Join us for a virtual conversation on Palestinian Resistance, Climate Justice, and Liberation, “Imagining a Palestine without Occupation,” featuring Moayyad Bsharat of Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Jimmy Dunson of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, and Zayneb Al-Shalalfeh of Palestinian Women Water Practitioners Network and moderated by Yusra Bitar of Arab Reform Initiative. Interpretation will be available in Spanish, ASL, and Closed Captions.

We are in a climate emergency, and now more than ever we need to end the era of fossil fuels and advance solutions to ensure a healthy and just planet for current and future generations! 

As global leaders gather in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit and General Assembly, we are calling on governments to reckon with their role in fueling climate chaos, and harm against communities and the planet by continuing the extraction of fossil fuels. We only have a limited amount of years left to address and mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

Bridging commitment to action. The Justice40 Initiative and the Inflation Reduction Act embody the current national commitment to environmental justice aiming to tackle a legacy of disinvestment and pollution in overburdened, underserved, and disadvantaged communities. More than one year into their signature into law can provide great insights into lessons learned, gaps, and opportunities to accomplish their goals.

Discussions will feature Administration and federal agency representatives and BIPOC climate justice leaders. Topics feature will include national climate justice implementation strategies and the roles of people, policy, pedagogy, and philanthropies in delivering them.

The Climate Museum joins forces with Lapham’s Quarterly and the Center for Constitutional Rights to present a special screening of the 2023 eco-thriller film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Andreas Malm.

Calling all New School Community members!

Please join the official New School group in this year’s NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 25.

The first NYC Pride March was held in 1970 and has since become an annual civil rights demonstration. Over the years, NYC Pride March has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to illness, violence and neglect.

The Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law & Graduate School is delighted to announce the upcoming release of our online Environmental Justice State by State (EJSBS) law library and database. On Tuesday, April 4 from 4:30 – 5:30p (Eastern) we are hosting a webinar to preview the development version of this resource and seek feedback from our friends, colleagues, and EJ stakeholders around the country.

Please join us for a conversation about environmental justice with Dr. Ana Baptista. We’ll talk about what environmental justice is, New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law and what it means, what’s next for the EJ movement in New Jersey, and the role that allies can play. 

Join CMEJ, Ana Baptista & Danielle Swift in discussing why zoning matters!

Zoning is one of the most important functions of city law. As zoning was established nearly 100 years ago in many cities across the country, it has historically played a major role in the segregation and concentration of unwanted polluters in lower-income and communities of color.

Join this talk by Tishman Center Faculty Grant Awardee and Parsons Faculty Daniel Michalik. This presentation will be a short "provocation" on the work he was lead over his sabbatical on regenerative systems within cork agriculture and industry and applicable lessons we may learn for other industries.

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.

Join the Center for Progressive Reform and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice on Thursday, March 10, at 2:00 p.m. Central (3 p.m. EST) for a webinar on the proposed rollout of carbon capture and storage in Louisiana and the damaging effects it would have on overburdened and underserved communities if deployed.

The oil and gas industry has targeted Louisiana as an emerging hub for carbon capture, mainly because of the state's large concentration of industrial facilities that emit carbon dioxide. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and state regulators openly support carbon capture as a way to meet the state’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050.

With the summer of 2021 still fresh in many people’s minds, NYC’s practitioners and researchers are still navigating the challenges of extreme rain events like Hurricane Ida, which brought record-shattering amounts of rainfall causing severe flooding, loss of life, and damages to property/infrastructure. Shortly before Ida, the City released its first-ever Stormwater Resiliency Plan. With the plan, pluvial (rainfall) flood risk maps were made publicly available, filling a critical data gap. However, other types of data that are still missing may be needed to support urban resilience against flash flooding such as social media, on-site sensor networks, and other crowdsourcing tools to allow communities to report their own experiences and advocate for new interventions. The use of new data types also surface new questions regarding their potential benefits and challenges. This event will convene a conversation between researchers and practitioners concerning the challenges, needs, and opportunities presented by novel data sourcing, processing, and visualization techniques to advance urban climate resilience.

Danielle Purifoy and Louise Seamster present their conceptual framework for understanding black towns within extractive white space, highlighting questions of citizenship, extraction, and exclusion as they focus on how legal, spatial, racial, and economic systems structure black spaces’ access to infrastructure and facilitate environmental violence.

Join us for *Climate Briefing for NYC Candidates: A Just Transition and Recovery*

This briefing will provide an overview of the climate crisis in New York City, both problems and solutions, to the hundreds of candidates running for local office in 2021, including city council, mayor, comptroller, public advocate, and borough president.

Join Mark Lowery of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's Office of Climate Change and Barbara Kendall, New York Department of State’s Office of Planning, Development and Community Infrastructure for a primer on new guidance and standards for flood risk management, infrastructure siting and design guidelines and model local laws under New York's Community Risk and Resilience Act.

Learn about best practices to implement a successful PB process to address climate change in your city.

This innovative work of documentary theatre weaves together community storytelling, original research, field recordings, photography, and an original, improvised score to explore what it means to be human during the reign of fossil fuels.

Join musician, author, and Red Hook resident Tanya Kalmanovitch as she guides audiences through her personal reckoning with oil & uncovers how decisions made in her hometown of Fort McMurray, Canada, affect us all.

PERFORMANCE ONE NIGHT ONLY - November 13th - 7pm

Participatory Audience Workshops to follow November 14th at 2pm & 7pm (separate event links)

Wildfires, hurricanes, famines, and the pandemic – we live on a planet already in deep ecological crisis, with worse to come if today’s climate inaction, soaring inequality, and state violence continue. To shift things and win a just transition, we need ambitious planning and abundant struggle.

Proposals from around the world for a Green New Deal have highlighted the need to win popular control of the infrastructures of energy production and distribution. Fossil capitalism must be shut down since further production of coal, oil, and gas will doom the planet to climate chaos. Meanwhile, construction of renewable energy must be massively accelerated.

The World Health Organization calls violence against women “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.” Despite increased attention to this issue, the current approach is not working for women and girls, men, or the communities in which they live.

What will it take to end violence against women? This critical conversation brings together leaders from Black Women’s Blueprint and Men Stopping Violence – U.S. organizations that work across borders, genders, and movements – to reimagine models for violence prevention.

Across Mother Earth, Indigenous peoples are keystone societies, fostering ecosystem richness and regeneration across the planet. This talk foregrounds exemplary cases in Turtle Island and Abya Yala (the Americas), while touching on on examples from elsewhere in the world; it underlines how Indigenous revitalization/re-Indigenization in hand with decolonization and land rematriation are key both to Indigenous resurgence and to the restoration of biocultural diversity.

We’re launching a campaign for a Climate, Jobs, and Justice Recovery to call on the state legislature and governor to act at the scale of the interrelated climate, injustice, and economic crises:

• Invest in communities hit hardest by the climate and economic crisis

• Create good, green jobs with family-sustaining wages and labor protections

• Move NY State to 100% renewable energy

• Make polluters pay for toxins that harm the planet and poison our communities

SOLIDARITY SCHOOL (350.ORG)

WEDNESDAYS, 8/12, 9/9, 10/7, 11/11, 8PM EASTERN/5PM PACIFIC

Each session covers a topic at the intersection of climate and social justice:

• Our Fight for a Just Recovery: Workers' Rights, Racial Justice, COVID & Climate

• Defund, Abolish & Divest: Climate, Racial & Economic Justice

• Protecting Votes & Building Power: Climate Justice & the Election

• From Recovery to Restoration: Holding Politicians Accountable & Organizing for a Just Transition

AASHE stands in solidarity with the Black community and everyone fighting for racial equality and social justice (RESJ). We recognize that to be silent on issues of injustice of any kind, is to be complicit. We encourage faculty, administrators, staff, and students to start and continue conversations about the role higher education plays in creating and perpetuating racial injustice. We’ve assembled a list of resources related to understanding race, sustainability and anti-racism. This is intended to be a living document so please add to this list of RESJ Resources for the Higher Education Sustainability Community.

Our monthly "Green Table Talk" session will feature a virtual panel of experts discussing the intersection of environmental racism, Black trauma and the devastating impact on the social determinants of health: socioeconomic status, education, neighborhood and physical environment, employment, social support networks, as well as access to health care.

Learn from NYC visionaries in policy, health, and education on how we can keep our families safe and healthy, while leading the way for an equitable and fair “new normal”.

This event will present the 2020 NYC Environmental Justice Alliance’s Climate Justice Agenda, as a sequel to AIA's Earth Day program, followed by a response from climate scientists, designers, and urban planning experts.

We'll be discussing the multiple frontlines faced by Black people, why it's critical for the climate movement to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and how climate activists can support Black Lives Matter. The panel will feature several organizers who do work addressing policing issues as well as environmental racism and climate justice.