Join us for an electrifying keynote conversation with leading energy justice voices as we kick off the Tishman Environment and Design Center’s 20th-anniversary celebration!

 At this pivotal moment — with frontline communities continuing to push for bold, equitable climate solutions — how do we sustain the momentum and advance a just, clean energy transition?

 This dynamic, solutions-focused panel will highlight real-world, community-led projects driving energy justice, sharing insights on what’s working, what’s next, and how we keep building power despite systemic challenges.

 The Food Studies Program, The Tishman Environment and Design Center, and the Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab (FJAR)  at The New School are honored to present this multi-media panel event featuring author, sound practitioner, and DJ Lynnée Denise; artist, curator, mother, and producer Elissa Blount Moorhead; and Assistant Professor of Race and Media in the School of Media Studies at The New School Dr. Brittnay Proctor-Habil. The event is part of the Food Studies Program’s “Food, Foraging, and Social Justice” series and The New School’s Earth Month activities. It is also co-sponsored by the SexTech Lab and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School.

Join Mother Jones, Grist, and the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School for a discussion about equity, infrastructure, jobs, and the urban energy transition. Featuring the “father of environmental justice,” Dr. Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University, Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice), Jade Begay (Indigenous Rights Advocate and Climate Researcher) and Leah Thomas (Intersectional Environmentalist), we’ll dig into the issues, opportunities, and solutions driving an equitable transformation for America.

Join Mother Jones, Grist, and the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School for a discussion about equity, infrastructure, jobs, and the urban energy transition. Featuring the “father of environmental justice,” Dr. Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University, Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice), Jade Begay (Indigenous Rights Advocate and Climate Researcher) and Leah Thomas (Intersectional Environmentalist), we’ll dig into the issues, opportunities, and solutions driving an equitable transformation for America.

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. 

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 us this Earth Day for a dual in-person and Zoom teach-in and discussion led by young organizers made especially for organizers working at the cross-section of justice & environmental issues.

Let's celebrate Earth Day by taking a deep dive into a mysterious and mundane aspect of everyday life: plastics. Parsons faculty Jess Irish will screen her award-winning doc short (21 min), followed by a discussion of why plastics are both magical and monstrous, and what kinds of change can really make a difference.

This event will be recorded and shared with registered attendees afterward.

Join Parsons School of Constructed Environments and the Tishman Center for an event about the future of the streets in NYC after the multiple transformations that took place as a response to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We have seen a lot of opening of the streetscape with the Open Streets, Open Restaurants and the annual Street Seats program that The New School has been doing for some time. We will bring in the perspectives of designers, planners and others who will discuss how the future of the streets may look and how we align the changes in the streetscapes along with environmental and social goals.

Dia de Sol (Diasporas Decolonizing in Solidarity) presents a zoom panel for Earth week, "Healing Tongues: Revitalizing Oral Traditions & The Struggle for Climate Justice," on April 23, 2021, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. EST. The panel will be featuring Lily Mendoza from the Center for Babaylan Studies (CFBS), Nazka Serrano, a Kichwa Warmi community organizer and story keeper, Mare Advertencia Lirika, a Zapotec rapper, feminist, and migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Naawéiyaa Austin Tagaba, a basket weaver, screen printer, musician, language learner and teacher from Native Movement Alaska.

This panel gathers voices from diverse key projects from across Abya Yala and Turtle Island (‘the Americas’) that embody real solutions based on decolonizing communal alternatives. Indigenous communality and reciprocity forms the basis of projects to reconstitute territories of life. Such projects are real, decolonizing solutions to intersecting “syndemic” crises of health, environment/climate, food and systemic violence (including state and corporate violence).

The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement (The New Press, May 4, 2021) captures the riveting stories and hard-won strategies from a broad cross section of pivotal environmental actions and highlights the struggles against polluting corporations and industry while featuring movements, activists, and organizations that are already working toward a positive vision of a just, regenerative society.

Join us for our Earth Week keynote conversation between Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Founder of Urban Ocean Lab & Co-Founder of the All We Can Save Project) and Dr. Mia White (Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies in the Environmental Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School).

Is higher education preparing students for the world that we are living in and the one that is to come? Join in on this discussion between educators about knowledge, curriculum, pedagogy and who gets to shape those concepts. This event hopes to spark a discussion around how to frame the climate crisis in education, systemic change and community production of knowledge. The panel will be moderated by 2020 Aronson Fellow Daniela Lam and feature faculty from Parsons and Milano representing different fields of study.

On Thursday April 23rd, 2020 at 3:30 pm EST Chair Raúl M. Grijalva and Rep. Donald McEachin of the House Committee on Natural Resources will host a virtual roundtable to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental justice communities. You may view the virtual roundtable on Facebook live and YouTube.

Join the Tufts Environmental Studies Program, the Office of Sustainability, the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, the Tufts Institute of the Environment and the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day with a special edition of the Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series.

The film is a climate-organizing tool that spotlights Indigenous women, community-led resistance and amplifies the voices of targeted communities to catalyze critical intercultural dialogues, shift public opinion and coordinate urgent joint actions to rapidly reorient our pathway.

We live in unsettling times of converging environmental and health crises. Globally, from climate change and mass species extinction to the spread of both chronic and communicable diseases—now including COVID-19, we face catastrophes that compel us to rethink life and health as a whole. As ‘modern’ societies grapple with a seemingly ‘unprecedented’ planetary chaos, now preceded by an indefinite suspension of the ‘normal’ way of life (given COVID-19), Indigenous Peoples locate these crises differently, as part of a long sequence of devastating environmental disruptions and pandemics spreading from the onset of violent conquest to the climate and health injustices of globalization’s (neo)colonial and settler colonial present. Being distinctively and particularly impacted all along, Indigenous resistance and resilience find strength in the embodied knowledge that another world is possible outside and beyond the colonial present of environmental and health injustices.

Lets build on our understanding and act together as a student body to influence critical institutional changes at The New School. Here's how we do:

1. Thinking local to global perspectives we welcome guest speakers from WEACT, Americorps and Peace Corps, to share and discuss their experience in building climate resilience in their communities. Speakers present from 6-6:45, last 15 minutes open for Q&A.

2. Assessing where we are now as The New School community; We welcome the student senate, and active student group representatives as we take a quick dive into their efforts and obstacles in building climate resilience within TNS community. Presentations: 7-7:30

3. Acting locally, we hand the mic and pen to the students in attendance to create a list of educated recommendations: How should TNS prepare for this climate crisis? (working on this Q) All recommendations will be presented by the student senate in a Memorandum of Understanding and from there to be presented to TNS.