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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
Read MoreFor the second part of the Tishman Center’s video interview series, we would like to highlight Maria Lopez-Nuñez. As the Deputy Director of Organizing and Advocacy at the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) in Newark, NJ, Maria is an environmental justice activist deeply rooted in the Ironbound community.
Read MoreWe want to highlight the work of those looking to create positive change in the environmental and climate justice spaces and to share how we can support and elevate them; therefore we will be sharing their stories in the form of short interviews. Our first featured interview is with Leslie Velasquez, the Environmental Justice Program Coordinator at El Puente, a Brooklyn-based social justice and arts non-profit.
Read MoreBefore we start, I want you to do a thought experiment. Think about the images you see on news coverage when there is a heat wave in a city (when it is about 95 F/ 35 C for a few days). What immediately comes to mind? Who do you picture?
Read MoreHere are some of the things you can't find during a pandemic: toilet paper, hand sanitizer, N95 masks, Nintendo Switches. As a kid growing up in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx in the late '80s and early '90s, fresh air was a commodity we couldn't find either. No pandemic required.
Read MoreEarlier 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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