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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Meet our 2020 Aronson Fellow, Daniela Lam
Meet our 2020 Aronson Fellow, Daniela Lam

Earlier this year, the Tishman Center put out a call for applications for our inaugural Arnold and Shelia Aronson Fellowship. The fellowship is meant to support students that are working towards pressing sustainability and environmental justice issues. Our first fellow is Daniela Lam, a Parsons student that is interested in using design to address issues of affordable housing, forced migration due to climate change and how marginalized communities will adapt to a rapidly changing world where floods, fires, hurricanes and other natural disasters (strengthened by climate change) will create even more uncertainty about where people can live.

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2020 Student Awards Update Part 1
2020 Student Awards Update Part 1

We are facing a climate crisis and the threat it poses to life on Earth, frontline, fenceline and marginalized communities (including Women, Indigenous, People of Color and Global South communities) are among the foremost challenges of our time. Globally seas are rising, coastlines are eroding, weather patterns are changing, droughts and forest fires are increasing and species extinction is rising exponentially. Solutions to the climate crisis vary among stakeholders from across disciplines.

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Video Interview Series 04: Interview with Dr. Nicky Sheats
Video Interview Series 04: Interview with Dr. Nicky Sheats

For the fourth part of the Tishman Center’s video interview series, we spoke to Dr. Nicky Sheats, director of the Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy at Thomas Edison State University and a key member of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (NJEJA). He is also a lawyer and longtime advocate for environmental justice.

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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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Hurricanes & Fires in a Pandemic: The Climate Crisis is here
Hurricanes & Fires in a Pandemic: The Climate Crisis is here

As news comes in about the upcoming elections, set against a backdrop of a pandemic, we are now also bearing witness to two natural disasters in the United States: horrifying fires on the West Coast have killed at least 33 people and displaced thousands of others and, although firefighters are now starting to make progress against several of the wildfires, the dry conditions could still change the course of this step towards controlling the situation.

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Video Interview Series 03: Susan Blaustein on how to Adapt to Changing Times and Global Issues Affecting Women 
Video Interview Series 03: Susan Blaustein on how to Adapt to Changing Times and Global Issues Affecting Women 

Our third conversation in the interview series was with Susan Blaustein, the Executive Director of WomenStrong International, a community of organizations across the globe that focuses empowering women and girls. We spoke with Susan about how climate impacts affect women, inequalities that have stemmed from COVID-19 among other things. We hope you all enjoy this episode and please share your feedback with us.

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Is this America? Reimaging the City in the Age of Coronavirus
Is this America? Reimaging the City in the Age of Coronavirus

The Urban Systems Lab is proud to announce the launch of Resilience, a new quarterly publication. As cities around the world face unprecedented challenges, we invite submissions from designers, scientists, architects, students, activists and artists exploring a just and equitable response, and how new and progressive approaches to design, urban planning, city governance, climate justice and activism, as well as decision making can be reimagined. We are particularly interested in articles, stories, media and artworks concerned with examples of participatory decision making, the role of climate and racial justice in the upcoming local and national elections, and the role design and science can and should play in imagining the future of cities. What is a resilient and equitable vision for cities post-Covid? How has COVID-19 changed organizing? How do we design for restorative justice, and build resilience to both climate extremes and future health crises?

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Video Interview Series 02: Maria Lopez-Nuñez on Lessons from COVID-19 for the Climate Crisis and Environmental Justice
Video Interview Series 02: Maria Lopez-Nuñez on Lessons from COVID-19 for the Climate Crisis and Environmental Justice

For 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.

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Video Interview Series 01: Leslie Velasquez on Inequity, Covid-19 and EJ
Video Interview Series 01: Leslie Velasquez on Inequity, Covid-19 and EJ

We 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.

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Gen Z and the Pandemic
Gen Z and the Pandemic

We are at a critical time in our history and culture as a result of the spread of COVID 19. Every living generation is deeply impacted by the spread of this virus and the havoc that is is causing in our society, personal and professional lives. However there is one generation that is at a critical phase in its transition from student to entering the workforce and that is Generation Z (Gen Z). The study that we are conducting seeks to answer the questions of: “How does COVID 19 impact several areas in our society (including) Education, Work and Therapeutic Outcomes for Gen Z?”

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Apply for the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Fellowship
Apply for the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Fellowship

The Tishman Center is excited to announce the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Fellowship. The fellowship is designed to support student learning and practice at the Tishman Center. The Aronson Fellowship seeks to provide financial support to students who are, through their studies, research, or practice, finding solutions to the most pressing sustainability challenges facing the world today. Fellows will advance the mission of the Tishman Center and delve deeply into design, policy and environmental justice approaches intended to address the climate and equity crises.

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Strategic Plan 2020-2023
Strategic Plan 2020-2023

It is our pleasure to share our new three-year strategic plan, which was completed early this summer. Tishman Center staff worked with an outside evaluator to streamline and update the goals and outcomes from our previous plan while looking to make our work more comprehensive. We also worked with key stakeholders across our community, including our affiliated faculty to refine our goals and measurements for the new plan.

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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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An Interview with Beau Bree Rhee
An Interview with Beau Bree Rhee

In an art & design school, we (myself included) are tactile creatures that are interested in being seduced by beautiful and wonderful materials. Materials have been a way for me in Sustainable Systems to tap into that innate curiosity and generate a deep wonder towards our natural world. This is the first step towards generating a real personal connection with the students to the aims of the course Sustainable Systems. That is home base: reverence & wonder for our natural world. There’s so much doom & gloom and information around climate change these days; it’s easy for people to feel overwhelmed and shut down. But I think once you have awe, you’re able to work through the darkness.

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Seven years after Rana Plaza
Seven years after Rana Plaza

April 24th marked the seventh anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh. At least 1,134 people died in seconds when the building came down on them, while another 2,500 were injured. Most of the lost were garment workers, young women around the same age as the fashion students I teach at Parsons. Since then, each anniversary has been marked by Fashion Revolution, a grassroots campaign initiated by Orsola de Castro and Carry Somers. Numerous other initiatives were founded to support impacted workers and their families.

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Tishman Center Student Award for Environmental Justice and Equity
Tishman Center Student Award for Environmental Justice and Equity

In light of all the tumult happening this semester, the Tishman Center felt a need to support environmental justice and equity work of students across the university. We put out a call for applications in April of 2020 and are proud to present the fourteen projects that we decided to support below. These projects represent almost all of the colleges across The New School and embody the transdisciplinary approach that both the university and the Tishman Center embarace as the best way to solve the issues of our time.

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