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• Remarks: Resilient Cities

  Michelle DePass' opening remarks at the event Resilient Cities.
• Promotional Materials: Earth Week 2016 Posters

  2016 Earth Week Posters for Irresistible Resistance Symposium on April 20th 2016, TEDC Faculty Grant Recipient Symposium on April 18th 2016 and Earth Week interactive.
• Promotional Materials: Green Jobs and Social Justice Poster

  Poster for 2016 Earth Week events related to green jobs and social justice. They include the Student and Alumni Networking Event and the Panel Discussion with Leaders in the Field.
• Promotional Materials: Earth Week 2020 Events Poster

  Poster for series of Earth Week 2020 events from April 20 - 23 with event blurbs and logistical information. Includes poster for Earth Week 2020 keynote Prescriptions for a Climate Emergency: A Conversation on National Climate Change Platforms. The panelists include: Andres Jiminez- Citizens Climate Lobby, Cecilia Martinez- CEED, Elizabeth Yaempierre- Climate Justice Alliance, Jessica Eckdish- Blue Green Alliance, Tamara Toles O’Laughlin-350.org and TBA- Sunrise Movement.
• Promotional Materials: Farming for Justice Event

  Flyer for Farming for Justice and Recognition in Europe, an event, that talks about efforts to conserve agricultural biodiversity and farmers' movements in Western Europe. Under the banner of peasant, local and/or organic agriculture, through the reintroduction of traditional varieties, the creation of new varieties using farm-based knowledge, and the redesign of innovation models, individual farmers are connected to collective movements demanding justice and a more efficient agricultural model. Event speakers were Dr. Brendan Coolsaet, Associate Professor and Master’s Programmes Director, European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL), Lille Catholic University, France as the scheduled speaker. The talk is in conjunction with Reynolds’ Social Justice in Sustainable Food Systems course.
• Promotional Materials: Flyer for Indigenous Resistance & the Crisis of the Mother Earth - Paths to Climate Justice

  Flyer with a list of speakers for Indigenous Resistance & the Crisis of the Mother Earth - Paths to Climate Justice, a 2019 Earth Week event.
• Promotional Materials: Flyer for Indigenous Resistance & the Crisis of the Mother Earth - Paths to Climate Justice

  Flyer for Indigenous Resistance & the Crisis of the Mother Earth: Paths to Climate Justice, a 2019 Earth Week event.
• Promotional Materials: Flyer for Sustainable Cities Club

  Flyer for student show case by Sustainable Cities Club on pathways to a low-carbon future.
• Promotional Materials: Communities Beyond Crisis; Magdalena: a Threatened River of Music, Knowledge and Culture

  Poster of event: Magdalena: a Threatened River of Music, Knowledge and Culture. Presented by the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Pratt Disaster Resilience Network (PDRN) and Bomba Estereo
• Presentation: Lake Superior Our Helper

  Holding slides of the event Lake Superior Our Helper: Stories from Batchewanaung Anishinabek Fisheries . This event was presented by the Food Studies Program and the Tishman Environment and Design Center.
• Event: Photos from Centennial Decolonize Academia Panel

  Photos of Centennial Decolonize Academia event.
• Event: Ecology and Sovereignty: Native and Indigenous Perspectives Transcending Boundaries Images

  Photos of Ecology and Sovereignty: Native and Indigenous Perspectives Transcending Boundaries, part of 2017 Earth Week.The Tishman Environment and Design Center convened Native and Indigenous artists, activists, and thought leaders for a powerful conversation highlighting the importance of traditional ecological knowledge. The event emphasized the need to transcend imposed boundaries—of thought, geography, and medium—in order to foster socially just approaches to environmental issues.
• Event: Images from Textile Scrap Workshop: Design Challenge

  Photos of Textile Scrap Workshop: Design Challenge. In partnership with the New York City Department of Sanitation, Materials for the Arts (MFTA) launched a textile scrap reuse initiative, inviting Parsons students to develop creative design solutions. Coordinated by the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab and the Tishman Environment and Design Center, students participated in an interactive, hands-on workshop at the MFTA warehouse in Long Island City, where they explored and prototyped design ideas using a wide array of reclaimed textile scraps and materials. Part of 2017 Earth Day events.
• Event: Student and Alumni Mixer Photos

  The Tishman Environment and Design Center partnered with the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management program and the Environmental Studies program to host the annual Earth Week Mixer. All New School students, alumni, and faculty working in environment and sustainability-related fields were invited to attend. Mark Chambers, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, joined as the guest of honor and spoke with students about the importance of inclusive climate action. Part of 2017 Earth Day events.
• Event: What Does Trump Mean for Global Climate Change?

  Climate change experts gathered to discuss the Trump administration’s potential withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and to reflect on the Obama administration’s accomplishments in climate policy. The discussion centered on recent climate science research, the stance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and anticipated policy shifts under the Trump administration. Photos of this panel, co-organized with The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, and part of 2017 Earth Day events.
• Event: Sustainability in Action

  The Tishman Center kicked off Earth Week by tabling in the University Center. Students, faculty, and staff pledged to take sustainable actions in their daily lives, learned more about clubs on campus, played a game to learn how to properly sort waste, and interacted with a student-designed virtual reality project illustrating the present mass extinction crisis (Iris Qu, MFA Design and Technology ‘17). Photos of Sustainability in Action event at the lobby of the University Center.
• Event: Sustainapalooza 2017

  Sustainapalooza is an annual event organized and led by Eugene Lang students (led by Sasha Hodson, Environmental Studies ’17) who are engaged in efforts to facilitate enhanced urban resiliency and sustainability. This year, Sustainapalooza focused on health and climate change with an emphasis on personal, ecological, and social dimensions of the issues.
• Photos: University Center Sustainability Tours

  Photos of University Center Sustainability Tours led by Erik Eibert. The Tishman Center and New School Buildings held two special Sustainability Tours of the University Center. Tour participants learned about sustainable elements of the building’s design including the green roof, grey water treatment plant, electricity cogeneration, ice storage, and non-toxic building materials. Part of 2017 Earth Day events.
• Photos: Volunteering with Sure We Can

  LEAP Entrepreneurship Club partnered with Sure We Can Recycling Center during Earth Week to collect plastic bottles and aluminum cans at The New School with the help of the Tishman Center and the Facilities team. The bottles and cans collected helped support Sure We Can’s mission to support the local community, particularly the most vulnerable residents, and promote social inclusion, environmental awareness, and economic empowerment. Tishman Center staff joined LEAP and other New School students at Sure We Can on Earth Day, April 22nd for a volunteer day.
• Photos: Beyond Polar Bears

  Photos of “Beyond the Polar Bear” Artwork Exhibit. Photos of student, faculty, and alumni work reflecting on the threat of climate change.
• Event: Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Skills Lab

  Jozef Soloff (Environmental Studies ‘16), Sasha Hodson (Environmental Studies ‘16), and Ana Remis (Environmental Studies ‘18) taught attendees how to make Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (NDSC) are an alternative solar technology. NDSC harvests sunlight with pigments taken from flora, and are cheap and easily made.
• Event: Mobilizing to March

  Photos of Mobilizing to March event at the Social Justice Hub. Part of 2017 Earth Day events.
• Photos: Street Seats

  In collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), the Design Build course of the School of Constructed Environments, taught by professors Huy Bui and Carlos Gomez de Llarena, has developed this year’s Street Seats project for the corner of 13th Street and Fifth Avenue, supported by the Tishman Center. The components of the space were constructed in-house and installed on site over the course of The New School’s Earth Week. With a generous amount of planters and movable seating, this public seating area will be an evolving space over its seven-month lifespan.
• Event: Photos of Going Beyond Green Event

  Photos of Going Beyond “Green”. Community-based participatory research led by New School faculty and students addressing the impacts of climate change and other environmental threats to community well-being and social justice. Part of 2017 Earth Day events.
• Event: Photos of Dystopia Exhibition

  Photos of Dystopia Earth Week Exhibition. Part of 2017 Earth Day events.