Posts tagged waste
[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
[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
Report on Furniture Waste in Oakland Reveals Unexpected Findings
Report on Furniture Waste in Oakland Reveals Unexpected Findings

I want to share an emerging area of opportunity: furniture waste. A topic that resonates in its ubiquity and infamy.

For 15 months, I documented the street furniture I came across in my SF Bay Area neighborhood and was stunned by what I discovered: over 50,000 pounds of furniture within two miles of my home, of which, 89% was reusable, with about a third needing repair…

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Staff WorkTishman Centerblog, Featured Staff, wasteComment
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Environmental Justice Communities
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Environmental Justice Communities

Earlier this month, Ana Baptista, Director of the Tishman Center and Chair of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management program, gave a Congressional briefing in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental justice communities.

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Faculty, EJTishman CenterEnvironmental Justice, covid-19, cumulative impacts, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, waste, Air Pollution, Heat
The Three Sisters Sovereignty Project [Part 2]
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.

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inndigeneity, WasteTishman Centerindigeneity, waste, women