FutureFEST: Climate Reimagined is NJEJA’s first annual youth climate justice convening, taking place on Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM at Kean University. This FREE event is geared toward high school and college students.

This intergenerational gathering is led by Gen Z climate activists from across New Jersey and designed to inspire, activate, and connect youth and allies in the fight for climate and environmental justice. Participants will engage in:

✷ Youth-led panels, workshops, and trainings

✷ Organizing skill-shares

✷ Climate-focused art, fashion, and culture

✷ Hands-on activities on composting, textile justice, clean beauty, and more

Join us for the 5th annual BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift, a full-day public event launching NYC Climate Week at Columbia University. This year’s summit convenes frontline communities, organizers, researchers, funders, and public servants to build collective power and advance transformative climate justice.

"Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act...Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists adopt the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand. We may not, in fact, know them afterwards either, but they matter all the same..." —Rebecca Solnit

On behalf of Courage of Care and The Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN), we warmly invite you to our day-long resourcing retreat on Sunday, September 21 from 10a-4pm.

The event will be hosted at a community house and event space in Ridgewood, NY (on the border of Brooklyn and Queens), that offers us space to gather, reflect, and build connections.

Together, we will engage practices that help us:

resource and strengthen our resilience and felt sense of relationality or interconnection;

address climate anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout;

find ways of slowing down and sensing without succumbing to toxic urgency;

envision and embrace complexity and multiple futures; and

embody a stance of courage and risk to carry forward with grounded, wise hope.

This retreat is scheduled right at the start of Climate Week 2025 in NYC and is open to any and all engaged in climate and environmental justice work. No prior experience necessary; if you feel called to a day of reflection, practice, and community, please join us!

The event includes a vegetarian lunch at our community house and garden.

UPROSE's Climate Justice Lives Here initiative grew out of NYC Climate Week becoming Manhattan-centric and marginalizing frontline communities.

Climate Justice Lives Here represents our commitment to environmental justice in our frontline communities. This week-long series of events brings together activists, community members, and allies to address the climate crisis through the lens of social justice.

Join us in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York for a transformative week of climate justice activism, community-led workshops, and environmental justice initiatives.

​Grasping at the Roots - a Climate Justice Alliance documentary by filmmakers Leah Derray and Keenan Rhodes - offers an intimate look into the lives of Black Environmental Justice communities as they confront economic hardships, community disruptions, and the realities of climate change. This 35-minute film highlights the resilience and solutions being crafted by those living on the frontlines, advocating for their rights and environment.

​Immediately following the screening, join us for light snacks and a powerful discussion on how to maintain environmental justice efforts during political turmoil.

​It will be an evening of reflection, learning, and action. This event is not just about viewing a documentary; it’s a call to support environmental justice and amplify voices making a difference amid the current political climate.

​This event is Co-Sponsored by the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School.

​The Tishman Center is a collaborative community of practice that leverages research, policy, and design in accordance with the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing. We bring together research and action to tackle the root causes of climate and environmental injustice and commit to change in higher education practices within and beyond The New School.

​Art created by Walter Cruz.

At a time when environmental policy, regulations, research, and budgets face unprecedented and systemic attacks, new climate coalitions are emerging,  from local neighborhoods to the global stage. These coalitions, powered by the vision and voices of frontline communities, are uniting with policymakers, philanthropy, journalists, and academia to chart a path toward a thriving economy and healthy futures for all.

This Climate Week 2025 keynote will bring together multisector leaders who are building and sustaining these transformative alliances. Moderated by Dr. Ana Isabel Baptista, Director of the Tishman Environment & Design Center, this conversation features U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (FL-14), leading the Thriving Economy Project with SEEC Institute and former Chair of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

 More multi-sectoral speakers will be announced soon. 

This event is presented by Tishman Environment and Design Center in collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)  founded in 1976 and producer of Mother Jones and the public radio show and podcast Reveal, and the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition Institute (SEEC Institute), a nonprofit established in 2023, to increase understanding, build support, and drive action on critical climate and environmental issues.

This event is part of the Tishman Center’s year-long celebration honoring two decades of the evolution and impact of the Center’s work, alongside communities. 

Special thanks to the Rachel Carson Council and the Solar Energy Industry Association for their fiscal support of this event. 

This event is free and open to the public. We welcome donations to help make it possible. Your support helps the Tishman Center bring in community leaders to participate in Climate Week NYC and experience this event in person.

​The advancement and usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has skyrocketed, along with the demand for land, energy, and water to power data centers. If you use AI, are curious about how its growth is affecting the planet, or want to reduce it’s harm then this is the panel for you. Join us to learn how these demands are impacting resources and possible avenues for safeguarding overburdened environmental justice communities.  

​This 90 minute panel will immediately be followed by a non-alcoholic social hour featuring artwork from Creative Wildfire, where attendees will have an opportunity to socialize with artists, panelists, and others in attendance.

​We kindly ask that all adult participants wear masks while attending our event, unless eating or drinking. If you don’t have a KN95 or N95 mask, we will have extras available on site. Thank you for doing your part to help keep our community safe.

This Climate Week, the Tishman Environment and Design Center invites you to a webinar where we will share key findings from a first-of-its-kind policy review and database designed to support the integration of cumulative impacts into state environmental permitting frameworks.

Spurred by the leadership of Environmental Justice advocates, states are increasingly engaging in policymaking to respond to the cumulative environmental and social burdens faced by EJ communities. We invite you to join us as we take a critical look at the growing wave of state policies to address cumulative impacts (CI) in environmental permitting.

Join us as we:

Share trends and patterns in proposed and passed state CI permitting policies

Highlight common frameworks, innovative policy features, as well as potential loopholes and pitfalls, in policy design

Launch and publicize our new database on state-level cumulative impacts policies

Build momentum for academic collaborators to align with frontline needs in CI work

This event is designed for scholars, analysts, technical professionals, and environmental justice advocates committed to developing strong and equitable cumulative impacts policies.

We hope you’ll join us for the conversation. The event is open to all but will require advance registration here.

Upon registration, a confirmation email containing the Zoom link will be sent to you.

Presented by Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School

During this in-person event, women leaders in all their diversity will come together to share comprehensive and intersectional approaches and strategies to accelerate community-led climate solutions, advance a Just Transition, phase out fossil fuels, protect democracy, and uplift the climate justice movement. Critical topics include forest protection and reforestation, gender-responsive climate policies, fossil fuel resistance, food sovereignty, Indigenous and human rights; Rights of Nature; and strategic campaigns and policies for COP30 and beyond. There will also be a special presentation about WECAN’s ongoing campaigns and programs. Speakers to be announced soon!

As global leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), we are calling on governments to take decisive action for global democracy and climate action. As authoritarianism grows worldwide, climate impacts are intensifying, with communities already facing devastating consequences. The window to prevent even worse and irreversible harm is rapidly closing, and government leaders must act now and heed the demands of global climate movements. In anticipation of COP30 in Belem, it is imperative to support the leadership of women climate leaders in all their diversity who are leading the way for a just and healthy future!

REGISTRATION

Registration is required. Registration does not confirm a seat at the event, the events are first come, first serve. Doors open at 3:45 PM. The program will start promptly at 4:00 PM. Please arrive early due to heavy traffic in this part of the city.

This event is free and open to the public. Importantly, due to security in this part of the city because of the UN General Assembly, registration is required. Please remember to have your tickets ready to show security, either on your phone or print them out and bring them with you. You also need a government issued ID.

A lively conversation of environmental justice trailblazers from frontline and fence-line communities! They will share about their community’s efforts to fight for clean air in the backdrop of the freight transportation system. Hailing from various areas affected by the pollution from seaports, rail yards, truck routes, and warehouses across the U.S., these EJ leaders will shine light on locally grown climate justice solutions and the strength of coalition and movement building.