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When I joined the Tishman Environment and Design Center in August 2022 as a senior researcher, I knew I was in a unique position to practice action-based, community-centered research for the environmental and climate justice movement. Through my newly minted Ph.D. in public and urban policy and my dissertation research on environmental justice and participatory grantmaking, I already understood the value of community involvement in decision-making.
Read MoreCongratulations to the new cohort of Aronson Fellows!
This year, we have the pleasure of welcoming our fourth cohort. We’ll spotlight our fellows throughout the year and showcase their work during Earth Month in the Spring of 2024. We’re happy to share that this year’s fellows are…
Read More‘Rhythms of the Land,’ a multimedia documentary film, was screened during the 2023 Earth Month events at The New School. Present at the event was the director, Dr. Gail Myers, filmmaker and cultural anthropologist. The event was curated and moderated by Mike Harrington, Director of Sustainability Engagement, and Dr. Kristin Retnolds, Chair of Food Studies in the Schools for Public Engagement.
Read MoreIn the fall of 2022, the Tishman Center’s Student Awards granted funds to nine students to support their research or design work centering environmental justice; you can read about their project proposals in this blog post. We are excited to highlight the progress of some of our awardees here!
Read MoreUPDATE: Danielle Deane-Ryan is on an intergovernmental personnel assignment from The New School to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to learn from and exchange ideas with Danielle Deane-Ryan, whom we welcomed over the summer as a Senior Fellow at the Tishman Center. Ms. Deane-Ryan will provide thought leadership and guidance on strategic planning and development, as well as on federal initiatives related to environmental justice, including Justice40, Thriving Communities, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Read MoreThe Tishman Environment and Design Center invites you to join us on September 20 at 6:30 p.m. for our Keynote Climate Week Event, a dynamic panel discussion, at The New School.
Join Tishman’s Senior Fellow, Danielle Deane-Ryan, an equitable climate solutions expert and moderator of this critical conversation with esteemed panelists: Harold Mitchell from Regenesis Institute, Trenton Allen from Sustainable Capital Advisors, Maria Lopez-Nunez from Ironbound Community Corporation, Joe Evans from the Kresge Foundation, and Helen Chin from Communities First Fund; with remarks from Michelle DePass, the Tishman Center's Senior Advisor.
Read MoreWASHINGTON (August 8, 2023) – The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, the Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research at Kean University, the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (NJEJA), and the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, along with 18 environmental justice and 9 allied organizations are submitting public comments today on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed carbon pollution standards for coal and new natural gas fired power plants.
Read MoreAs you may have seen from emails and posters around campus, The New School has recently started a Demand Response program to save energy over the summer. Ashley Kossakowski, Director of Energy and Sustainability at TNS, spoke with us to clarify how DR works, why it’s important, and how it will impact members of the TNS community.
Read MoreAn article by Dr. Ana Baptista, Associate Professor and co-director of the Tishman Center, was recently published in the open-source book Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice (edited by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Sarah May).
Dr. Baptista’s chapter “Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity, and Activism” reflects on the power of Environmental Justice (EJ) tours to symbolically and concretely counteract the marginalization of communities that live in frontline EJ communities.
Read MoreRecently Dr. Ana Baptista, our Co-Director, attended a symposium with environmental justice (EJ) leaders to discuss industrial carbon removal strategies in the United States of America. There were representatives from a number of organizations, including the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, the Hip Hop Caucus, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and others. The result of the symposium was the statement that is below this message.
Read MoreMike Harrington, the Director of Sustainability Engagement here at the Tishman Center, has recently had his photo series “Has Existential Crisis” selected to be part of the Human Impacts Insittute’s Creative Climate Awards exhibit. This annual exhibit showcases climate-inspired work from artists around the world, focusing this year on the theme “Inspiring a Climate Renaissance.”
Read MoreOn April 21, 2023, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Environmental Justice entitled, Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All. He was surrounded by members of the White House Environmental Justice Council, representing environmental justice leaders from around the country. Some of these leaders were present at the 1994 signing of the first Executive Order (EO) 12892 on Environmental Justice (EJ) signed by President Clinton. The decades since that first EO was signed have demonstrated the power of the EJ movement to advance a national agenda.
Read MoreJoin us during the month of April for a number of events that will feature discussions, films, information sessions and more related to confronting the climate crisis from a lens of justice and community building. You can find out information about and register for events here. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at tedc@newschool.edu. We look forward to seeing you in April!
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Read MoreLake Superior - Our Helper is a documentary film that tells the inspiring story of the Batchewana First Nation's struggle to claim their rights over the land that has been passed down to them by their ancestors.
Read MoreDr. Ana Baptista, co-director of the Tishman Center, has recently been featured on the Resources Radio podcast with host Margaret Walls. In Episode 219, “Environmental Justice and the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution”, Ana breaks down the definition of “cumulative impacts”, why they are a particularly tough problem for overburdened communities to combat, and how environmental justice movements have successfully pushed for greater cumulative impacts legislation in recent years.
Read MoreThis year marks a pivotal moment for the Tishman Center in our nearly twenty-year history. We are very excited to announce that in December 2021, the Center was awarded a catalytic, multi-year grant to strengthen our operational, research, and communications capacity by Waverley Street Foundation. Our increased capacity will help us better meet the needs of our campus community, our Ripe for Creative Disruption Fellows, and our collaborative, action-based research.
Read MoreIn January 2023, Critical Planning published my article “Evaluating Meaningful Engagement Under Environmental Justice Mandates: A Case Study of California’s SB1000 Implementation in Santa Ana”. The article is connected to environmental justice (EJ) advocacy that fellow EJ organizers and I led in Santa Ana, CA.
Read MoreIn 2016, the Tishman Environment and Design Center created student awards to help support the work of students doing research and projects around environmental and climate justice. We are thrilled to announce the Tishman Center’s 2022-2023 Student Award grantees, nine projects carried out by students who represent a variety of colleges across the New School. These projects embody the transdisciplinary approach that both the university and the Tishman Center embrace as the best way to address the issues of our time.
Read MoreAfter decades of climate inaction, the United States has reached a turning point with the passage of multiple federal laws that provide funding for clean energy. However, environmental and climate justice activists are wary, warning that these laws may further subsidize false solutions to addressing the climate crisis. Legislation like the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act is riddled with technological and market-based approaches that further exacerbate existing vulnerabilities in environmental justice communities
Read MoreAs we enter into the fourth week of the part-time faculty strike at The New School, the staff and faculty of the Tishman Center reflect on this critical moment and what it means for us as a Center that works to build community and support social justice movements.
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