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We’re enjoying relatively nice weather today, but let’s not forget that our city was pummeled with three tropical storms this summer – the last of which killed more than a dozen New Yorkers – along with multiple heat waves.

Next week is Climate Week here in New York City. And we encourage you to join us for the following events:

Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 12:00 PM
Jasmine Graham will participate in a Building Energy Exchange panel discussing how environmental justice considerations will impact decision-making and planning in New York City, particularly with respect to its built environment. RSVP ([link removed])

Wednesday, Sept. 22
As part of its week-long series of virtual events, TAZO will showcase a video of Peggy Shepard explaining the need for climate justice. The video will be shared on TAZO's Instagram channel and will be introduced by celebrated singer and songwriter SZA. Follow @TAZO ([link removed]) on Instagram to see this and other climate justice content!

Thursday, Sept. 23 at 12:00 PM
Join us for a Gas Free NYC rally to demand that the New York City Council pass Intro 2317, legislation that will eliminate natural gas hookups in new construction and gut renovations. We will meet at the City Hall Park fountain (Broadway & Park Row). RSVP ([link removed])

Thursday, Sept. 23 at 1:00 PM
Peggy Shepard will speak on the New York City Mayor’s Office Climate Week panel, From Grassroots to Policy: Government Action on Environmental Justice. RSVP ([link removed])

Thursday, Sept. 23 at 6:00 PM
6:00 PM – Taylor Morton will conduct a climate justice teach-in. Join us to learn more about the movement and how you can get involved! RSVP ([link removed])

As much as we love Climate Week, we are working to achieve climate justice every week of the year. Below are some examples of how we’re raising the issue in the media. And you can get involved as well by joining our Climate Justice Working Group, which meets the fourth Wednesday of every month. Learn More ([link removed])

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WE ACT: Raising Climate Justice in the Media

Sonal Jessel was featured in a Sept. 14th CNN story on extreme heat, discussing its inequitable impacts in communities like East Harlem and the work we’re doing to address this ([link removed])

Taylor Morton talked about the intersection of the climate and housing crises in a Sept. 8th story in Atmos ([link removed])

Sonal Jessel and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Diana Hernández made the case in an Aug. 27th Op-Ed in City & State New York for increasing the funding of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to address heat health inequities ([link removed])

Sonal Jessel was quoted in an Aug. 20th New York Times article on extreme heat inequities in New York City ([link removed])

Sonal Jessel and the extreme heat inequities report we published with the NRDC this summer were featured in an Aug. 18th Inside Climate News article on heat health inequities in New York City ([link removed])

You can learn more about that extreme heat inequities report, Summer In The City: Improving Community Resilience To Extreme Summertime Heat In Northern Manhattan, and download a copy here ([link removed])

Peggy Shepard wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Daily News on Aug. 12th calling for action on the heat health inequities in East Harlem ([link removed])

Sonal Jessel was featured in a July 14th video story on heat health inequities in East Harlem and other communities in the Verge ([link removed])

Sonal Jessel was quoted in a June 17th National Geographic cover story on the impact of extreme heat around the world ([link removed])

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