September Membership Meeting: Come Learn About the EJNYC Report & How You Can Help Advance Environmental Justice in NYC

Our September Membership Meeting will be on Saturday, September 13th from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM at the Most Worshipful Prince Hall, located at 454 West 155th Street. With special guests from the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, we will be discussing New York City’s EJNYC Report and how you can get involved in helping the city develop its EJNYC Plan, which – with your involvement – will become a comprehensive citywide action plan to address the issues identified in the report. After the meeting, we encourage you to join us as we canvass select parks to raise awareness of and support for them (see below). RSVP

Northern Manhattan Parks Canvassing: Help Raise Awareness & Support

Whether providing cooling benefits in the face of extreme heat or absorbing runoff from flash flooding, parks and green spaces are a vital tool to help lessen the impacts of climate change on a community. That is why – as part of our Our Parks, Our Backyard initiative – we and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund are going to be canvassing in select parks on Saturday, Sept. 13th from 1:15-3:15 PM. We will be visiting Jackie Robinson, St. Nicolas, and Riverside Parks to engage Northern Manhattan park users to raise awareness of our parks, particularly when it comes to climate change and parks investment. We are meeting at the Most Worshipful Prince Hall, located at 454 West 155th Street, right after our September Membership Meeting (see above). Staff members will accompany volunteers to each of these three parks and provide hands-on training along the way. RSVP

Stolen Futures: A Webinar on What the Movement Lost with Federal Funding Cuts

Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 12:00 PM as WE ACT and NRDC share details about Stolen Futures, a collaboration featuring new tools tracking the widespread, harmful impacts to communities due to the Trump administration’s clawbacks of critical grants and funds designated to advance environmental and climate justice. Speakers will include University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability Associate Professor of Environmental Justice (and former WE ACT staffer) Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome, PhD; People for Community Recovery Executive Director Cheryl Johnson; Duwamish River Community Coalition Executive Director Paulina López; PODER Resilience Program Coordinator & Organizer Carlos Pinon; West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Environmental Justice Programs Manager Janelle Wright; NRDC Government Affairs Advocacy Associate Jada Larson; and our own Tali Natter. RSVP

Get Ready for Climate Week!

Climate Week NYC runs from Sept. 21-28 and, as always, there's a lot going on! Our West Harlem Environmental Justice Tour, which was featured in City Limits' roundup of Climate Week events, has already sold out, but we just announced a Climate Justice Happy Hour on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. Click here to learn about all the events we are participating in along with other events that may be of interest.

Uptown Chats: Flooding in New York City

Jaron and Lonnie talk to Tyler Taba, Director of Resilience at the Waterfront Alliance, about the different types of flooding that impact communities across New York City and what is being done to reduce this threat. Listen

We all deserve personal care and beauty products that are safe - free from cancer-causing and other harmful chemicals - no matter where we live, work, or shop. Click here to tell Congress to support the 2025 Safer Beauty Bill Package!

The temperatures may have cooled this week, but extreme heat is still the deadliest impact of climate change, and communities of color bear the brunt of it. Click here to urge New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to call for a vote to implement a Cool Pavement Pilot, which will prioritize installation of cool pavement technologies in neighborhoods that face the highest risk of harm from extreme heat – like ours!

Support WE ACT: Tickets & Sponsorships Available for Our Gala

Tickets are now on sale for WE ACT’s 2025 Annual Gala on Tuesday, October 14th from 6:00-9:00 PM at 583 Park Avenue (at the corner of 63rd Street). We will be honoring environmental justice champions (see our honorees below) and celebrating our ongoing work for a more equitable future. You can reserve your tickets, become a Gala Sponsor, and purchase an ad in our Gala Journal. Contact Gianna Folz at [email protected] for more information.

MEET OUR 2025 HONOREES:

THANKS TO OUR 2025 SPONSORS:

Help Build the Movement: Become a Cecil Corbin-Mark Fellow

Applications are now open for our Cecil Corbin-Mark Fellowship. This fellow will be part of our National Organizing Department, based in our New York City office, and focusing on environmental health and the energy sector. This is a great opportunity to help build our movement at a time when it is under constant attack. Click here to learn more about our previous fellows and click here to download the job description.

Get Bulbs: Register for the Daffodil Project

Sign up to reserve free daffodil bulbs and native seed to plant in your community as part of New Yorker's for Parks 2025 Daffodil Project. They will be distributing bulbs in Harlem from 12:30-2:00PM on Saturday, Sept. 20th at A. Philip Randolph Square. Learn More