Creating the Next Conservation Movement—Or Do We Even Need One?

In the second of this four-part series, the New York Academy of Sciences and the The Nature Conservancy explore the relationship between conservation and our increasingly urban existence. "Conservation" and "environmentalism" are in danger of becoming our grandfathers’ words. The environment ranks close to the bottom when Americans are polled about their top concerns, and the percentage of those who identify themselves as conservationists has slipped substantially in the last five years. How can we build a new U.S. conservation and environmental movement to meet the challenges of the new century ... or is the desire to mainstream environmentalism just a symptom of the problem? Presented by Hot Topics in Green Science and Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy. For more information, click here or call 212.298.8600.