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Earth Month 2023 Event Hub
Earth Month 2023 Event Hub

Join 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!

You can RSVP below for all upcoming events and you can reach us at @newschoolTEDC on Twitter and @tishmancenter on Instagram.

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[RE-BLOG] Sustainability Town Hall Highlight
[RE-BLOG] Sustainability Town Hall Highlight

In recognition of Climate Week 2022, The Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC) hosted an online town hall to discuss sustainability at the New School. The format of this discussion was an attempt to bring faculty, staff, and students together to exchange knowledge and voice concerns about energy consumption and waste management. As the school aims for goals such as being “net zero” by 2050, it is essential that everyone is involved in the process of not just figuring out the when, but also the how.

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Events, Students, Climate WeekTishman CenterEvents, Sustainability at The New School, energy, waste, campus sustainability, climate weekComment
Street Futures: How Covid-19 Has Changed our Streetscapes
Street Futures: How Covid-19 Has Changed our Streetscapes

After two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, how has our conception of public space changed? Over the past two years, the citizens of metropolitan cities have minimized the use of vehicles in the streets due to the restrictions for travel and ‘stay home’ mandates. With the absence of traffic jams and parked cars, the citizens of New York occupied the streets in their own way.

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Events, Webinar, infrastructureTishman Centerearth week, covid-19, Urban design
[Re]-Watch Earth Week 2022 Videos
[Re]-Watch Earth Week 2022 Videos

Thank you to all of our guests, panelists, research assistants and colleagues that helped us have a great slate of events for April and our Earth Month programming. You can re-watch (or watch for the first time) below. We will update a couple of the videos for increased accessibility. We hope you enjoy and share these!

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Earth Week Blogs, Events, Food, infrastructure, inndigeneity, WebinarTishman Centerearth week, climate, waste, infrastructure, indigeneityComment
[RE-BLOG] Food Studies Program’s November “Food and the Public” Event Features Panel “Remembering Nach Waxman”
[RE-BLOG] Food Studies Program’s November “Food and the Public” Event Features Panel “Remembering Nach Waxman”

On November 15th the Food Studies Program’s second Fall 2021 event “Remembering Nach Waxman” brought together the wife and children of Nach Waxman in conversation with six culinary leaders to discuss Waxman’s life and contributions. Waxman founded the bookstore Kitchen Arts and Letters (KAL) in New York City in 1983, and it quickly became a crossroads for researchers, writers, chefs and home cooks alike. Patrons came in search of what would grow to be nearly 13,000 titles from around the world, from cookbooks to food histories.

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RECAP: Earth Week Keynote Speech with Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Mia Charlene White
RECAP: Earth Week Keynote Speech with Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Mia Charlene White

The 2021 Earth Week Keynote was presented by Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, policy expert, and writer and Dr. Mia White, one of our faculty at The New School and a Tishman Center Affiliated faculty member. Her work has been featured The New York Times, Washington Post, and Scientific American. Most recently she has co-edited an anthology with Dr. Katherine K. Wilkinson, “All We Can Save”. We tuned with Dr. Johnson to see how the project came about.

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2020 Faculty Grants Update, Part 1 of 4: “Whole Earth Curriculum”
2020 Faculty Grants Update, Part 1 of 4: “Whole Earth Curriculum”

In Fall ‘19, faculty grants were awarded to support four projects related to the Tishman Center’s mission. One of those projects, “Developing Milano’s ‘Whole Earth’ Curriculum” was led by Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland (Milano/EPSM Faculty), and Mindy Fullillove (Milano/Urban Policy Faculty). As part of the project, a task force was created to investigate how the New School can reexamine its curriculum with a focus on climate justice, as well as to evaluate the school’s contribution to climate justice and its role in the greater community.

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EJ, Earth Week Blogs, Events, Faculty, Faculty Grant, Teach-inTishman CenterEnvironmental Justice, CurriculumComment
Finally, Corporate Sustainability Reporting is Hitting its Stride…now What?
Finally, Corporate Sustainability Reporting is Hitting its Stride…now What?

It is true, the last four years have seen substantial environmental policy protections rolled back, there are reasons for hope. Businesses, as well as local and state governments, are seeing the bottom line benefits of data-driven ESG policies and are implementing new frameworks for comparable and transparent reporting. Though, implementing a sustainable framework into your business or organization can seem like a monumental task, know you are not alone, and there are systems to help you sift through the noise. We’ll get to that in a minute.

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Climate Week 2020 Recap
Climate Week 2020 Recap

Much like our Earth Week programming, we have had to shift our Climate Week 2020 events to all online; however, we got a great response and had around 500 plus people register to watch or participate in our events. We would like to thank everyone we worked with and that attended and hope to continue interacting with and working together with you all going forward. Please feel free to share your thoughts with us and see below for recaps and videos of all of our Climate Week events

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Recap of Online Earth Week 2020 Events
Recap of Online Earth Week 2020 Events

April is normally the busiest month for the Tishman Center, as the variety of programming focused on Earth Day that we have spent several months developing comes to life on campus. This year, however, in light of COVID-19, the Tishman Center, along with the rest of the world, had to rapidly readjust and find ways to transition towards a virtual format to ensure that we keep our community safe but still get a chance to connect.

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Faculty, Students, Webinar, Earth Week Blogs, EventsTishman CenterEarthWeek, Earth Day, indigeneity, frontline communities, Resiliency, covid-19
Earth Week 2020 Virtual Events
Earth Week 2020 Virtual Events

The Tishman Center has had to cancel our extensive Earth Month programming in light of the social distancing measures and our responsibility to provide spaces for our community. However, we believe it is crucial to still find creative ways of coming together and sharing perspectives around the moment in time we find ourselves in and how it relates to the underlying injustices that have threatened vulnerable communities before the pandemic and now becoming a threat multiplier.

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Earth Week Blogs, Events, WebinarTishman CenterEarthWeek, covid-19, Sustainability, Resiliency
oiConference: Developments in Finance and Sustainability
oiConference: Developments in Finance and Sustainability

Each session will run about 45mins long with plenty of time for Q&A. Bring your expertise and your questions to the table and learn from experts on these topics, from professionals, researchers, and activists. Participants have the opportunity to critically discuss the connections between theory and practice, between the challenges ahead and the promises of current developments (or lack thereof), and of the different kinds of work we are called upon by the multiplicity of sustainability crises. A recurring question will be whether there truly is a trade-off between profitability, risk, and considerations for the planet and people.

This webinar is the second online conference on Sustainability and Finance organized and supported by oikos International and the Harvard Extension School's Student Environmental Club.

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[Re-Post] Climate Emergency Teach-In
[Re-Post] Climate Emergency Teach-In

The Earth is facing a climate emergency. Globally, seas are rising, coastlines are eroding, weather patterns are changing, floods, droughts, and forest fires are increasing, and species extinction is rising exponentially. The climate crisis and the threat it poses to life on Earth and frontline communities are among the foremost challenges of our times. As an institution of higher education, it is essential that The New School equip students and faculty with the knowledge, skills, and capability to respond to the challenges ahead.

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"There is Nothing ‘New’ About the Green New Deal"
"There is Nothing ‘New’ About the Green New Deal"

The Green New Deal (GND) has rapidly become a prevailing topic in popular discourse. As we continue to face climate crisis, the GND platform is praised for promising a new way to imagine our future. A few weeks ago during The Tishman Center’s “Green New Deal and Environmental Justice” event during the The New School’s centennial celebration, we heard from a variety of activists and grassroots organizers

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The Goals We Already Knew: New School Sustainability Student Ludovica Martella Speaks at UN Side Panel
The Goals We Already Knew: New School Sustainability Student Ludovica Martella Speaks at UN Side Panel

When the United Nations (UN) released the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the first day of 2016, Greta had not protested outside of the Swedish Parliament yet, the world was not at 350 gigatons yet, and the United States election fever was burning. Now in 2019, a youth movement has caught fire under the pressures of rapidly declining climate conditions with little global participation or concern and has teamed up alongside climate organizations alike to document and participate in the reaction and action to the ongoing climate crisis. 

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