complex problems that surround us and how to start thinking about solutions.
Creativity, Innovation, and Change
Pennsylvania State University via Coursera
Creativity, innovation, and change require a unique mindset and collection of mental tools. In this course you will learn about four key variables that define and describe creative diversity, including your creative style and your creative level.
Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia
Lund University via Coursera
How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course explores greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation.
How Green is that Product? An Introduction to Life Cycle Environmental Assessment
Northwestern University via Coursera
Paper or plastic? Local or imported food? Which is better for the environment? To answer these questions, one must take a holistic systems view using a quantitative approach known as life cycle assessment. The course provides an introduction to LCA methods and applications, including a hands-on modeling project.
The Next Generation of Infrastructure
Explore the challenges and complexity of both global and local infrastructure (IT/Telecom, Energy, Water and Transportation) and how to make the best decisions to improve it.
Learn the basics of sustainable processing for biobased products to further understand their impact on global sustainability.
Innovation and Design for Global Grand Challenges
Duke University via Coursera
This course will inspire you to rethink assumptions to address global challenges in conservation and development, and introduce you to new models and approaches that harness technological, behavioral, and financial innovation. Learn the tools, models, and approaches to address global grand challenges in conservation and development and to create and execute new solutions.
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Learn about the establishment of human rights and their linkages to many other global issues in sustainable development. The course joins legal frameworks and societal contexts to explore the barriers that prevent rights from becoming a reality. Students discuss and debate the complex intersection of politics, gender, social norms, economics and power that have shaped – and will continue to shape – human rights worldwide.
Wellesley College via edX
This sociology course introduces core concepts of class, gender, and racial inequality, and an approach to studying complex forms of inequality called intersectionality. Featuring interviews with top scholars and discussion of the full-length award winning documentary, China Blue, which follows the life of a young seventeen-year-old worker from Sichuan province, to a Chinese jeans factory, this course will transform your perspective on yourself and others.
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
Trinity College via edX
By empowering individuals and communities to transform and balance natural resources, economic prosperity, and healthy populations, we can strengthen sustainability. In this course, you'll explore sustainability's social, ecological, and economic intersections – the "triple bottom line." You'll investigate a spectrum of global, national, regional, and personal study cases. Finally, a fundamental course goal will be to understand indicators of economic prosperity and happiness that relate to environmental sustainability.
This course explores what Sustainable cities are about. It examines how urban sustainability can be delivered: how cities function as systems of systems; how we can increase urban productivity and reduce urban poverty and inequality, enable urban inclusion and safety; provide universal basic services, housing and infrastructure; protect the urban environment, reduce risk and vulnerability.
Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
This mini-series is a companion piece to the SDG Academy's full-length Sustainable Cities course and also serves as a brief introduction to the topic of urban sustainable development and the SDGs.
Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities
Learn concepts at the core of contemporary research and debate on global sustainability. This course will expand and update your 'conceptual toolbox' in matters of global sustainability.
Cities Are Back in Town: Urban Sociology for a Globalizing Urban World
Urbanization is reaching a new peak in the contemporary world with the rise of megacities. Researchers try to make sense of these large urban areas using a variety of concepts. The class will review debates and present social science models of cities to analyse and compare contemporary developments.
Designing Cities
Each module in Designing Cities focuses on a different aspect of city design including: How Today's City Evolved; The Ideas That Shape Cities; Tools for Designing Cities; Making Cities Sustainable; Cities in the Information Age; Preserving Older Cities; Designing New Cities, Districts and Neighborhoods; The Challenges of Informal Cities and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods; and Visionary Cities.
Sustainable Urban Development: Discover Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University via edX
Learn why cities are key in resolving global urbanization and sustainability challenges and how you can engineer tomorrow's cities today.
Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges
How do you plan future cities? Explore alternative theories and innovative solutions for urban challenges in the global south.
Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
Learn how citizen's co-creation is key in making cities worldwide more sustainable.
Sustainable Tourism: Society & Environmental Aspects
Gain the skills and knowledge to drive sustainability in the largest industry worldwide: tourism! Understand the scope next to social and environmental implications of growth in this exciting field of study.
Sustainability through Soccer: Systems-Thinking in Action
University of Virginia via Coursera
This course takes learners on a journey through a progression of systems-thinking and sustainability concepts using the beautiful game of soccer (football) as an analogy.
Delft University via edX
Learn about today's urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the Global South. Through a combination of short theoretical lessons, presentation of case studies, testimonies from practitioners and practical assignments you will learn how to develop a critical perspective about your own urban environment and how to translate this knowledge into analytical tools and innovative urban solutions.
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Natural Resources for Sustainable Development
This course outlines the various complex and interrelated aspects of natural resource governance, including: understanding the governance and industry fundamentals; developing and implementing robust and transparent legal frameworks; designing fiscal regimes to capture a fair share of the revenues; managing environmental risks; engaging with communities; leveraging investments for infrastructure and business linkages; and managing revenues for economic diversification and development, among others.
Responsible Innovation – exploring the interface of ethics, society and technological innovations.
Circular Economy: An introduction
Learn how to contribute to a sustainable economic system by implementing novel business and design approaches.
Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy
Learn how to apply the principles of the circular economy to sustainable packaging systems.
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials
Learn about waste management and its key role in saving critical raw materials.
Engineering Design for a Circular Economy
Discover and develop sustainable design and engineering methods to improve the reuse, repair, remanufacturing, and recycling of products for a circular economy.
Global Resource Politics: the Past, Present and Future of Oil, Gas and Shale
Hanyang University via FutureLearn
The goal of this free online course is to examine the numerous critical energy challenges we are facing, and the complex interaction between the economics and politics of global energy markets. You will acquire an understanding of energy security and energy policy in today's highly politicised, volatile energy markets.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Planning for Climate Change in African Cities
Erasmus University Rotterdam via Coursera
Climate change poses a threat to economic growth and long-term prosperity around the world. And Africa is not an exception. This course provides the foundation for understanding African cities' exposure and sensitivity to climate change, and how to manage these impacts in the face of growing uncertainty. It does so by introducing the basic concepts of urban resilience and adaptation, by using illustrative case studies in different African cities. Finally, the course broadens the discussion on planning for climate change by encouraging learners to apply their knowledge and practice their decision-making skills in a simulated exercise.
Climate Change Science and Negotiations
Scientists have pointed out that a rise in mean surface temperature of 2º Celsius above pre-industrial levels will put the Earth in dangerous, uncharted territory. Yet we currently are on a path toward an increase of 4º or more this century. Fortunately, solutions exist to deeply decarbonize the global energy systems, and put the world on a 2°C pathway. During this course, you will learn about these solutions and how they can be applied in different national contexts, based on the results from the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), a global initiative to show how countries can transition to a low carbon economy by 2050, and how the world can stay within the 2°C limit.
Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet
Learn the science behind reducing global greenhouse gas emission, what businesses and government can do to decarbonize the economy, the role of agriculture in reducing emissions, how satellites are being used to identify high-emissions areas, and the actions communities and individuals can take to make climate action a reality.
Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries
This course challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This course covers topics such as facilitation process techniques, energy modeling, scenario building, innovation and policy making. You will have the opportunity to respond to these topics with ideas and reflection from your own context. Whether you are a climate change practitioner, work in development or are simply curious about how climate mitigation is understood, this course will give you insights into the complexity of how countries from the South pursue development goals while addressing climate mitigation.
Explore how climate change, water availability, and engineering innovation are key challenges for our planet.
Act on Climate: Steps to Individual, Community, and Political Action
University of Michigan via Coursera
Are you concerned about climate change? Would you like to learn how to address and respond to this challenge? If so, this course is for you.
Building with Nature
Learn how to use ecological and engineering design principles to develop more effective and sustainable hydraulic infrastructure.
Global Warming Science teaches you about the risks and uncertainties of future climate change by examining the science behind the earth's climate. You will be able to answer such questions as, "What is the Greenhouse Effect?" and "How and why has earth's climate changed through geologic history?"
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development
One Planet-One Ocean
This ten-week course presents the challenges and opportunities facing oceans today. The course brings in some of the world's leading experts on ocean science to present the issues and potential solutions grounded in rigorous scientific research.
Oceanography: a key to better understand our world
University of Barcelona and Fundaciò Navagaciò Oceànica Barcelona via Coursera
In this course the student will learn about the foundations of the science of oceanography. You'll learn about the classification and formation of the ocean floor, how current sea satellite analysis systems work, the chemistry of the oceans and the processes that led to its formation.
Exploring Our Oceans
University of Southampton via FutureLearn
Discover how you can play a part in the safe-keeping of the future of our oceansWhat lies in the half of our world covered by water more than two miles deep? How are our everyday lives connected to the ocean depths, and what challenges and opportunities does this previously hidden realm hold for our future? By taking this course, you will see how the deep ocean is no longer out of reach, and join a global debate about the future of our "blue planet".
Tropical Coastal Ecosystems
Develop the skills and knowledge needed to help preserve tropical coastal ecosystems. This course will introduce you to the incredible plants and animals that create these unique ecosystems. You will go on to explore the challenges these ecosystems are facing such as overfishing, coastal pollution, ocean warming and acidification, then learn about some techniques being used to tackle these problems.
Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
From the Ground Up: Managing and Preserving our Terrestrial Ecosystems
Learn about the impacts of deforestation, climate change and more, with a particular focus on the human activities that affect these ecosystems. In studying the interplay of local communities dependent on these natural resources, you will emerge with a deep understanding of how to ensure the long-term health of our global ecosystems.
Ecosystem services are a way of thinking about – and evaluating – the goods and services provided by nature that contribute to the well-being of humans. This course covers scientific (technical), economic, and socio-political dimensions of the concept through a mix of theory, case-studies, interviews with specialists and a serious-game.
Urban Water-Innovations for Environmental Sustainability
The University of British Columbia via edX
In this interdisciplinary course you will learn about the water-related dimensions of environmentally sustainable urbanism. The course features Vancouver, one of the world's leading cities for green design.
Forests and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
This interdisciplinary course explores the complex interactions between poverty, rural livelihoods, and forest resources in developing countries. This course will engage you in developing a deeper understanding of the fundamental importance of forest resources in the lives and livelihoods of people in developing countries.
Global Environmental Management
Technical University of Denmark via Coursera
Learn about the best environmental technologies for a sustainable development and how they are managed in various settings around the world. This course gives you an opportunity to learn about global trends that influence our environment and the living conditions and how different management systems and approaches that are used around the world to manage the environment.
SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels
Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
This course provides an in-depth introduction to the multiple roles that natural resources and the environment play in the onset, escalation, and resolution of, and recovery from, violent conflicts. Many of the considerations and approaches in this course are also relevant to understanding and addressing social conflicts around natural resources and the environment.
Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home
Pope Francis – spiritual leader to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics – issued an encyclical called Laudato Si': On Care of our Common Home. This encyclical is addressed not only to Catholics, but to all people of the world. In blunt terms, it draws attention to the nature of the grave ecological crisis that humanity has created, and it issues a moral clarion call for urgent action to protect the earth and its inhabitants from ruin. This short course provides an overview of the main themes and messages of Laudato Si'.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Foundations of Development Policy
In this course, we will study the different facets of human development in topics such as education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms, public policy, and institutions. At the same time, you will discover modern empirical methods in economics. Throughout the course, we will expose you to all facets of empirical projects, from experimental design and ethical issues, to data collection and data analysis.
The Changing Global Order
Leiden University via Coursera
How are international power relations changing and how can global peace and stability be maintained? This course familiarizes you with some main theories of international relations, shows how the global order is gradually changing and discusses how selected international and regional organizations contribute to the maintenance of global peace and security. You learn what research findings tell us in terms of the capacity of international organizations and actors to help prevent or stop violent conflict, what tools are used to negotiate agreements and how foundations for sustainable peace are best created.
Global Sociology
In this introductory sociology course, we will explore the concerns of an interconnected global world through classic sociological concepts. Through short lectures, interviews with prominent sociologists and everyday people around the world, you will learn to see your role in the scope of global history.
Courses cross-cutting the SDGs
Introduction to Sustainability
This course introduces the academic approach of sustainability and explores how today's human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation, and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history.
The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
In 2015, the UN launched the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adopted by 193 member states, the goals represent an important international step in setting humanity on a trajectory towards sustainable development. Within this course, you will get a historical overview of how sustainability has been understood, as well as a thorough introduction to the SDGs – what they are, how progress can be measured, and how the SDGs are relevant for the management of the global systems supporting humanity.
SDG: Moving Towards Sustainable Work
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid via edX
The United Nations' Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda gives us the opportunity to change and improve the lives of millions of people. Today, companies are considered key players to achieve development, essential partners. In this course, we'll immerse you in the UN's SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) to help make these initiatives a reality at companies, focusing on SDG 1 (End Poverty), SDG 3 (Health and wellness), SDG 5 (Gender equality), SDG 8 (Decent work and Economic growth), and SDG 10 (Reduce inequalities).
Sustainability, Resilience, and Society
University of Washington via edX
In this course, we'll explore: what sustainability is and how we can actively participate in it; how our 'ecological footprint' matters among those of billions of humans on Earth; and how civic and governmental attitudes will impact sustainability and resilience in the future. Our emphasis will be on translating theory to individual impact and comprehension.
The Age of Sustainable Development
This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development, drawing on the most recent developments in the social, policy, and physical sciences. The course offers a broad overview of the key challenges and potential solutions to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century.
Globalization: Past and Future
In this free, four-part mini-course, Professor Jeffrey Sachs takes students on a historical and anthropological tour of six distinct waves of globalization and outlines the key factors that drove innovation, technology dispersal and development during these epochs. The course tells the story of a global humanity and asks the question: What lessons can we pull from history to help understand the tumultuous changes underway today?
Transforming the World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
This mini-series presents and explains the 17 newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century with Ban Ki-moon
Yonsei University via Coursera
This course is for people who want to learn about the latest development agenda the international community agreed to achieve by 2030. Structured around the five pillars of Agenda 2030 – people, prosperity, planet, peace and justice, and partnership, students will learn that these pillars are interconnected and need to be integrated in practical policy-making and operational activities for development, in both developed and developing country settings.
Political Economy of Institutions and Development
University of Leiden via Coursera
What makes some countries wealthier than others? Do we face cultural diversity or fragmentation? Does the type of governance affect economic development and social change or is it the other way around? These issues and many more will be examined in this course along with a wide library of sources and a biting criticism.
This course introduces the origin and key concepts of sustainability and how to apply those to sustainable development practice. Learn about planetary boundaries, urbanisation and growing inequality, to show how integral sustainable development is to our everyday existence.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals: an Interdisciplinary Academic Introduction
An interdisciplinary introduction to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which looks at all SDGs, their progress and challenges.
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Attorney Christine Sullivan Named Senior Partner
by Colleen LaFrancois | Dec 30, 2020 | Christine Sullivan, Education, Firm News
Berchem Moses PC is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2021, Christine Sullivan has been elected as Senior Partner. "It is with great pride that we announce the promotion of Christine Sullivan to Senior Partner at Berchem Moses PC," said Marsha Belman Moses, Named Senior Partner. "Christine is an amazing lawyer, both exceedingly competent and especially compassionate, who embodies the...
Attorney John Khalil to serve as President of the Connecticut School Attorneys Council
by Colleen LaFrancois | Dec 7, 2020 | Education, Firm News
Congratulations to Attorney John Y. Khalil on being named as President of the Connecticut School Attorneys Council for 2021. The Connecticut School Attorneys Council is a member group of education attorneys representing public school districts across the state. The Council works in collaboration with the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the National School Boards...
Breakthrough Reached On Trans Athletes
by Colleen LaFrancois | Sep 24, 2020 | Education
By Emily Hayes Published in the New Haven Independent on September 23, 2020 New Haven Public Schools and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights have come to a tentative agreement that would allow transgender athletes to continue to play on teams of their choice — without the city losing millions of federal dollars. On Tuesday afternoon, New Haven Public Schools received an...
Federal funding threatened over transgender athlete policy
by Colleen LaFrancois | Sep 18, 2020 | Education, Firm News
Attorney Michelle Laubin is quoted in a September 18, 2020 article by Luke Broadwater and Erica L. Green of The New York Times, regarding federal funding being threatened over transgender athlete policy. Read more at: https://nyti.ms/3c9i5Xa
Attorney Michelle Laubin to present CABE seminar on Special Education Issues
The Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) will present a series of four virtual workshops covering legal issues facing educators. Seminars will be held throughout the fall of 2020. On Tuesday, October 27, Attorney Michelle Laubin will discuss Special Education issues. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3hpJzIW.
DOL Updates FFCRA Guidance (Again) as Schools Reopen
by Paula N. Anthony, Esq. | Aug 31, 2020 | Education, Labor and Employment
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Labor updated its guidance on emergency leave benefits under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to address leave eligibility questions related to childcare issues presented as schools prepare to welcome students back (in some fashion). https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-questions As the start of the school year fast...
How to follow BIP protocols for restraint, seclusion during a pandemic
by Colleen LaFrancois | Aug 26, 2020 | Education
Reprinted with permission from: Special Ed Connection®. © 2020 LRP Publications, 360 Hiatt Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418. All rights reserved. Students with behavioral issues may become agitated more easily upon the return to classrooms because of all the changes to their routine and school building. They may more quickly get to the point of needing to be restrained for their safety...
District Court Ruling Extends Age of Eligibility for Special Education to Twenty-Two
by John Y. Khalil, Esq. | Jul 9, 2020 | Education
On June 10, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut issued a ruling regarding the age limitation for special education and related services which has significant implications for local and regional boards of education. Connecticut General Statutes Section 10-76d(b), and Regulation 10-76d-1(a)(4) currently provides that a school district's obligation to provide a free...
What schools need to know about the final Title IX regulations
by Colleen LaFrancois | Jul 8, 2020 | Education
The U.S. Department of Education released its final regulations on sexual harassment under Title IX which includes many sweeping changes to the existing definitions and standards and imposes significantly greater obligations on local school districts, effective August 14, 2020. On July 8, 2020, Floyd J. Dugas, Chair of the firm's Labor & Employment practice, and Carolyn Mazanec Dugas, member...
U.S. Department of Education Releases New Title IX Regulations Requiring Sweeping Changes to How Schools Must Investigate and Respond to Sexual Harassment
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The United States Department of Education released long awaited Title IX Regulations (Regulations) on May 6, 2020. The Regulations impose legal obligations on state and local educational agencies and institutions that receive federal financial assistance. The Regulations which take effect on August 14, 2020 require significant changes to how school districts, colleges and universities...

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Yellowhammer set to honor Bill Poole with 2021 Power of Service Award
Yellowhammer Multimedia on Monday announced it will present this year's Power of Service Award to State Rep. Bill Poole (R-Tuscaloosa). Yellowhammer will present the award at its annual Power of Service event set to take place on May 19 in Montgomery.
Yellowhammer is honoring Poole in recognition of his outstanding service to the state of Alabama. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Education Committee, he is in charge of the $7.7 billion education budget for his chamber.
"We are excited to honor Bill Poole for his exemplary work to make Alabama the best possible place to live, work and raise a family," said Sean Ross, editor-in-chief of Yellowhammer News. "His stalwart leadership as chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee continues to pay dividends for generations to come, as well as the future of our state. Whether it be pre-k, k-12, higher education or workforce training initiatives, his impact on education in Alabama is only matched by his own forward-thinking efforts to advance the state's innovation and tech ecosystem. Undoubtedly, Bill Poole is at the forefront of building an equitable, 21st century economy in which all Alabamians can thrive. Our state is immeasurably better because of his continued leadership and service."
In addition to an active law practice and his service in the Alabama House of Representatives, Poole currently chairs the Alabama Innovation Commission, a statewide commission on entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. He is also a member of the State Service Commission, a governor-appointed board leading the Yellowhammer State's philanthropic and service movement.
Poole was first elected to the House in 2010. He is involved in numerous community organizations, including the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama School of Law.
This is the sixth year that Yellowhammer has presented the Power of Service Award. Past recipients include Johnny Johns, Sen. Del Marsh, Jimmy Rane, Sen. Jabo Waggoner, Congressman Gary Palmer, Mark Crosswhite, Swaid Swaid, Speaker Mac McCutcheon and Horace Horn.


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The American Astronaut
Categories: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action, Festivals, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis. Written, directed and starring Cory McAbee (of the legendary cult band The Billy Nayer Show), THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT uses flinty black-and-white photography, rugged lo-fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier. We follow Curtis on his Homeric journey to provide the all-female planet of Venus with a suitable male, while pursued by an enigmatic killer, Professor Hess. The film features music by The Billy Nayer Show and some of the most original rock n' roll scenes ever committed to film.
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Marks & Spencer has posted a £201.2 million pre-tax loss in the year to 27 March. This compares to a £67.2 million profit in the previous… View Article
Marks & Spencer swings to loss after Covid-19 hit clothing and home sales
26 May, 2021 | by Angela Beevers
Marks & Spencer has posted a £201.2 million pre-tax loss in the year to 27 March.
This compares to a £67.2 million profit in the previous year.
While like-for-like sales in M&S's food category increased by 1.3% in the period, clothing and home like-for-likes fell by 31.5%. The retailer attributed the clothing and homewares decline to the impact of lockdowns on stores, a substantial change in its product mix, and difficulties in clearing stock.
Despite the disruption caused by Covid-19, M&S said it put in a resilient performance and had also accelerated its transformation programme.
Steve Rowe, M&S chief executive, said: "By going further and faster in our transformation through the Never the Same Again programme, we moved beyond fixing the basics to forge a reshaped M&S. With the right team in place to accelerate change in the trading businesses and build a trajectory for future growth, we now have a clear line of sight on the path to make M&S special again. The transformation has moved to the next phase."
Giving an update on more recent trading, M&S said sales in the first six weeks of the new financial year and since stores reopened after lockdown have been ahead of the comparable period two years ago with clothing and home sales increasing. However, international sales continue to be impacted by ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, particularly in India.
M&S said its tie-up with Ocado delivered 43.7% revenue growth over the 52 weeks ended 28 February 2021 and contributed a share of net income of £78.4 million.
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Celebrating Bastille Day 2019
Bastille Day!
Bastille Day 2018 on 60th Street
Commemorating the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, and the birth of the modern French nation ~ Bastille Day has become a major celebration here in New York. let's begin our 2019 Bastille Day Celebration at French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)!
Bastille Day 2018
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) hosts the largest public celebration of France's national holiday, closing 60th Street from Fifth Avenue Lexington Avenue, thousands of visitors come for the French cuisine, mystique, dance and joie de vivre of France from Noon to 5:00pm.
The FIAF Event includes more than sixty purveyors of French food, fashion, culture and travel, along with live music and performances throughout the day as follows:
Main Stage, 60th Street & Park Avenue
12:45pm — French Heart Jazz Band with Chloé Perrier
1:15pm — The Love Show
2pm — The Blue Dahlia
2:45pm — Les P'tites Ouvreuses
3:30pm — Rodeo Joe
4:15pm — Zouk Dance Lesson with Franck Muhel
FIAF Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
3pm — Gérard Chambre
Along 60th Street
12:50–4:20pm — French Mime with Catherine Gasta
12:50–4:20pm — French Artist COCOVAN
12:55–5pm — Citroën Car Show (Fifth Avenue at 60th Street)
2:55pm — Hungry March Band
Check out the Kids' Corner on 60th Street between Madison and Park Avenues ~
1–2pm — Animal Geometry with Lucie Brunellière
2–3pm — Full Speed Ahead with Cruschiform
3–4pm — Garden Pop-Up with Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud
FIAF also has a number of related events and activities including a French film screening at 5:30pm at FIAF Florence Gould Hall on East 59th Street.
Don't miss the Champagne, Cocktail, and Jazz Party in the FIAF Skyroom. Champagnes from Laurent-Perrier, Besserat de Bellefon, Delamotte, Michel Gonet, and Pol Roger and cocktails from Giffard will be served along with treats from Jacques Torres Chocolate, Ladurée, and Maman Bakery. the Avalon Jazz Bank will perform. Champagne, Cocktail, and Jazz Party will take place from 1:30 ~ 3pm and from 3:30 to 5pm.
Win dream vacations, gourmet gift baskets, dinners at exclusive NYC French restaurants, and other fabulous prizes. Grand Prize Drawing for a luxury escape to Cannes for two including airfare! You do not need to be present to win.
Summer in Provence Tasting will take place in FIAF Tinker Auditorium from Noon to 4:30pm. Discover the flavors of Provence at a fun and festive tasting featuring wines from Miraval, Château d'Esclans, Château de la Clapière, cocktails from Ricard, beers from Kronenbourg, cheese from Président, and charcuterie from Trois Petits Cochons.
The French Garden: A Showcase of Premium French Brands will return for a second year. It will feature shops with exclusive fashions and accessories from French boutiques, including Atelier Paulin, French Wink, Ladurée, Saint James, and many more. Open from Noon to 5:00pm on 60th Street from Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue.
Celebrating its 100th anniversary ~ Greater New York Citroen & Velosolex Club
Bastille Day 2018 on 59th Street ~ Greater New York Citroen and Velosolex Club
Follow the Greater New York Citroen & Velosolex Club on its 20th Annual Bastille Day Rendezvous as they celebrate the 100th anniversary of Citroen automobiles. Both four wheel and two wheel vehicles include Citroen, Velosolex, Peugeot, Renault, Panhards, Simcas, Buggati ~ and all vehicles French.
Bastille Day Event 2018 ~ Greater New York Citroen and Velosolex Club
The event, held on July 14th, will begin at 9am at Grant's Tomb, 122nd Street and Riverside Drive South, rally around Manhattan, making stops at French-related landmarks including Washington Square Park, Maison Kayser patisserie and more ~ and end at 60th Street at Fifth Avenue, at Central Park South around 1:30pm, where an already celebratory crowd from the FIFA event will be partying right across the street.
Bastille Day on 59th/60th Streets, 2018~ Greater New York Citroen and Velosolex Club
This year, the Greater New York Citroën & Velosolex Club's Annual Bastille Day Rally Around New York City will be part of Citroën's global heritage documentary online series in celebration of Citroën's 100 Anniversary. A film crew directed by Basile Rose will join event organizer, Howie Seligman on the rendezvous.
Bastille Day Concert in Van Cortlandt Park! In honor of Bastille Day, Bronx Arts Ensemble's string quartet presents a program of music by all Francophone composers. Centering around Ravel's String Quartet in F Major, the program will also feature the guitar music of Haitian composer Frantz Casséus and the string music of Germaine Tailleferre, member of the infamous French composers' collective Les Six.
This is a Free event at 2pm on Sunday, July 14th at Rockwood Circle in Van Cortlandt Park South in the Bronx.
Myriam Phiro: Edith Piaf Tribute at Joe's Pub! After a sold out performance at Birdland last May, Myriam Phiro will be guiding Joe's Pub's audience through the decadent world of Edith Piaf using her timeless songs to retell the life of the icon who is her greatest inspiration in becoming a performer herself in celebration of Bastille Day. Accompanied by her all-star trio, the chanteuse will offer a solo-rendition of her own 'Piaf at 100' cabaret show, recreating the brothels, circuses, and nightclubs that created the great Piaf we all know. A show not-to-be-missed!
Myriam Phiro
Celebrate with an Independence Day Brunch on a yacht! The Infinity (part of Hornblower Cruises) will leave from Pier 40 at 11am.
Bastille Day Brunch at The Blue Note with Fleur Seule! Join Fleur Seule at one of the world's top jazz venues for Bastille Day Brunch! The event will take you back to Paris in the 1940s with classic tunes and sips. Sets at 11:30am and 1:30pm Brunch is served from 10:30am-3:00pm.
Image via Fleur Seule on Facebook
Bouley Bastille Day Gypsy Jazz Brunch at Bouley Test Kitchen! Celebrate La Fête Nationale with jazz manouche – live gypsy jazz – and savoring Chef David Bouley's French nouvelle brunch cuisine. Delight in signature passed canapes, charcuterie, French cheese by Master French Craftsman Rodolphe Le Meunier, Bouley baked breads and desserts by Chef Etienne Le Bastard. Experience live cooking demonstrations and a special French wine program for la fête nationale. Liberté, égalité, fraternité!
Bar Taback and the Pétanque Tournament! Join over 70 teams for a tournament of the quirky French sport Pétanque. With music in the background and food and beverage by Bar Tabac, the sandy courts offer an excellent way to greet summer.
Image via Bar Taback
Screening of The Triplets of Belleville with Live Score Prospect Park Bandshell Thursday, July 14 | 8pm | Free See The Triplets of Belleville with a live orchestral accompaniment of Benoit Charest's score and vocals by chanteuse/songwriter Jessica Fichot. Presented by BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.
French Restaurant Week from July 8th to July 21st, 2019
Since its creation in 2011, French Restaurant Week® has been hosted by over 240 participating restaurants. In partnership with OpenTable®, this special week offers customers the ability to enjoy special prix-fixe menu options during dinner, and in some cases, lunch. In previous years, wines were highlighted within the restaurants and online promotions as exclusive sponsors. This year French Restaurant Week will return on July 2019 in New York and Chicago. Restaurants across both cities will be offering special promotional prices of $17.89 (bar option), $25 (lunch option), $42 (dinner option) and $178.90 (dinner option for 2) in honor of the French Revolution.
And then there is the Macaroon.
These are just a few of the festivities we found for Bastille Day 2019. More to come!
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