[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!

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse Panel Discussions

Hookwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change is a 42 page zine assembled by environmental activists. It outlines several problematic practices that are being marketed as environmental solutions but only serve to expand the capitalist systems that destroy the environment in the first place. The New School hosted two panel discussions regarding the topics covered in the zine.

inndigeneity, climate justiceTishman CenterNovember 10, 2021UN, hoodwinked in the hothouse, false climate solutions, carbon pricingComment

Letter from Affiliated Faculty Dr. Leonardo Figueroa Helland on Indigenous People's Day

Today, we want to emphatically recognize, enthusiastically welcome, and joyfully join the many celebrations of Indigenous Peoples' Day. Yet we also want to underline that for Indigenous Peoples and those who stand side-by-side with Indigenous struggles, every day is a day of resistance, survivance and resurgence. Every day is a day to protect and defend Indigenous communities, territories, lands and Mother Earth. Every day is a celebration of the community of life in all its relations -- a daily ceremony dedicated to regenerating the cycles of life in all their rich diversity and vitality.

inndigeneityTishman CenterOctober 26, 2021indigenous people's dayComment

2021 Earth Week Events

The Tishman Center’s 2021 Earth Week is here! This year the theme is Transitions to Climate and Social Justice. Here’s a preview of the events.

EJ, Earth Week Blogs, climate justice, Events, inndigeneityTishman CenterApril 13, 2021EarthWeekTNS, earthweek2021Comment

The Three Sisters Sovereignty Project [Part 2]

In terms of infrastructure, the Project will have a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse, which is the sisters’ first goal. Traditionally, longhouses are infrastructures in which usually more than one family, if not a whole clan would live in. Usually, longhouses are built “with pole frames and elm bark covering” but for this project, the three sisters are planning to build it with hempcrete, thanks to a collaboration with Escher Design, Inc. an architectural firm based in Dorset, Vermont. According to Alex Escher, Director of Hemp Development at Escher Design, hempcrete has several benefits which will make the 3SSP Longhouse an example of more sustainable housing. “Hemp has the fastest CO2 to biomass conversion ratio found in nature, even more than agroforestry, as well as hempcrete, which also sequesters more CO2 than is emitted during its production.

inndigeneity, WasteTishman CenterApril 15, 2020indigeneity, waste, women

The Three Sisters Sovereign Project

On November 23rd 2019, not too far from New York City, The Three Sisters Sovereignty Project was launched by three resilient Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) women: Katsitsienhawi Iakoskarewake (Tiffany Cook), Teiohontáthe Iakoskarewake (Fallan Jacobs), and Kawenniiosta Iakohthahiónni (Kawenniiosta Jock) from the Mohawk Nation of Ahkwesasne (or Akwesasne) which straddles the borders of Ontario, Quebec and northern New York

inndigeneity, WasteTishman CenterApril 8, 2020indigeneity, superfund