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In light of recent disheartening news, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Chevron Doctrine—severely restricting the EPA and other federal agencies from protecting our environment and public health—it's essential to find and share stories of hope and resilience. One such story comes from Darryl Molina Sarmiento, the 2024-2026 EJ Disrupt Design Fellow and Executive Director of Communities for a Better Environment (CBE).
Read MoreWith the rise in violence and anti-Asian sentiment in the United States and other places, we want our community members that are of Asian and Pacific Islander descent to know that we at the Tishman Center stand in solidarity with you and strongly condemn any attacks against people based on race and/or national origin. We, as a center, want to express our support and share resources that can help people understand the issues around Anti-Asian sentiment and ways to push back against it. In the face of white supremacy, the best strategy is work together and towards freedom and safety for us all. Please let us know if you would like to add to this list at tedc@newschool.edu
Read MoreOn March 26, 2021, Pratt and the New School hosted their first collaborated event which is part of the Communities Beyond Crisis speaker series. In this event titled “Participatory Action Research as a Transformative Pathway”, speaker Dayna Cunningham from MIT's CoLab answers important questions about why PAR is necessary for crisis management.
Read MoreAssistant Director Mike Harrington participated in a virtual roundtable that was co-sponsored with the Urban Systems Lab (USL). The panel featured USL Director Timon MacPhearson along with former Environmental Studies Chair Alan McGowan, Parsons faculty Ana Fisyak, Resilience quarterly contributor Jimmy Pan.
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 MoreWe need to band together as a community more than ever to make sure that the staff of these organizations are able to support themselves during these times of uncertainty. We have posted donation links below to organizations that we work with and that we are happy to offer support. Please let us know by emailing us at tedc@newschool.edu if there are other organizations that we can add to the list and we are happy to update it.
Read MoreLIC Relief was founded March 13, 2020 by Kelly Craig and Patrick Thompson. They called upon local civic, religious and business organizations to work together to alleviate food insecurity needs in Western Queens neighborhoods and surrounding areas due to the Covid-19 crisis. Our model is two-pronged, meal distribution in partnership with local restaurants and operating a dry goods food collection site.
Read MoreIn light of the novel coronoavirus and adhering to The New School’s response, The Tishman Center will be postponing, altering or cancelling a number of our events in April, including our Earth Week programming. We will provide updates about what we will have in lieu of our regular programming, but we feel that it is in the best interest of everyone to avoid hosting events with large groups of people until it is safe to do so. In the words of the Climate Justice Alliance, “ [The novel] Coronavirus is here and is a litmus test for how the climate crisis will destabilize markets, open opportunity for disaster capitalism, disrupt global supply chains, and expose inadequate or failing systems like our healthcare system.”
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