The following projects have been awarded a Green Grant from the Office of Sustainability.

Climate Change Education En Español

Project leader: Tania Goicoechea, Program Manager (Steinhardt, Wallerstein Collaborative For Urban Environmental Education & Sustainability)

This interdisciplinary project aims to address the inequities in climate change education by creating an interactive digital hub that will host resources in Spanish and/or resources designed with Latinx communities in mind. The grantees will also host roundtable discussions with educators and other community members to gather feedback on the design and use of the online hub, as well as to create a space to share resources and ideas.

Natures at the Water’s Edge: Teaching Tools For Urban Sustainability

Project co-leaders: Mary Killilea, Faculty (CAS, Biology and Environmental Studies), Katie Paolantonio, Faculty (CAS, Biology), Anne Rademacher, Faculty (CAS, Environmental Studies and Anthropology), and Karen Holmberg, Faculty (Gallatin)

This project will bring together an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students from NYU and Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich (LMU) to investigate the social and ecological dimensions of New York City’s shifting coastline. A team of professors and students will produce an educational module that will highlight NYC as a case study to investigate key issues in sustainability along urban coastal systems that can be used in classrooms around the world.

 

The Green Operas

Project leaders: Randall Eng, Faculty (Tisch, Graduate Musical Theater Writing)

This project is a collaboration between three departments in Tisch (the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Design For Stage and Film, and Open Arts) and the Brooklyn-based opera company The American Opera Project (AOP). Composer and librettist students are creating six short operas that illustrate the impact of climate change on the environment and celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.

Learn more about the Green Grants program and projects currently underway. 

Green Grant awards are for up to $20,000 and are for projects that address the university’s operational performance, foster environmental literacy and community engagement, advance applied research and design, expand sustainability learning opportunities, and demonstrate the viability of best practices and technologies for sustainability.