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Climate Week 2025 Keynote Event
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School this Climate Week 2025, as we continue our year-long celebration honoring two decades of our mission-driven work bringing together research and action to tackle the root causes of climate and environmental injustice within and beyond The New School.
ONLINE | Developing Cumulative Impacts Permitting Protections: Policy Design, Decision Points, and Lessons Learned from a State-by-State Review
This Climate Week, the Tishman Environment and Design Center invites you to a webinar where we will share key findings from a first-of-its-kind policy review and database designed to support the integration of cumulative impacts into state environmental permitting frameworks.
New Article Co-Authored by the Tishman Center
The Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice (CRCJ) released Volume 2, which includes an article "Climate Justice Futures: Carbon Management Risks and Alternatives," which examines the complex and often contested relationship between carbon removal strategies and climate justice. The article is co-authored by CRCJ Advisory Board member Dr. Ana Baptista, Director of the Tishman Environment & Design Center, along with a team of leading researchers
New Book Release & Recommended Reading
Featuring brief essays on 101 key terms by scholars, artists, and activists from around the world and across disciplines, Power Shift offers an expansive, kaleidoscopic guide to the history of petromodernity, recent technological and social developments, and pathways to new energy futures.” Dr. Ana Isabel Baptista, Assistant Professor at The New School and Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, contributes the chapter “Solidarity: How can solidarity catalyze energy democracy?”
Newly Released: The Just Returns Project, Clean Investments Real Climate Impact
We invite you to examine and share The Just Returns Project. This research series reflects findings across three elements that are key to understanding how capital and resources flow—or not—to grassroots environmental justice and climate justice organizations:
Part One: Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is: How to Make Your Investments Climate-Justice Aligned
Part Two: Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is: How to Make Your Grantmaking Practices Climate-Justice Aligned
Part Three: Voicing the Power of Climate Justice: Insights on the Impact and Scale of Grassroots Initiatives. Dr. Jennifer Santos Ramirez, Senior Researcher at the Tishman Center, authored this report.
EJ Disrupt Design Fellowship Highlight
The Tishman Center community is honored to uplift Equality in Flames, a newly released report by our EJ Disrupt Design Fellows, Khara Jabola-Carolus of Roots Reborn and Nadezna Ortega of Tagnawa for Maui. This visionary work explores gender-just design solutions to the overlapping crises of wildfires, immigration struggles, and patriarchal violence.
Catalyzing Clean Energy & Climate Justice in a Time of Crisis
On Earth Day 2025, we kicked off the Tishman Environment and Design Center’s 20th anniversary with a powerful keynote conversation featuring visionary leaders advancing community-led environmental and energy justice.
At a time when frontline communities continue to push for bold, equitable climate solutions, this conversation explored how we sustain momentum and build power for a just, clean energy transition.
ej disrupt design community stories
This past April, the Tishman Center’s Environmental Justice Disrupt Design (EJDD) Fellowship, comprising of 18 environmental leaders and 16 community organizations across seven U.S. states, Hawai’i, and three Indigenous territories—gathered in Borikén (Puerto Rico) as EJ fellows launched Year Two of their work, designing in their core groups and deepening their collective practice.
We are honored to share our recap video, gratitude report, and blog post, which were born out of this retreat.
EcoMadres Investigates: Plastic, Pollution & Our Health
This recent discussion addresses the hidden health threats posed by everyday plastic exposure, particularly in overburdened communities, and examines the false solutions being promoted by the plastics industry.
New Report
Authored by Dr. Jennifer Santos Ramirez, Senior Researcher at the Tishman Environment and Design Center. This report affirms the vital role that grassroots environmental and climate justice organizations play in advancing intersectional solutions across food systems, legacy pollution, economic equity, energy transitions, and more.
In the News
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New Report
Three years ago, the Community First Fund (CFF), a funder intermediary established by two women of color, embarked on a mission to ensure that the federal government was held accountable to the Justice40 mandate and that federal funding would flow to the groups that needed it the most. In 2022, they asked the Tishman Center to assist in identifying the challenges and gaps in federal infrastructure funding for local EJ organizations and the communities they represent.
Roundup of Our Center’s 2024 Highlights
The Center is grateful to our EJ movement partners, who have worked alongside over the years to fight for climate and environmental justice. We are committed to safeguarding environmental justice through a shifting political landscape in 2025 and beyond.
It’s a wrap! Check out the highlights here.
About us
Our Mission: The Tishman Center is a collaborative community of practice that leverages research, policy, and design in accordance with the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing. We bring together research and action to tackle the root causes of climate and environmental injustice and commit to change in higher education practices within and beyond The New School.
Our Vision: We envision a future of environmental justice- a world that is free from racism, in balance with nature, with care and respect for all beings.
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