Step into a world where art, music, economics, and environmental awareness come together as the Henry George School of Social Science presents: “Sound Economics: Celebrating Earth Day 2024 Through Art, Music, and Economics.” This innovative event invites you on a journey of exploration and reflection, weaving together classical melodies, contemporary compositions, and powerful visual narratives to shed light on the urgent issue of climate change.

Black Ecologies Earthday Event with Michaela Harrison & Mia C. White

ZOOM Apr 29, 2022 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Michaela Harrison’s ocean-song-healing work with the whales situates the ocean as a site of Black artistic production, healing, and possibility for living in an age of climate grief and ongoing racial oppression. Her whale-song / whale whispering can be understood in the tradition of reclamation and research-as-lived-experience. It is Black metaphysical space-making through expressive culture and historical witness/resistance, offering epistemologies for a community-environment relation which is so necessary for our collective climate futures.

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.

This panel was preceded by Hoodwinked in the Hothouse I: Examining False Corporate Schemes being advanced through the Paris Agreement and by Hoodwinked in the Hothouse Part II: Frontline Voices of Indigenous Resistance beyond Climate False Solutions. The recording of these events is available here and here.

With federal and state governments poised to provide billions in climate subsidies, policy incentives and tax breaks to dangerous and dirty energy industries such as biomass and waste incinerators; nuclear power, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure for fossil-fuel facilities, frontline and environmental justice communities around the world are facing increased pollution burdens and toxic threats.

Recounting stories from the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, the recent book In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California (2021, NYU Press) by Daniel O’Connell and Scott Peters brings together the experiences of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition to industrial-scale agribusiness in California. As the narrative unfolds, these eight scholars’ previously censored and suppressed research, together with personal accounts of intimidation and subterfuge, is introduced into the public arena for the first time. This event, a part of the Fall 2021 “Food and the Public” series, will begin with these narratives as grounding for a discussion and public discourse on timely agricultural justice and policy issues in New York City and State

This panel was preceded by Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Examining False Corporate Schemes being advanced through the Paris Agreement. The recording of this event is available here.

This panel features Indigenous organizers from frontline communities that are disproportionately impacted by false solutions to the climate crisis. From Mapuche communities in Chile, to Dine communities in Southwest Turtle Island, climate false solutions such as nuclear power, megadams, fracking, and many more continue to cause displacement and disaster in Indigenous communities worldwide.

Commonly used and designed open spaces are anchor points in the city and a possible response to the consequences of urbanization and climate change, as well as to the presence of social and cultural differences. Urban Open Space + Strategies in between Architecture and Open Space Planning, edited by Dr. Carolin Mees, provides a unique interdisciplinary discourse of scientific texts and opinion papers by international experts depicting the diversity of add-ons from a range of micro- and macro-perspectives, and offering strategies for collaborative, multi-coded urban spaces at the intersection of architecture and open space planning.

The presentation will go in-depth about the ideas, research & activities that Dream Garden in the Anthropocene encompasses, as well as documentation photos. In Spring 2021 I have been diagramming, researching, drawing, writing a very long text, clearing, regenerating soil, speaking to my grandmother, caring, learning, planting with the help of friends & The New School community. The land is a 0.2 acre lot of land on Eastern Long Island or Paumanok, NY I acquired this year. I hope you can join us!

We are on Native Land. We uplift the health of the land and her people by centering Indigenous sovereignty and First Nations rights. This North East bioregion, so called New York State, is home to many neighboring Native nations. Today we will focus on Haudenosaunee liberation and struggle. As Indigenous people and allies, we fight to ensure a beautiful thriving future for the next seven generations. We can restore and uphold the most thorough care for the ground we stand on.

Please join the Interdisciplinary Science Information Session to learn about our course offerings, our approach to science and math, and how science, in concert with other disciplinary perspectives, can help shape your personal, professional, and activist work.

The Resilience Roundtable is a series of in-depth discussions with designers, scientists, scholars, activists, and artists exploring the intersection of design, data visualization, and interdisciplinary scholarship on urban ecology, environmental justice, and sustainable cities. Each Roundtable session connects to an issue of Resilience Quarterly, a publication co-produced by the Urban Systems Lab and a rotating editorial team. The Fall 2020 Issue, “Is This America?”, examines the future of cities in the age of COVID-19. As the pandemic continues to impact communities across the U.S. and world, what is a just and equitable response? How do we implement new and progressive approaches to design, urban planning, city governance, and climate justice?

"Managed Retreat" is a short documentary portrait of three New York City neighborhoods that were purchased by the New York State government in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, to be demolished and returned to nature as part of the city’s first ‘managed retreat’ from rising sea levels. By the end of this century, New York City is expected to have up to 9.5 feet of sea level rise, radically reshaping its 520 miles of coastline, and impacting more than 100 coastal neighborhoods. This observational documentary follows the process of retreat over the course of one year in three waterfront communities on Staten Island, as homes are destroyed, streets are abandoned, and wild animals begin to return.

Join Merlin Sheldrake, author of 'Enchanted Life' for an hour of conversation and Q & A about the secret and exuberant lives of fungi. Along with Sustainable Systems faculty member, Oliver Kellhammer and course coordinator Arta Yazdanseta, we will explore the amazing potential of fungal mycelium as both an inspiration and a working material for sustainable, regenerative and resilient design. We'll start out with a short presentation by Merlin, and a brief follow-up by Oliver detailing some of the mycelium work being done at Parsons followed by a panel discussion and then open it up to Q&A from students and faculty during the second half.