The Climate Justice Club is thrilled to announce the Earth Day Art Show 2024, scheduled for April 20th!

This Earth Day Art show is hosted by the Climate Justice Club and will take place on Saturday, April 20, 11 am - 8 pm, Second floor of 39 W 13th Street. There will be drinks, food, and live music to bring together the New School's climate justice community. The purpose of the show is to represent voices and stories that are impacted by climate change and environmental injustice and show artwork from people in our communities that are advocating for equity, inclusivity, justice, and more.

Join us for Black Lands and the Poetics of Citizenship, a multimedia panel discussion about the contradictions and revelations of Black land ownership in rural America. The event will feature excerpts from the works of  Amy Godine (The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier), Paul A. Miller (Searching for Timbuctoo), and Dr. Gail Myers (Rhythms of the Land). New School Professors Drs. Kristin Reynolds and Mia Charlene White will moderate the conversation, joined by Mike Harrington, Director of Sustainability Engagement of the Tishman Environment and Design Center and Wendy Scheir, Director of The New School Archives & Special Collections.

Join us for a transformative Earth Month event highlighting the results and recommendations from an 18-month study to understand future climate change in New York City, commissioned by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice and Department of Citywide Administrative Services called the "Climate Vulnerability, Impact, and Adaptation Analysis (VIA)."  The study explores how current and emerging hazards such as flooding, sea level rise, and extreme heat pose substantial challenges to the city's infrastructure and communities. Learn more about this interdisciplinary effort bringing together expertise in academia, government, and the private sector, co-led by Professors Timon McPhearson and Joel Towers at The New School in partnership with NYC Interagency Collaborators. The results of the study will be used to inform development of the NYC Panel on Climate Change’s 4th Assessment. They focus on four key areas:

Join us to create a space to take a breath and just Be. Schantell Taylor and Marcia lee from Healing by Choice! will hold an interactive space to touch our grief and navigate these challenging and changing times with water and the wastelands as our mirrors. We will learn embodied practices and have space for self-reflection and small groups. Please be in a place where you listen to yourself and the earth. If possible, though not required, it would be lovely to be somewhere where you can touch this earth.

Please note, this event is only for The New School students, staff, and faculty. You will need to use your The New School email address to register. 

Tishman Center is hosting a special event, Centering Justice: A Conversation with Environmental Justice Leaders. You will want to attend this public and free event!

UPDATED PROGRAM 

We are delighted to share that Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome, the first-ever Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), will join us for an empowering conversation with our distinguished keynote speaker, Dr. Beverley Wright.

The Tishman Center's co-director, Dr. Ana Baptista, will be our insightful moderator. We have also added a high-energy performance by Batalá New York, the premier All-Women, Black-led Afro-Brazilian percussion ensemble, to the program.

Cities such as New York are at serious risk from climate change, and have the power and responsibility to take the lead on solutions. This Symposium will explore potential scalable regenerative technologies for the world's largest urban constructed environments. The material science of carbon storing building components is receiving much needed attention, but scalable solutions need wider adoption and development. The building industry is focused on reaching carbon neutrality in operations and construction, taking a holistic view of the enormity of this responsibility. Passive House energy efficiency coupled with scalable carbon storing materials for widespread use and large urban contexts, can provide the solution humanity needs and deserves now.  Join us as we explore the emerging tools, policy, start-up financing, and material science around embodied carbon in high performance architecture.

Cities such as New York are at serious risk from climate change, and have the power and responsibility to take the lead on solutions. This Symposium will explore potential scalable regenerative technologies for the world's largest urban constructed environments. The material science of carbon storing building components is receiving much needed attention, but scalable solutions need wider adoption and development. The building industry is focused on reaching carbon neutrality in operations and construction, taking a holistic view of the enormity of this responsibility. Passive House energy efficiency coupled with scalable carbon storing materials for widespread use and large urban contexts, can provide the solution humanity needs and deserves now. Join us as we explore the emerging tools, policy, start-up financing, and material science around embodied carbon in high performance architecture.

As communities and cities increasingly experience the impacts of climate change, the need for solutions and scalable actions have never been more important. This is especially true in large cities like New York, which are wrestling with a range of hazards from extreme heat and rainfall, to sea level rise and coastal flooding. But what are some of the emerging ideas, technologies, and solutions that organizations are advancing worldwide to address the ongoing climate crisis? Join senior leaders from across the public, private, and social sectors for an engaging discussion on the potential and challenges of leveraging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate climate action.

The Tishman Environment and Design Center is excited to delve into the critical issue of ensuring that the historic levels of federal funding resource frontline solutions for the climate crisis and environmental justice. This conversation will be focused on the opportunities and challenges for leveraging federal funding for environmental justice communities. 

While local zoning codes and land use policies historically have been tools for segregating people and concentrating pollution in low-income communities and communities of color, community-based advocacy can transform these same tools into means for addressing cumulative burdens borne by environmental justice communities.

Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Milano School's Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (EPSM) program for an Earth Month mixer at the new Tishman Center space at 79 5th Avenue. We will have snacks and refreshments on hand.

RSVP to our Earth Day Art Show happening on Saturday, April 22nd from 3-8pm, located at Wollman Hall on the 5th floor of the 11street Eugene Lang Building. This event is hosted by Climate Justice and BIPOC Earth Club at The New School to provide an alternative form of knowledge sharing in regard to environmental justice. TNS Student artists will showcase works in a variety of mediums such as sculpture, visual arts, multi-media, fashion, and more to highlight relationships with Mother Earth and demonstrate creative ways to implement environmental optimism and awareness in their lives. We believe that in holding this social event we can provide the public with the opportunity for building meaningful relationships with one another on issues that affect us all, so we hope you will join us for this immersive experience. There will be food, drinks, prizes, music, interactive art-making, and more! 

Over two decades ago Dr. Gail P. Myers, the co-founder of Farms to Grow, Inc and director of Rhythms of the Land, interviewed her first 92-year-old elder on life and legacy of a sharecropper. During the summer of 2012, Dr. Myers toured 10 southern states, interviewing over 30 farmers, sharecroppers, and gardeners and a 5th generation coil basket weaver. Several of these interviews are with elders, 98, 92, and 109.  

Rhythms of the Land fills the gap of the missing narrative after emancipation and honors black farmers as stewards of the land, love of family and community despite the overwhelming odds of life as a sharecropper.

For American architect and filmmaker Eric Franklin Romeo, better understanding the nuances of the environments that surround us has always served as a primer to designing within it. Over the last five years he has been observing the forgotten and underestimated areas of New York City through the moving lens of film.

His new documentary, And the Worlds That Surround, combines these striking visuals with experimental sound design, compelling interviews and captivating musical compositions to create a journey into a world within the world’s greatest city, while highlighting the impact that this urban development has had on the natural environment.

Are you curious about what we do at the Tishman Center or how you can get involved in the work we do? Are you curious about how the university itself handles things like waste, energy and water usage? Do you have questions about Environmental or Climate Justice or want to know about our student and faculty grant programs? Have questions about the Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship? Do you have suggestions for improving sustainability at the university?

Join this informal online info session to learn about sustainability at the university and how you can get involved as a student, staff or faculty member. We welcome all of your questions! 

Join researchers from the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Urban Systems Lab for a conversation exploring new research on environmental policy, sustainability, and urban resilience! As increasing resources and attention get directed toward climate and clean energy initiatives, it is imperative to understand how these efforts both contribute toward and detract from social and racial equity.

ndigenous peoples are the most impacted by decisions made about our waterways. Indigenous original instructions embedded in our languages and ancient stories, ceremonies and rituals maintain, sustain and protect biodiversity. We will have two panels of Indigenous speakers from various regions of the world. Speakers will address the central roles of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous governance as real solutions.

Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda chronicles the deadly impacts of uranium mining on adivasis (South Asian Indigenous peoples) living in the community of Jadugoda in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. Decades of unsafe mining, milling, and tailings management by the Uranium Corporation of India have contaminated the water, land, and air, destroying local ecosystems and causing cancer, congenital birth defects, and numerous other health problems among local residents. The film highlights the gross abuse of power by state authorities that has displaced the original inhabitants of the region and abrogated internationally accepted norms and safety precautions for the handling of uranium and its by-products.

Lake Superior Our Helper: Stories from Batchewanaung Anishinabek Fisheries (2022, Batchewana First Nation) follows Chief Dean Sayers through a series of conversations with community members to reveal the cultural, political, and ecological relationships surrounding their fisheries. Inviting us on a journey of Lake Superior, the film shares the messages of Elders, youth, fishers, community leaders, and their visions for the future of Batchewana’s fisheries. It also documents how fishing has changed over time, conflicts with the Canadian state around management and regulation, principles of Indigenous law, and the culture and ceremony that are deeply embedded within fishing practices.

Kenneth Frampton is an architect, critic, historian, and previously Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (1972-2021). His most important works include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Thames & Hudson, 1980; 5th edition 2020), Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (MIT Press, 1995), and The Other Modern Movement (Yale University Press,2021).

The upcoming 27th UNFCCC Conference Of the Parties (COP) in Egypt has been optimistically designed as a space for governments, policy makers, business, and civil society to confront the growing climate crisis. This year, Social Movements are being restricted from organizing on the “streets” to build power with local Egyptian communities not accredited to enter the COP official spaces - seriously limiting the input of civil society in the COP negotiations.

This event is a part of The Henry Cohen Lecture Series, which will bring leading thinkers, changemakers, policymakers, journalists, and activists to the New School to present their perspectives. This series will explore the intersections of race, social stratification, and political economy in order to help students gain skills and knowledge to foster economic and racial justice.

In this panel discussion, Associate Professor of Politics Deva R. Woodly will discuss her recent book, Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Drawing from on-the-ground interviews with activists in the movement, in Reckoning Woodly analyzes the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, its organizational structure and culture, and its strategies and tactics. She also shows how a unique political philosophy - Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism - served as an intellectual foundation of the movement and documents the role it played in transforming public meanings, public opinion, and policy. Interweaving theoretical and empirical observations throughout, Woodly provides both a unique portrait of the movement and a powerful explanation of the labor social movements do in democracy. A major work that speaks to both scholars and activists, Woodly's account of the rise and spread of M4BL reshapes our understanding of why the movement is so important - and so necessary - for democracy.

When 29 leaders from Africa and Asia met in Bandung in 1955, their purpose was to define a common vision of the postcolonial future, for their countries and the world. They constituted a coalition - The Third World - to pursue an agenda for a decolonized world order, with commitments to human rights, equality and self determination.

As part of the Milano School’s Henry Cohen Lecture Series and in honor of International Women’s Day, please join us for a conversation as these three dynamic leaders discuss and chart a more inclusive and just political economy.

Join our speakers:

Nina Turner, former Ohio State Senator and Bernie 2020 Campaign Co-Chair

Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder in Residence, PolicyLink, and the host of the Radical Imagination podcast

Melanie F. Hart, Senior Legal and Policy Advisor, Institute for Race, Power and Political Economy and Senior Vice President for Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice and Chief Diversity Officer at The New School

Meet faculty, students, alumni to learn about our approach to science and math courses and how STEM can help shape your personal, professional and activist work. We will discuss career trajectories via three student presentations:

Marikit Mayeno will share her experiences as an arts and education intern at Biobus; Makaleh Smith will showcase her botany & climate research at Harvard; and Wes Thomason will share his research on Urban Resilience with the Urban Systems Lab. We will also discuss the Interdisciplinary Science Statement to get started on your own amazing trajectory!

Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, (2020, University of Minnesota Press), edited by Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, analyzes how Blackness is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes our sustenance “healthy,” and Black individuals’ own beliefs about what their cuisine should be. This comprehensive look at Black food culture and the various forms of violence that threaten the future of this cuisine centers Blackness in a field that has too often framed Black issues through a white-centric lens, offering new ways to think about access, privilege, equity, and justice.

Join us on March 11th for a presentation and discussion with Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor of Food Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Minkoff-Zern will discuss her new book The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (2019, MIT Press).