
Campus Engagement
The Tishman Center co-designs and implements university policies that establish sustainability, climate change, and service as core practices. In addition to the work we do on campus, the Tishman Center supports The New School community members who are engaged with their external communities as a means of discovering ways we can expand our reach beyond the campus.
We collaborate with a variety of academic and administrative departments on campus to implement, measure, and promote sustainable practices at The New School.
We collaborate with Buildings, Dining, Housing and Residential Education, Social Justice Initiatives, the office of Student Leadership and Involvement, and Student Support and Crisis Management, among others, to develop environmentally sound actions students, faculty, and staff can or should practice on campus.
Related Events
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.
Join Dr Strouble, at an evening of dialogue on connecting the themes of By Any Dreams Necessary—environmental justice, racial equity, and resilience—with the urgent need for solidarity across our movements. Dr. Strouble will be sharing a reading from his book and open up for a lively discussion. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Bruce W. Strouble, Ph.D., is a seasoned program manager specializing in community development, sustainability, and resilience. His experience includes leading innovative programs for Groundwork USA, the City of Tallahassee, and Florida A&M University’s Sustainability Institute. As the executive director of Citizens for a Sustainable Future Inc. and Board Chair of ReThink Energy Florida, he has consistently advanced environmental justice and climate resilience through innovative approaches that empower underserved communities to tackle climate challenges and build sustainable futures.
Join us for the release of Cultivating the Conditions for Black Liberation and Just Transition: An Encyclopedia of Power, Peril, and U.S. Climate Finance Policy Prerequisites. This groundbreaking paper examines how climate finance must be restructured to move beyond colonial patterns of extraction and toward materially repairing historical harm.
Through a dynamic panel conversation, speakers will unpack the paper’s core analysis and explore pathways for building Black nation- and community-controlled alternatives that are resilient in the face of institutional backlash.
Interpretation will be available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Brunch will be served.
The Federal Unionists Network's policy institute, Government for the People, is launching a collaboration between federal unionists, other rank and file public servants, and environmental justice leaders to generate a new blueprint for federal agencies on environmental and climate justice. Join us to help shape a vision for the future that ensures climate and environmental justice for all.
This event is sponsored by the New School's Tishman and Environment Design Center. Participants from community organizations, public service networks, labor, policy groups, and philanthropy are encouraged to attend.
Join Indigenous Youth leaders from Not Our Native Daughters and the Pueblo Action Alliance for an immersive and culturally grounded experience during NYC Climate Week.
This isn’t another lecture or traditional panel — this is an engagement-based gathering rooted in culture, ceremony, and conversation-led by Indigenous youth leaders from across the country to share teachings, stories, and solutions for protecting our land, water, and future.
Attendees will be invited to:
Experience cultural grounding through ceremonial opening, story, and traditional knowledge-sharing;
Learn directly from Indigenous youth leaders about their work and advocacy;
Explore ancestral teachings and ecological knowledge as pathways to protecting the sacred;
Engage in collective calls to action and discover how you can elevate Indigenous voices through collaborative efforts.
Indigenous youth have inherited the impacts of the climate crisis, but they are also carrying forward ancestral responsibility to protect the land, water, and communities. This gathering celebrates their leadership, amplifies their voices, and invites you to stand in solidarity with their vision for a just and sustainable future.
Be part of an evening filled with culture, connection, and climate justice — where we honor the past, empower the present, and build the future together.
All students from The New School and other universities are most welcome! Please share this invite with your classmates.
Presented by the Pueblo Action Alliance's Youth Justice Program and Not Our Native Daughters' Indigenous Youth Voices Program in collaboration with Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School
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.
Hear powerful, personal stories from Grist 50 Fixers past and present, as well as Grist journalists who report on the people, policies, and ideas driving climate progress. Through these stories, we’ll spotlight the real-world ways that bold ideas can turn into impact. We’ll also take a moment to reflect on Grist’s 25-year journey as the nation’s only independent newsroom reporting solely on climate change, as well as a celebration of the people and ideas driving meaningful change in climate solutions.
You’re invited to Healing Is an Inside Job, our Climate Week town hall gathering in New York City.
If you work in environment, climate or energy please join us to make space, and dig in for honest conversation about our inner work, collective healing, and plans for community transformation .
Vegan bites and refreshments will be served.
Location: NYC, For Community Safety Reasons the Exact Location Will be Shared After RSVP .
Date: Friday, September 26, 2025
Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Join us for Una Sola Lucha, a powerful screening of five short films from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Colombia, and the Pacific that spotlight frontline stories of resistance, resilience, and collective justice. The evening will include a guided discussion connecting these struggles to broader movements for regenerative and climate justice. We will hear from Defiende a Cabo Rojo, ClimaLab, the Brazilian Center for Climate Justice, the Pacific Islands Students Against Climate Change, and El Puente. This event is hosted by Climate Trace Puerto Rico with the support of Blue and White Magazine and the Columbia Climate School Environmental and Climate Justice Project. We aim to create a space of cultural exchange, raise awareness of shared challenges, and inspire collective action among participants.
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This past April, we had the honor of welcoming the EJ Disrupt Design Fellowship (EJDD) to our land, Borikén (Puerto Rico). As EJDD host committee chairs and tech coach, this experience was a collective invocation of memory, place, ancestry, and shared struggle across waters and generations.
From June 23-28, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) will host the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond—a free, virtual gathering bringing together over 125 women and gender diverse leaders from 50 countries. This global convening will include 25 panels across 6 days, spotlighting powerful, community-rooted solutions and strategies to the climate crisis.
By telling the story of Community First Fund’s innovative approach, we highlight the outcomes of their efforts and provide a replicable model and blueprint for others to follow—especially for those with the resources to do this work in the next four years. As the landscape of federal policy and investments continues to evolve, recent gains in support for environmental justice projects are already being threatened. The continued implementation of the federal Thriving Communities programs will undoubtedly face hurdles, necessitating further support and engagement with EJ groups and communities.
We hope this research report reflects recent achievements and calls on all EJ advocates to keep the momentum going. In this challenging new era, we must ensure that our stories inform and transform the policies and practices that affect our lives and our planet.