Earth Week 2021, April 19-23
Curriculum of the Anthropocene:
APRIL 20, 4:00PM [ONLINE]
Is higher education preparing students for the world that we are living in and the one that is to come? The event featured a discussion between educators about knowledge, curriculum, pedagogy and who gets to shape those concepts. This event sparked a discussion around how to frame the climate crisis in education, systemic change and community production of knowledge. The panel was moderated by 2020 Aronson Fellow Daniela Lam and feature faculty from Parsons and Milano representing different fields of study.
Keynote with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Dr. Mia Charlene White
APRIL 21, 3PM [ONLINE]
A conversation between Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Founder of Urban Ocean Lab & Co-Founder of the All We Can Save Project ) and Dr. Mia White (Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies in the Environmental Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School). Both of these women are working on creative ways to build community and solidarity in the climate space and this was surely a thought provoking conversation on how we can continue fighting for a transition towards a world that values climate and environmental justice.
"The World We Need" Book Preview Launch
APRIL 22, 5PM [ONLINE]
The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement (The New Press, April 20, 2021) captures the riveting stories and hard-won strategies from a broad cross section of pivotal environmental actions and highlights the struggles against polluting corporations and industry while featuring movements, activists, and organizations that are already working toward a positive vision of a just, regenerative society.
The World We Need provides a vivid introduction to America’s largely unsung grassroots environmental groups—often led by activists of color and the working class—valiantly fighting back in America’s so-called sacrifice zones against industries poisoning our skies and waterways and heating our planet. Collecting interviews, journalistic reports, first-person essays, and artwork, editor Audrea Lim touches on a wide range of topics, including the Keystone XL pipeline, drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and poor sanitation in rural communities and showcases the racial, socioeconomic, and cultural diversity of the modern-day environmental movement.
Nourishing Communities of Life: Indigenous Resurgence beyond Syndemic Violence & Earth Crisis
APRIL 22 6PM [ONLINE]
This panel gathered voices from diverse key projects from across Abya Yala and Turtle Island (‘the Americas’) that embody real solutions based on decolonizing communal alternatives. Indigenous communality and reciprocity forms the basis of projects to reconstitute territories of life. Such projects are real, decolonizing solutions to intersecting “syndemic” crises of health, environment/climate, food and systemic violence (including state and corporate violence). These projects (re)constitute “territories of life” rooted in land-based communal self-determination and based on the revitalization of Indigenous knowledge for Indigenous governance.
Moderated by / Moderado por:
Leonardo Figueroa Helland and Angela Martinez
Panelists/Panelistas:
• Stephanie Morningstar and Çaca Yvaire (Atakapa Ishak) Co- Directors of Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
•Neftali Reyes Mendez Oaxacan, Collective for the Defense of Territory / Colectivo Oaxaqueño por la Defensa del Territorio, Oaxaca, co-coordinator of the campaign, Communitarian Alternatives in the Defense of Territories / Alternativas Comunitarias en Defensa del Territorio
• Jose Gualinga, Kawsak Sacha “Selva Viviente/Living Forest” and “Frontera de Vida”
• ASPROCIG, Association of Fishermen, Farmers, Indigenous [Zenú/Senú & Embera] and Afrodescendant Community Development of the Bajo Sinu Cienaga Grande, Colombia. Asociación de productores para el Desarrollo Comunitario de la Ciénaga Grande del bajo Sinú, Colombia