Tag: Activism

Green Grant Update: The V,OID

by Sophie Jones

Screenshot of zine
Screenshot from The V,OID’s first zine, “FACILITATE DON’T DOMINATE,” a guide to community facilitation.

The V,OID (Volunteers, Organized in Disorder) is a group of volunteers working to emphasize community-based responses to the climate crisis and to democratize environmental education. The V,OID is creating educational materials including a website, a podcast, accessible recommended literature, a zine series, a calendar of relevant events, and a forum for online communication. We believe that sustainable living is a natural product of tight knit, educated, and empowered communities. We are building an example of this from the ground up. We believe this model of a climate group is different and necessary in that it is an example of ecological thriving in the Anthropocene.  Read more

#GreenGraduates: Featuring Raunak Shrestha

The Green Graduate series is a collective of interviews and conversations with environmentally-minded and eco-conscious NYU graduates. As these students move on to the workforce, graduate programs, and other opportunities, we are struck with how different the world seems today than it did a few months ago. Our hope with this series is to inspire, motivate and most importantly, honor the class of 2020. 

Raunak on a mountain

Throughout his four years of college, Raunak Shrestha has seen many victories, large and small, towards making NYU Abu Dhabi a greener campus. 

As a first-year, Raunak joined the student interest group, Ecoherence, which works to promote on-campus sustainability through efforts like increasing student awareness and pushing the school to adopt more environmentally conscious policies.

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Green Grant Update: Environmental Justice Curriculum

by Kiersten Blake and Alexia Leclercq

Alexia and KierstenNew York City, our shared city, has a gap in environmental education programming, namely a lack of focus on environmental justice education. We decided to co-author and implement an environmental and climate justice curriculum at the High School for Teaching and the Professions (HSTP) in the Bronx. Our project-based curriculum covers topics such as environmental and climate justice, sustainable and equitable land use, public and climate health, and global effects, and was created with teacher, student, expert, and community-based organizational input to reflect on the multidimensional nature of the climate crisis from an interdisciplinary and social justice viewpoint.

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Announcing the March 2020 Green Grant Recipients

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.

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10 Actions For a VIRTUAL Earth Month

virtual earth month 2020

As we practice social distancing and find ways to reach out and check in with our neighbors, we are being called to consider how our actions affect the most vulnerable among us; is that not the very same collective action the climate crisis demands?

To that end, recent reports have examined how social distancing due to the spread of the coronavirus may have unexpected consequences for climate change. Many of the actions people are taking during this time from reducing air travel to consuming less could significantly reduce one’s carbon footprint.

Though in-person gatherings in honor of Earth Day at 50 have been cancelled or postponed, there are still ways to mark this occasion even in self-isolation. Here are 10 things you can start doing during this unique moment to stay healthy and safe while honoring the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and committing to a more sustainable life now and into the future. Read more