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As we end a record-breaking HOT Summer and enter the Fall Season, the Tishman Center has many offerings to share with our on-campus and broader community.
The Aronson Fellowship Application is now open! The Aronson Fellowship is open to all students (undergraduate and graduate) at The New School. The Fellowship provides a minimum of $5,000 in financial support to students who wish to co-develop a project, research, or body of work related to environmental or climate justice, climate change, or sustainability with the Tishman Center. The application is due September 30th. Apply here.
Also, September is Climate Week in New York City! We can not wait to welcome you to various events we are co-hosting and at events organized by our environmental justice partners. Below, you will see a roundup of some of those events. The events page on our website will be updated regularly with environmental and climate justice events led by local grassroots organizations.
Environmental justice and climate justice grassroots communities are building holistic climate solutions. Join us during Climate Week to imagine a community-led future grounded in justice for all.
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Mark Your Calendars: Environmental & Climate Justice-related Events
at The New School
#ClimateWeek2024 #EJisDemocracy #CenteringJustice #EJDisruptDesign
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 6:00PM to 8:00PM (EDT)
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International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal Survivor Tour
Forty years after the devastating Bhopal gas leak, survivors continue to fight for justice. This event features their stories and explores the global connections between environmental injustices caused by multinational corporations. Learn more about their ongoing struggle and how you can support them.
Location:
Starr Foundation Hall, Room UL102
63 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10003
You can learn more about the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal here.
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Monday, September 16, 2024, 1:00PM to 2:30PM (EDT)
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Building Climate Justice Leadership: A Centering Justice Webinar
As the world is experiencing increased political and ecological disruption, educators, knowledge keepers, and lifelong learners are coming together to seek innovative solutions. We are united in our goal to dismantle the structural inequities of the past and build an equitable climate future through collaborative teaching and learning. The Building Climate Justice Leadership panel discussion is a testament to this collaboration, aiming to advance thinking and action related to the growing and supporting the future of climate justice leadership.
Location:
Virtual (Online Zoom)
Presented by the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School & Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment at the University of Michigan
With the support from the Mellon Foundation & Waverley Street Foundation
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Thursday, September 19, 2024, 12:00PM to 2:00PM (EDT)
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Build, Fight, Transform: Building a Regenerative Economy through the Practices of Solidarity, Decolonization, and Degrowth
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with Kali Akuno, a leading environmental justice activist and co-founder of Cooperation Jackson. As an environmental justice leader, Kali is working on a transformative book, The Build and Fight Formula, which aims to provide strategic suggestions for social movements in the US and beyond. Don't miss this opportunity to learn groundbreaking approaches to building participatory democracy, regenerating social relations, and ending exploitation.
Location:
The New School, Wolff Conference Room
Albert and Vera List Academic Center, room D1103
6 East 16th Street, NY, NY
You can learn more about Cooperation Jackson's work here.
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Monday, September 23, 2024, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EDT)
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Better Worlds Ahead: Realizing Our Brighter Climate Futures
**This Event has reached capacity for now. You can join the waitlist here, and as seats open up, we will add names from the waitlist based on the order in which we receive your request. All event attendees and waitlist registrants will receive a video recording of the event. All ticket-holders, we highly suggest that you arrive early, as seats are first come, first serve.**
To navigate our current climate reality, we must imagine a better climate future. Join visionaries Stacey Abrams (Rewiring America) and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Urban Ocean Lab) for an in-depth conversation about imagining better futures, finding hope and motivation for continued action, and where climate solutions are already taking root. Esteemed multi-disciplinary artist Aisha Shillingford (Intelligent Mischief) will guide an interactive visioning exercise to help us collectively articulate the climate futures we want and how we can start building them now.
Location:
Tishman Auditorium (University Center)
63 5th Ave New York NY 10003
Presented by the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, Rewiring America, Grist, and Mother Jones.
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We are excited to announce that Arturo O'Farrill, multi-Grammy awarded-winning artist and appointed piano faculty at The New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and at the Mannes School of Music, will share an opening performance for this event. You can learn more about Arturo O'Farrill here.
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Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6:00PM to 8:00PM (EDT)
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Grassroots Power: Perspectives on the Impact & Scale of Community-Led Climate Solutions
Join us for a transformative conversation on how grassroots-led climate solutions are essential for systemic change. Environmental justice and climate justice are building holistic solutions that, despite their potential, funders and policymakers may underestimate. Our panelists, seasoned leaders from frontline communities, will share real-world examples of how these solutions redefine success in climate action and how to support these transformative programs and models across academia, government, the private sector, and philanthropy.
Location:
The New School Wollman Hall
66 West 12th St., NYC
Presented by the Tishman Environment and Design Center, the Climate Justice Alliance, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
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Other Climate Week Community Events
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“Climate Justice Lives Here!” Community Festival
September 28, 2024
Time: 2 PM - 7 PM
Climate Justice Center, 462 36th St, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Join UPROSE for the “Climate Justice Lives Here!” community festival on Saturday, September 28th, 2024, in Sunset Park. This significant event concludes NYC Climate Week and marks the 10th anniversary of the People’s Climate March, celebrating the pivotal role of frontline communities in advancing climate justice. The festival will take place at the Brooklyn Army Terminal waterfront, offering a vibrant array of activities, including cultural performances, poetry readings, learning circles, and art projects, all centered around raising awareness for climate justice. A multicultural food bazaar featuring local vendors will provide delicious offerings, while a dynamic multi-media communications strategy will amplify the often-overlooked voices and stories during Climate Week, ensuring the message—Solutions Are Local—echoes far and wide. Visit their Frontline Climate Justice Week here!
This event is co-sponsored by the Tishman Center.
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6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal End of the Fossil Fuel Era -1st session-
September 22, 2024
Time: 8:30 AM - 4 PM
The New School Starr Foundation Hall, University Center (Room UL102 63 Fifth Avenue, NY)
The International Rights of Nature Tribunal will convene at Climate Week in New York to address the global challenges posed by the fossil fuel industry. This session aims to amplify the Rights of Nature as a crucial tool in defending life on Earth – featuring testimony from frontline community representatives and expert panels. The Tribunal will scrutinize the fossil fuel industry’s impacts on biodiversity and BIPOC communities and advocate for a just and clean transition by keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Join us in this pivotal moment as we pave the way toward COP30 in Brazil.
This event is co-sponsored by the Tishman Center.
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Climate Science Fair
September 21-23, 2024
Time: 10 AM - 7 PM
The High Line, New York, NY
The Fair welcomes scientists, farmers, foodies, artists, thinkers, nature lovers, and the curious of all ages to Emerson Collective’s 2024 Climate Science Fair. We’re coming together to show that big, bold, optimistic climate ideas are not just possible but already making a difference. Bring your sense of wonder to the High Line for a fair that promises to inform and inspire all of us to discover our inner citizen* scientist.
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Climate Justice Summit: People Deliver
September 22, 2024
Time: 9 AM-9 PM
The Forum at Columbia University
601 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, USA
This summit is a powerful convening of climate justice leaders from around the world, focusing on global collaboration and knowledge exchange. This summit aims to catalyze global collaboration to drive progress on climate justice, particularly across the following themes: Climate Governance and Inclusive Decision-Making, Sustainable Cities and Food Systems, Loss and Damage, and Nature-based Solutions. Discussions will feature frontline communities, land defenders, international policymakers, researchers, funders, and BIPOC climate justice leaders.
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Saving Lives in Puerto Rico’s Next Hurricane: Immediate Energy Security for the Most Vulnerable
September 24, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The People’s Forum (320 West 37th St, NY)
Join a panel discussion and fundraiser to benefit AMANESER 2025, a Puerto Rican environmental justice organization that works to bring rooftop solar systems to the people and communities that need it the most. These affordable, small-scale systems are designed to meet the critical needs of refrigeration, lighting and medical equipment during Puerto Rico's frequent blackouts. With a very limited budget and operating only by word-of-mouth, AMANESER has trained community groups in more than ten municipalities to install and maintain these systems, providing energy security and fostering self-reliance. As Puerto Rico faces what could be a record-breaking hurricane season, join us to learn more about and support AMANESER’s life-saving work! All proceeds to benefit AMANESER 2025. Want to support but unable to attend? Click here to donate.
Co-sponsored by: Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora, El Puente, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, Diaspora Pa'lante Collective, and Sierra Club Puerto Rico
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In-Person: Women on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels and Implementing Solutions
September 25, 2024
Time: 4:45 PM - 8 PM
UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA
During this in-person forum, women leaders in all their diversity will come together to share comprehensive and intersectional approaches and strategies to stop fossil fuel extraction, accelerate community-led climate solutions, and lead a Just Transition grounded in a climate justice framework. Critical topics include fossil fuel resistance; food sovereignty; forest protection; gender-responsive climate policies; Indigenous and human rights; Rights of Nature; strategic preparations for COP29 and COP30; uplifting care economies; community-led solutions; and transformative policies for our collective future. Women are leading the way!
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Climate, Comedy & Cocktails Network + Celebrate AAPI Climate Activists
September 25, 2024
Time: 6 PM - 8:30 PM
100 Washington St. 1st Fl, NYC, China Institute of America
A dynamic evening celebrating the AAPI artists involved in the ALL ARTS/PBS documentary series "Climate Artists" with insightful discussion, comedy from rising star Jiaoying Summers, climate-conscious food & cocktails, and an exclusive world-premiere screening!
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Virtual: Transforming Global Economies: From Extraction to Regeneration in a Just Transition
September 26, 2024
Time: 11AM EST
Virtual (Online Zoom)
During this event, global women leaders will spotlight a Just Transition and economic models, solutions, and frameworks based on community-led solutions, feminist economics, Indigenous knowledge, beyond growth economies, and ancient concepts of reciprocity with the Earth and the web of life. The event discussion will focus on the growing emergence of socially just, place-based, and ecologically enhancing economic models that provide a clear blueprint for a thriving future for all.
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What's New at the Tishman Center
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In Case You Missed the Exciting News!
Read the full letter from the Tishman Center's director, Dr. Ana Baptista
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We are honored to have our beloved Michelle DePass as the new Chair of our Center's Advisory Committee. From 2013 to 2018, Michelle served as Dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School and Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, which she re-launched in 2015, reinvigorated The New School's commitment to sustainability rooted in social justice and community collaboration. She has since served as a Senior Advisor to the Tishman Center. Read Michelle's fuller bio and learn about the esteemed members of our Advisory Committee here.
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This fellowship opportunity is for all degree-seeking students at The New School. The Fellowship will support students who wish to co-develop a project, research, or body of work related to environmental or climate justice, climate change, or sustainability with the Tishman Environment and Design Center. The fellow will also work with the center to implement an environmental justice archive and receive group mentoring sessions during their fellowship tenure. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Kamrin Harbin (harbink@newschool.edu).
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Join Our Campaign #EJisDemocracy
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This Climate Week, join us as we launch the #EJisDemocracy campaign, a powerful call to action highlighting the intersection of Environmental Justice and democratic values. From engaging events like “A Better World is Ahead” presented by Grist, Mother Jones, Rewiring America, and the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School, to collaborations with grassroots climate justice organizations like Climate Justice Alliance and UPROSE, it is time to continue amplifying Environmental Justice stories that too often go unheard. Follow along, share your stories, and be part of a movement that demands justice, equity, and true democratic participation in climate action. Stay tuned for more updates and ways to get involved!
Make your voice heard because Environmental Justice is democracy.
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